ObjectDock versus RocketDock
Saturday, March 22nd, 2008Occasionally I get a bit obsessive compulsive about new applications and will run one on my laptop and another on the desktop to better compare them. Lately I’ve been comparing Stardock’s freeware ObjectDock to open source RocketDock.
Both get high marks for doing what they’re supposed to do, which is be a Mac-esque dock application for Windows. In terms of look and feel, RocketDoc is a little closer to the Mac version I think.
That said, I’m going to stick with ObjectDock for one simple reason: It always works. RocketDock has a nasty habit of not popping up after an hour to two have gone by. This gets to be very frustrating very quickly. A good dock app can soon become an indispensable part of one’s daily desktop routine. And a broken dock breaks the routine.