Google Talk Review by Racer and TheGodFather

racer · Post by **racer** » Wed Aug 24, 2005 11:50 pm

After downloading and using the Google© Talk BETA, I was not very impressed. As a matter of fact, I did not find it useful at all. When I first opened it after the install, I found the design to be clean, but too ordinary, kind of like Google© is over using the main color scheme on everything they produce. From the original Google© search engine to the GMAIL BETA, and now the Google© Talk BETA, it all looks the same. For the size of the program, which is around 1 Megabyte, it using about 10 Megabytes of resources, which in my opinion is outragious. Although the voice quality is quite good, I feel it is trying to be too much like Skype©. The only thing that is missing is a multi-user conference, if it had that, it would be an exact copy of Skype©. The only other thing, besides the quality of the sound, is that there are none of those anoying emoticons(smilies).

Screenshot of main window and a chat window.

Screenshots and 1st Draft by TheGodFather
Revised and posted by Racer

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 2:53 am

I like it. It's simple and isn't bloated like MSN Messenger or any other IM's. How much resources do MSN, Yahoo, and Skype take up? :\

radar · Post by **radar** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 12:31 pm

at current MSN is taking up 25,052 bytes of my memory compared to googletalk which is living in the system tray at the moemnt is taking up about 1/5th of that with 5,200.

racer · Post by **racer** » Thu Aug 25, 2005 3:02 pm

on mine....google talk was taking up 10000.....but you see...google talk is less than 1 meg in size.....which is insane.....skype for example uses 15000...and it has alot more features...so whats up with that