Biiig contest! Test ur Mac NOW!

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Ok! The game:

Try to open as much apps as you can. They all must be running (so apps that are stuck don't count). The background apps, systemapps and/or invisible apps don't count either.

Post your specs of your computer and the count of apps you have open!



Ok, here's mine:

- Maximum apps launched: 66 (i was too afraid to go further)
- RAM: 256MB
- Speed: 1Ghz G4 (iMac 17")
- Computer didn't crash
- None of the apps are stucked

Screenshots:

Dock ( http://users.pandora.be/chirotomsam/65 Programmas/dock.jpg )

Apps names
- http://users.pandora.be/chirotomsam/65 Programmas/1.jpg
- http://users.pandora.be/chirotomsam/65 Programmas/2.jpg
- http://users.pandora.be/chirotomsam/65 Programmas/3.jpg
- http://users.pandora.be/chirotomsam/65 Programmas/4.jpg
- http://users.pandora.be/chirotomsam/65 Programmas/5.jpg


Amazing! (don't you think?)
 
All of your links are borked they are cutting at the ' character. I looked by hand and that is a crowded dock.

-Eric
 
Maybe it's just me but all of your screenshots are comming up as 404's (File Not Found)
 
yeah, i know. you have to select the whole link. (some is cut off because of the ' ... Sorry, i will change it soon)
 
power mac 933mhz , memory: 1.25 GB
i think thats around 71 apps (i didnt have any more to open:()

it was impressive. i had apps like VPC and all of the Corel Graphics Suite open .. and at some point in the beginning i had around 8 apps bouncing on the dock , and not once did the my music on iTunes skip!!!!!!
 
I managed to load ONLY 85 apps cause that's how many I have installed in my:
- TiBook 1GHz, 512RAM, 60GB HD

No single app crashed and the system was stable too, all while iTunes was playing some funky tunes not missing a single BPM :D

A funny thing to do AND scary at the same time because if you will notice I had some heavy apps loaded there like FCE, iLife, Office, Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator as well as Corel Suite 11...

One app that I forgot to load was DVD Player :rolleyes: That would be next time! :D

Here are the screens:

homepage.mac.com/hulkaros/Reloaded.html

:p ;)

:)
 
OS X is styrange... in my Mac (sig.) with about 50 apps (and some heavy like photoshop,) keep stable and the system is't much slowler than when I just run Photoshop and Ilustrator... switching apps and scrolling is a bit slow... Itunes dont skip...
But... is as slow as allways...
Not great difference...
what does it means...?
 
That your computer isn't fast enough to run OS X fast, but OS X is such a great OS that almost nothing can slow it down?
Actually, I have found a bug that can bring my system to it's knees for about five minutes: if you put a computer to sleep and forget to un-mount the hard-drive of a Macintosh file server, and then if you take the computer to somewhere where you can't remount that server, you will have your system go into molasses mode for about five minutes while it is trying to connect. I have had this twice now.
 
how many, I dunno, i was just curious. Note, open all big apps first then the little ones, thats why Photoshop, and Image Ready isn't open, they kept crashing. I had a few more to go, but I got tired of this and said I'm going to bed. Well over 50 in the dock, and a number of those in the menubar and other processes. I was playing iTunes, no skips. Did slow down after ill launched

http://www.urbansory.com/crazydock.jpg
 
Originally posted by arden
Can I do this with OS 9 too?
Click to expand...

With OS 9 let's just say that if you gave Photoshop and Illustrator 512MB of RAM each and load them 1GB of RAM (including Virtual Memory) was gone...

Even if you gave them the minimum amount of RAM after some apps (dunno 15-20 at the most) the OS 9 stops loading apps and even worst files for loaded apps too! :rolleyes:

All the above of course taking in mind that nothing will crush (yes including the whole system) :p :D

;)

:)
 
:D 115 APPS open The Computer seemed sluggish??
867Mhz Quicksilver 1152MB Ram
iTunes Did not stutter, what a App!!!!
 

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heres an easy way. select find in finder (apple-f) add new critera and select kind - application. Search.

i found 314 apps. I really cant be bothered lauching them, but select all, then apple-o, and leave it for a few hours while it loads them all.

also go the the folder (apple-shift-g) /var/vm and count how many swap files you have (each one is usually about 76mb)
 
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