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How many apps can your computer run?
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katie ta achoo said:
mine slowed down, but all app were still responding, 3 of which were playing movies.
how much RAM do you have?
Dont make me straddle and teabag you Abstract! You better recognize!Abstract said:
BTW, where are you measuring from? Is this length or girth?
Tried this ... ran EVERY app.
That includes the Developer Apps, and the apps in the Utilities folder.
And then I didn't get the screen shot.
Didn't want to try it again - ran like a dog.
I think Windows would've crashed out though, with 117 apps running...
That includes the Developer Apps, and the apps in the Utilities folder.
And then I didn't get the screen shot.
Didn't want to try it again - ran like a dog.
I think Windows would've crashed out though, with 117 apps running...
What is it about this thread that prompts me for the password on my local apache server? Weird...
I'm going to revist this one after a reboot.
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yellow% uptime
13:17 up 34 days, 18:58, 4 users, load averages: 0.27 0.18 0.16Uma888 said:
mine slowed down, but all app were still responding, 3 of which were playing movies.
how much RAM do you have?
only a gig.
My PowerBook gets no love.
Maybe I should treat him to some more RAM for the holidays.
Also, I didn't open them one by one, I just selected all of them and pressed command-o.
I'm a lazy bum. If I did it one-by-one, I could probably open all of them.
thequicksilver said:My iBook (as below) ran 68 apps quite nicely.
I can see my screenie in your exposé shot
No time for a pic- but I did this when I got my new machine a week ago, (apps=command+a, then command+o) and opened all apps- And WHOA!!!! I watched apps fly open incredibly fast and som many at once! God bless the G5!
ahunter3 said:
OK, I had more time to play with it this time. About 100 apps.
Some of them were lightweights (Terminal, BBEdit Lite, GraphicConverter) but some were not (VirtualPC, Photoshop, Illustrator).
A very large handful of them were Classic apps. Yes, I cued up the Classic environment for this. On the one hand, lots of those Classic apps were among the lightweights; on the other hand, most folks assume you could not run a lot of concurrent applications under MacOS 9. I did (47 of those apps were Classic apps).
I also had the X11 environment going and a Mac Plus emulation environment (miniVmac) up and running, with 4 apps apiece.
Was going to launch 6-7 PC apps under NT running under VirtualPC, but VPC was the last Mac app I launched, and I could almost hear my poor CPU wailing to the RAM chips, "Is he nuts?"... NT finally came up and gave me Desktop, but it remained unresponsive and in my impatience I double-clicked Internet Explorer over and over. Eventually it started launching — a separate instance for each double-click. They were still coming up one at a time when I shut the whole works down.
One app i was notrunning was the Dock. I don't use it. (and Exposé is a lousy record of running apps anyhow, it gives you a display of windows, not apps). So here is my X-Assist menu (Photoshopped into one long strip from 3 separate screenshots).
