April 7, 2008
A picture is worth a thousand page outs
Posted Apr. 7, ’08, 5:42 AM PT by Derik DeLong
Category | Geekery
The things that you’ll find on Flickr can be mind boggling. The picture attached shows what happens when you open all the applications in your Applications folder. According to the poster:
This is why the mac rocks! My macbook pro 2.2Ghz was working smoothly even after opening all the Applications in the application folder and utilities folder. There are about more than 150 Applications open right now in expose.
4GB ram
All the apps were launched at the same time. Not one-by-one
I’ve yet to load one of my machines with 4 GB of RAM (yes, my poor Mac Pro still has just 2 GB), but claiming no slowdowns with that many applications just seems a bit like exaggeration to me. Have any of you tried a similar feat?
[via Gizmodo]
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Opening all of the applications on my Dock (about 18) resulted in some slowdowns on my 2GHz 2GB MacBook. I can't see how 150 programs is even possible to use regularly.
@wesq
How much RAM do you have? That's very important to be able to do this. My MacBook has 4GB or RAM with a 200GB HD running at 7200 RPMs. This worked for me the 2nd time. The first time my Mac froze when I also opened up Front Row. The 2nd time worked like a charm with only a small slow down. Most of my apps where opened simultaneously and not one by one. I could never do this on a PC, never.