I've got my SSE2 T40 512mb now running at about system max - 3mb free ram. And It's still responsive!

I've Got these programs Running:

Finder
Dashboard
Mail
Safari
Address Book
Itunes (Music Playing)
Iphoto
Quicktime (Playing)
System Prefs
Word (Writing Docs)
Powerpoint (Playing with Transitions)
Remote Desktop Client
MSN Messenger
Grapher
Chess
System Activity Monitor

Don't you just love how macs never become unresponsive, slow or give up. Unlike their PC cousins!

EDIT: And the machine is running with 83% free CPU!

hehe, welcome to the world of macosx (my G4 500mhz can do that ) Multitasking is much more responcive in osx than windows.

Of course, you don't have disk problems. In my computer, doing anything while a file is being copyied takes directly to that funny flower turning around for minutes.

Regardless of how much RAM you have, the maximum you will be able to run is 100, unless you do this:

http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?sh...60&hl=processes

You mean unlike their windows cousins ;P

Thats better memory management for you, among many other things.

I don't know what you guys are talking about... I've had 60+ processes running in Windows for probably on the order of months without reboot. I'm a CS major and have been doing school work (software dev., papers, presentations, diragrams (Visio), gimp, etc.) non stop, I never close anything except Firefox when it gets funky (which it does on all OS' in my experience.

I like OS X and all, but here I don't follow.

lol... I thought it was a beachball...

My Windows XP PC can run many applications at once without crashing. That's if their idle though.