jchowland Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 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! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1601-how-many-progs-can-you-run/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
helfire Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 hehe, welcome to the world of macosx (my G4 500mhz can do that ) Multitasking is much more responcive in osx than windows. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1601-how-many-progs-can-you-run/#findComment-10020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lontano Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1601-how-many-progs-can-you-run/#findComment-33311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stryder Posted December 2, 2005 Share Posted December 2, 2005 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1601-how-many-progs-can-you-run/#findComment-33340 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xequence Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Don't you just love how macs never become unresponsive, slow or give up. Unlike their PC cousins! You mean unlike their windows cousins ;P Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1601-how-many-progs-can-you-run/#findComment-82364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
declan Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 Thats better memory management for you, among many other things. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1601-how-many-progs-can-you-run/#findComment-82369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
glennpratt Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1601-how-many-progs-can-you-run/#findComment-96324 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted April 15, 2006 Share Posted April 15, 2006 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. lol... I thought it was a beachball... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1601-how-many-progs-can-you-run/#findComment-96502 Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav1085 Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 My Windows XP PC can run many applications at once without crashing. That's if their idle though. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/1601-how-many-progs-can-you-run/#findComment-229537 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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