School eMac Test

[Lennox]

I tested out how long it would take to open every program on the dock (except iChat) on a school library computer.

It has a 1.42 GHz processor and only 256 MB of ram. It took about 20 minutes to get everything up. After it was all done, every time I tried to minimize something, it would take around 30 seconds to do it.

This was just a random experiment I did. It did not really have any meaning to it at all..

 

[foothead]

ummm ok....

It is being limited by the RAM. I have a 1.07 GHz iBook G4 and I can run all those programs, plus the entire adobe suite, and Appleworks among others and it is still (relatively) responsive.

 

[eslfish]

Welcome to my world...are PC's at our school crash when you have any Adobe application up, so much for getting work done. :/

 

[Legodude522]

Hahaha. That's why I like OS X. It won't crash even if you throw everything at it, it will just continuously crank away very slowly.

I got an iBook G4 running at 1.42ghz with 1.5gb of RAM.

 

[foothead]

I went to the apple store and got 75 applications open on a mac mini before it ran out of RAM. A mac mini. I can't even imagine what their 8 core nehalem mac pro would do.