Doin Everything At Once... How far do you push your Mac?
Ahhh... I'm really getting into the hang of just using my Mac and not worrying about doing things in sequence- and waiting 'just in case'- and closing down apps before I put the computer to sleep...
Hell No. Now I do everything at once and just glide the lid shut (Alu PB) to put everything to sleep.
My current workload (I say 'work', but really...):
+ 8 documents in Word open/being edited (often, I don't save them for days -eek)
+ iTunes playing (August and Everything, Counting Crows), and ripping a CD, and updating/charging my iPod
+ poisoned *idle* (in itself its legal you know)
+ tabbed browsing in Safari (all forums in AI open)
+ mail (almost 400 messages)
+ activity monitor (with cpu usage showing in the dock)
+ folding@home taking up any free cpu cycles (85% on protein p734_villin_sd_h2... Go Team 1971!)
+ and TextEdit, Preview and Temperature Monitor open
+ and a few finder windows
I know that I'm not really doing everything at once, but feeling that I am is really amazing.
Anyways, How far do you push your Mac?
Hell No. Now I do everything at once and just glide the lid shut (Alu PB) to put everything to sleep.
My current workload (I say 'work', but really...):
+ 8 documents in Word open/being edited (often, I don't save them for days -eek)
+ iTunes playing (August and Everything, Counting Crows), and ripping a CD, and updating/charging my iPod
+ poisoned *idle* (in itself its legal you know)
+ tabbed browsing in Safari (all forums in AI open)
+ mail (almost 400 messages)
+ activity monitor (with cpu usage showing in the dock)
+ folding@home taking up any free cpu cycles (85% on protein p734_villin_sd_h2... Go Team 1971!)
+ and TextEdit, Preview and Temperature Monitor open
+ and a few finder windows
I know that I'm not really doing everything at once, but feeling that I am is really amazing.
Anyways, How far do you push your Mac?
Comments
Originally posted by SonOfSylvanus
...My current workload...
Nutter .
Dave.
So I have the following Apps opened...
Safari
iDVD 4
Software Update (Control Panel)
M$ Word
Limewire
iTunes
and then my computer begs for mercy
I really hope Apple addresses this issue, even on the dual g5s, GB stutters after 10+ live audio tracks.
but yeah, if I'm NOT using GB
~iTunes
~iChat
~Safari
~Stickies
~Preview
are open at any given time, then I often dip into
~photoshop
~imageready
~GB(just to do some light editing, not actual recording or anything that would melt my computer)
~Reason(though I really haven't used it much since I got GB)
it's interesting, GB takes as much as many pro applications to run, well, at least now I feel like I'm making USE of all my computers power.
Project Builder
Interface Builder
Terminal
seti@home
SetiLogger X
Safari
Entourage
Simpletext
I think that is it... I get lots of page outs
Oh and sometimes my wife gets in Photoshop while the others are running. Think it is time to upgrade?
Terminal (six windows)
TeXShop (seven windows)
BibDesk (one window)
Finder (er... nine windows)
Safari (just the one window)
Mail (one viewer)
iChat (five chats, buddy list)
iTunes
iCal
Address Book
OmniOutliner (one window)
SubEthaEdit (six windows)
Temperature Monitor
And CodeTek Virtual Desktop to keep it all organized.
This is my everyday application work list. Add Xcode and Interface Builder when I'm coding something non-Pythony.
512MB 15" AlBook.
iTunes playing and visuals in a window
EyeTV on in a window, recording/or watching the news
DVD movie on in a window and playing
Photoshop working on a photo
InDesign working on a layout
Illustrator open on a graphic
Appleworks spreadsheet open
Art Directors toolkit open
iPhoto open
Safari open typing this
iCal open
Mail open
iChat open
Calculator open
Thesaurus and dictionary open
Several distributed computing projects running
ThermographX
Address book open
Activity Monitor
Halo in a window
Apple Remote Desktop controlling a eMac in a window
eMac is running distributed computing projects and chess, iChat
All on the same screen, it's total sensory overload
THANK SJ FOR EXPOSE!
With ARD, all I have to do is add more headless Mac's and I can control them from my G5, one at a time, or watch several screens at once. I can't copy and paste between computers, but I can transfer files very easily.
Now if I could use the processor power on those remote machines on my own.
last night I had opwn Maya (and was batch rendering), Poisoned (downloading), safari, photoshop, iTunes.... and all on a g3 400mhz!!!!!!
I am soon updating to a g5 (I will be skipping the g4's all together) so that I can get faster use outof Maya... but I gotta say, I bought my g3 four years ago, and it has been one of the best buys ever. I have never had a prob with it.
Les.
Let's see here.. currently open...
Safari, Mail (checking every minute) iTunes (playing some tunes) Illustrator CS (2 documents open) Photoshop CS (3 Documents open) GoLive CS (2 Sites open) iChat AV, LiveType, and Soundtrack open. Still pretty responsive too... by the way... if Apple got GarageBand to speed like Soundtrack it would be heaven.
- FTP server
- VNC server
- TextEdit
- SubEthaEdit
- iChat
- iTunes
- burning CD
- Safari, with 4 tabs
- Folding@Home
I'm using a 450Mhz G4 Cube, 384 megs.1. Safari
2. Limewire currently downloading 4 of 76 MPGs (my girlfriend is out of town for several months.)
Specs:
Dual 1.8 GHZ G5
20 Inch LCD <-- Very helpful
Originally posted by Sailfish
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Now if I could use the processor power on those remote machines on my own.
You can...there are some apps popping up that allow you to do clustering. Search Version Tracker for some of them. And I'm not sure...but is xGrid out yet?
1. Itunes (MP3 playing and 2nd store window open)
2. mozilla (2 windows)
3. word 2003 (7 pg document)
4. kazaa (NOT SHARING!!!)
this pushes windoze to the limit...o i forgot...avg (antivirus, gee thanx ms)
xp, even with 15 of the default servises disabled is still big dumb ugly and clunky
IM
Netscape
IE
iTunes
dnetc
Civilization 3
Plus various other little things running and there is no problem. Of course this isnt a slow machine...nor is it ours, well it is until the guy pays me for it!!!
Safari
iTunes
Photoshop
Sherlock
Illustrator
Folding Clothes
Justice League TroubleAlert monitoring (bastard Luthor...)
Fairuza Balk SpyCam (shhh...)
iCal
Can I use Xgrid to speed up my favorite application?
The short answer is no.
The long answer is that if your favorite application performs long-running calculations that can be factored out into smaller support programs, then the application developer can write a small Xgrid plug-in to submit those long-running computations to the grid. Xgrid was designed with this expandability in mind.
Xgrid is good for solving scientific problems that require enormous amounts of computation, but not very much input or output.
So the potential is there, what's going to slow things down is the network.
safari
voodoo note pad
sys prefs
photo chop
msn messenger
vpc 6 running windows xp
toast
poisoned
stuffit