Doin Everything At Once... How far do you push your Mac?

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in General Discussion edited January 2014
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?
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  • Reply 1 of 25
    Quote:

    Originally posted by SonOfSylvanus

    ...My current workload...



    Nutter .



    Dave.
  • Reply 2 of 25
    Downloading music (some legally some illegally), Word, Software Update, iDVD burning, and Safari Web Browsing...



    So I have the following Apps opened...



    Safari



    iDVD 4



    Software Update (Control Panel)



    M$ Word



    Limewire



    iTunes
  • Reply 3 of 25
    Garageband, 4(live audio) tracks



    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.
  • Reply 4 of 25
    tfworldtfworld Posts: 181member
    On my Beige G3 @ 466Mhz I have:



    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?
  • Reply 5 of 25
    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    Hmmmm.



    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.
  • Reply 6 of 25
    Dual 2 Ghz G5, ATI 9600, 23"Cinema 2.5GB RAM





    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.
  • Reply 7 of 25
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    iTunes, AIM, Safari, Poisoned, Photoshop. That is basically all I do, though I have found I'm likely to get a crash or kernal panic when I'm in games and switching back and forth between games and AIM.
  • Reply 8 of 25
    idunnoidunno Posts: 645member
    Okay Boys,



    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.
  • Reply 9 of 25
    tfworldtfworld Posts: 181member
    les t I must agree. Time to forget the G4 and go for G5!
  • Reply 10 of 25
    sailfish, you beastly propagandist, you have a beastly set up and a beastly workload to boot!
  • Reply 11 of 25
    G5 Single 1.8...



    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.
  • Reply 12 of 25
    cubedudecubedude Posts: 1,556member
    • 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.
  • Reply 13 of 25
    bungebunge Posts: 7,329member
    Let's see...



    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
  • Reply 14 of 25
    dmband0026dmband0026 Posts: 2,345member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Sailfish

    [snip]

    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?
  • Reply 15 of 25
    a_greera_greer Posts: 4,594member
    once again you mac-ers have windows users beat, heres a little food for your ego (as if yall' need it lol ) well heres my list:

    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
  • Reply 16 of 25
    tfworldtfworld Posts: 181member
    On our Athalon XP 2500 game machine, we can have:



    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!!!
  • Reply 17 of 25
    pscatespscates Posts: 5,847member
    Mail

    Safari

    iTunes

    Photoshop

    Sherlock

    Illustrator

    Folding Clothes

    Justice League TroubleAlert monitoring (bastard Luthor...)

    Fairuza Balk SpyCam (shhh...)

    iCal
  • Reply 18 of 25
    FAQ



    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.
  • Reply 19 of 25
    i dont really feel like listing everything, but let's just say that exposé and desktop manager (which is an AWESOME app) keep me from going crazy.
  • Reply 20 of 25
    I tunes

    safari

    voodoo note pad

    sys prefs

    photo chop

    msn messenger

    vpc 6 running windows xp

    toast

    poisoned

    stuffit



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