80 Apps on a Hackintosh Netbook – Fair or Foul?
12:40 pm, February 9th, 2009, Lonnie Lazar
Last week we wrote about a kind of silly competition going on out there in Mac land between people vying for the title for running the most apps simultaneously on a Mac.
Comes now, Cult reader Jay Pan, who figures all the buzz about people running OS X on hacked netbooks should entitle him to some consideration for managing to get 80 apps going with OS X running on an Advent 4211 ( MSI Wind Clone ), with both Blender and Daz3D launched.
“I’ve been trying to determine Atom’s performances with Mac OS X for some time now, and I think this shows Atom’s netbooks are not so crippled!” he told us.
So what do you think? Is Pan’s record in the same league with the 240 apps running on a Mac Pro 8 core machine? Should the judges create a special “netbook” category for the dubious “Busy Mac” honor?
Follow after the jump for Pan’s hardware specs and list of apps running, and be sure to click on the image above for a larger view.
Hardware is:
* Atom N270 @1.6ghz
* 2Gb Ram
* 80Gb Western Digital Scorpio HDD
* OS X Leopard 10.5.4
List of Apps in order of launch :
1. Finder + Dashboard + Spaces
2. Stickies
3. Mail
4. Safari
5. Quicktime
6. iTunes
7. iPhoto
8. iMovie
9. Keynote
10. Numbers
11. Pages
12. System Prefs
13. GarageBand
14. iWeb
15. Realtek Wlan Utility
16. Address Book
17. Adium
18. Automator
19. Calculator
20. CeltX
21. Chess
22. Dictionnary
23. Font Book
24. iCal
25. iChat
26. Preview
27. VLC
28. TextEdit
29. Console
30. Activity Monitor
31. Digital Color Meter
32. Directory
33. Disk Utility
34. Grab
35. Monolingual
36. Grapher
37. Onyx
38. System Profiler
39. Terminal
40. VoiceOver Utility
41. Color Sync Utility
42. Audio Midi Setup
43. µTorrent
44. Cyberduck
45. X11
46. Gimp
47. iSync
48. Photobooth
49. Trix
50. DazStudio
51. Audacity
52. Bean
53. Bricksmith
54. DVD Hunter
55. Fun Card Maker
56. Game Hunter
57. Handbrake
58. Hyper Engine AV
59. Kigo Video Converter
60. Levelator
61. MPEG Streamclip
62. SubFix
63. Subs Factory
64. Vino
65. Blender
66. Buddi
67. Cashbox
68. Freemind
69. Juice
70. Q
71. Seashore
72. Skim
73. Smultron
74. Xee
75. Inkspace
76. Open Office 3
77. Miro
78. The Unarchiver
79. Stuffit 12
80. Stellarium
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This is useless without a video showing what switching between random apps does the the poor machine. If you have time and virtual memory enough you can launch as many apps as you like. This does not mean you can *use* them then.
uhuznaa, on February 9th, 2009 at 2:04 pm
The “MSI Wind Clone” is not a Mac so I don’t see how it even qualifies for the competition.
Khurt, on February 9th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
you make me sick to my stomach uhuznaa
flunkycarter, on February 9th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
well, I’d give him the benefit of the doubt
OS X is being touted to have celestial memory management that’s supposed to be beyond us all mere mortals…
if I’m not mistaken, it’s something called “dynamic memory allocation”?
rauy, on February 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
80 Apps on 80GB HD? How many swap disk OS X has on his MSI wind?
Doubt it run pretty well…
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OS X’s memory management is very good. I once opened all the apps in my Applications folder by accident, and my Macbook did not crash. I was able to close down the 158 apps I didn’t want running and continue on.
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