Got bored, Come watch OS X own all :D

[flyingroof]

And you came back to post about it on a forum! Epic Fail!

You think i went outside, came in and typed about it? :laugh:

[NienorGT]

I could do a bat to open 2000 notepad....

[Brandon Live Veteran]

done.

i thik you needa good pc to do it. i have 4GBs of ram and a core 2 quad.

i got to like 300 and a ballon came up saying about poor performance at the time i was using like 3.2GBs of ram this dropped to about 2.8GBs

then when i got to 350 and it said aero was using too much ram and turned it off then ram usage dropped again from 3.2GBs to about 1.9GBs.

from there on i just had to open loads more upto 1000 it seemed it was aero taking most of the ram to run the windows rather than notepad itself.

ended on about 3GBs as from the pic

If you have the DWM running (aka "Aero" or "desktop composition") it will use more memory because each top-level window (regardless of what it contains, even something as simple as notepad) gets its own bitmap to draw to. Basically, in the old model (XP and such) it would be like all 1000 of those windows is on-screen and fully visible.

This also means that the size of those windows will have a significant impact on the overall memory usage (of the DWM).

I'd try this right now on my machine, but given the OS I'm running, it wouldn't be a fair comparison :)

[Tristan]

I win!

[The2]

I win!

I want that background :p

[Beastage]

How does one open 1000-2000 windows of the same text file?! surely not manually

[giga Veteran]

How does one open 1000-2000 windows of the same text file?! surely not manually

The way vegetunks did looks to be by holding down CMD+N but it could have been an Applescript as well. It's not opening the same text file though.

[Tristan]

I want that background :p

http://www.box.net/shared/static/87oc0uwgs0.bmp

[osirisX]

Even cooler is opening 1000 windows up and then pressing Command+Option+W.

[Rob2687]

I tried opening a bunch of Firefox windows in Ubuntu with Compiz running. X crashed after about 130 windows.

[Damian]

2009 :p

Expose doesn't work at 2009 windows.

[OOOOOOOO]

And the single geekiest and most waste of time thread goes to this one :D

lol

Dang

[osirisX]

2009 :p

Expose doesn't work at 2009 windows.

Expose and other window control options stopped working for me after 1000.

[fhpuqrgrpgvirzhpujbj]

Refused to open more after 247...

[rage710]

Even cooler is opening 1000 windows up and then pressing Command+Option+W.

+1

AMAZING! I could seriously do this for an hour straight...

[giga Veteran]

Expose and other window control options stopped working for me after 1000.

Worked for me when I had 1005 windows open. Maybe it scales to your system?

[CPressland]

Damn, I started a monster thread :D

Ok, thats it, i'm building an apple script and going to use my mates Mac Pro to open 10,000 windows :D *and expos?*

As I said though, I was able to open 2000 TextEdits without IShowYou running on my MacBook

[osirisX]

Worked for me when I had 1005 windows open. Maybe it scales to your system?

Maybe. I had over 1100 TextEdit windows open along with Safari, Adium, Twitteriffic, NetNewsWire and Mail.

My system config:

[fhpuqrgrpgvirzhpujbj]

Why use something quick and easy like notepad?

[osirisX]

What does Flip3D do when there are too many windows?

[giga Veteran]

Maybe. I had over 1100 TextEdit windows open along with Safari, Adium, Twitteriffic, NetNewsWire and Mail.

My system config:

Yeah it's probably your ram.

[Roger H. Veteran]

AERO does exactly what you see in that screenshot. I opened 175 of those and it showed 190MB RAM used for Word 2007. I didn't try notepad. :)

[MrA]

God knows how many firefox windows, taking up 1.3GiB of ram.

[Cormier6083]

how long did it take you to do that? :D

[MasterC]

I can do that in Windows

Oh yeah? I just did it with my toaster :p