by linathael
One of hardmac.com readers sent us a screen capture of his desktop, featuring 76 widgets running simultaneously… the side effect of this widget addiction is the RAM usage: 2GB.

So being a widget fan has a price… but maybe it’s time to enjoy it since prices on RAM are so low right now ;)
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August 11th, 2005 at 20:49 CEST
Dude… decaf.
August 11th, 2005 at 21:36 CEST
mit einem Marktanteil von unter 2% vor sich hin (zumindest wenn man den Zahlen der Umfrage einer koreanischen Consulting Firma Glauben schenken will). — MacFixIt hat seinen obligatorischen Troubleshooting Guide für 10.4.2 zusammengestellt. — 76 aktive Widgets im Dashboard , ein neuer Rekord an sinnloser Informationsüberfrachtung.
August 12th, 2005 at 15:22 CEST
this is totally going to be my new desktop background.
August 14th, 2005 at 21:12 CEST
what is this street-art calender? where can i get this widget?
August 15th, 2005 at 02:11 CEST
Hold on - has anyone done the math here? How could 76 widgets (or 2000meg/76 = 26.3meg) each take 26 megs a piece???
I don’t think this is right. My guess is this (admittedly lucky) dude wanted to show off that he had some mac with 2-3 gigs of ram and a 30″ screen. I just won’t believe those numbers.
August 16th, 2005 at 02:59 CEST
well, seeing how some widgets are displaying pictures…. and IF those pictures are high res… (those are big IFs, though)
Moreover, IF, as it seems, some widgets are layered over one another… you could reach quite a monstrous amount of RAM. Though I agree with Kevbo, 2GB seems quite… out of proportion.
if the guy had been serious, he would have left a corner of the screen with Activity Monitor, or terminal session running top, to show how much memory was used. But as it is… I call BS.
August 27th, 2005 at 08:13 CEST
blog.hardmac.com
September 20th, 2005 at 16:18 CEST
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November 14th, 2005 at 00:29 CET
[...] HardMac’s Blog » Blog Archive » A dashboard addict : 76 is a record [...]
February 19th, 2008 at 16:52 CET
[...] Widget mania! Pic credit: HardMacs Blog. [...]
March 17th, 2008 at 15:23 CET
hahahahahha
fuking RIOT WIDG!