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A dashboard addict : 76 is a record

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.

76 widgets

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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This entry was posted on Thursday, August 11th, 2005 at 09:21 CEST and is filed under Rants & Raves. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

11 Responses to “A dashboard addict : 76 is a record”

  1. budgie Says:
    August 11th, 2005 at 20:49 CEST

    Dude… decaf.

  2. fscklog - mac tales of interest Says:
    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.

  3. LCD Says:
    August 12th, 2005 at 15:22 CEST

    this is totally going to be my new desktop background.

  4. martin Says:
    August 14th, 2005 at 21:12 CEST

    what is this street-art calender? where can i get this widget?

  5. Kevbo Says:
    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.

  6. kurisu Says:
    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.

  7. wreck tide Says:
    August 27th, 2005 at 08:13 CEST

    blog.hardmac.com

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    September 20th, 2005 at 16:18 CEST

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  11. XblaskoX Says:
    March 17th, 2008 at 15:23 CET

    hahahahahha
    fuking RIOT WIDG!

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