Monday, February 17, 2020

"Mac Pro with 1.5 TB of RAM can open 6,000 Chrome tabs"

Step away from the keyboard, we're going to get you some help.*
From BizChina:
Apple’s Mac Pro is one of the most powerful (and expensive) desktop computers you can buy today. That’s especially if you opt for a configuration with a large number of processors, memory and storage.
The Mac Pro can be configured with up to 1.5 TB of RAM, which means that in theory, it should be able to keep almost any application you launch in memory. Of course, everything has its limits, including 1.5 TB of RAM, and the youTuber Jonathan Morris has discovered it.

Morris has pushed a Mac Pro configured with 1.5 TB of RAM to the limit by opening 6,000 tabs in Google Chrome. If you use this browser, you’ll know that Chrome tends to take up a lot of memory....
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*If interested see also 2018's "It’s Time to Give Firefox a Fresh Chance (GOOG)":

...We noted the start of Firefox's turnaround in last July's "Firefox vs Chrome: "Firefox’s blazing speed with huge numbers of tabs leaves Chrome in the dust"  followed by "Close Those Tabs!":
I know we have sent conflicting messages on the subjects of tabs and bookmarks.

On the one hand pitching the fact researchers had tested the latest version of Firefox with 1,691 tabs open at the same time - "a power user's dream" - while on the other hand posting "Hey, You at the Computer, Hoarding Links is a Mental Illness":
Step away from the keyboard, we're going to get you some help....
If you switch and feel some anxiety about not sending Google enough personal information, the GOOG does have a couple non-Chrome options:

1) 'Optical sensors' embedded in everyday objects could assess cardiovascular function and help users improve heart health" (GOOG)
Well isn't this a dream come true:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/cbi-research-portal-uploads/2018/01/04151139/sensing-milieu.jpg
NOT!
I am not putting cameras* behind the mirrors in the bathrooms, sorry.
Maybe behind the ones in the long hall.....