Apple Mac Pro: all the way to the tabs
What happens when you open 6,000 tabs in Google Chrome on an Apple Mac Pro with 1.5TB of RAM? A YouTuber has just tried it out.
Jonathan Morrison has succeeded: he managed to bend his Mac Pro - incidentally nicknamed the cheese grater by admirers and detractors alike - despite 1.5 terabytes of RAM.
And you know what with? With Google Chrome, of course!
And you know what?
Stability with 5000 tabs
Using Automator - the proprietary task automation software designed by Apple - Jonathan edited a script used to open 50 websites in Chrome 20 times. With 1,000 tabs open in Chrome and a few applications running in the background, the Mac Pro still works without a hitch. Between 2000 and 3000 tabs, the computer slows down a little and at 5000, the processor reports problems.
Jonathan leaves his Mac Pro running with all 5,000 tabs open throughout the night.
Source: Jonathan Morrison
The next morning, the Mac Pro is running at 800GB of RAM, which is still fine. At this point, Jonathan praises macOS, the operating system. Despite constant overload, the system is properly cooled and still runs stably.
So he decides to open another 1000 Chrome tabs.
Crash to 6000 tabs
Today, RAM load is at an all-time high. Chrome is using more than 1.4TB of RAM. The browser is no longer stable. Before the Mac Pro stops working, Jonathan quits Chrome.
He ends up asking himself the same question every user asks: why would any sensible user need 1.5TB of RAM?
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