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sheepopo39
Jan 18, 2009, 09:36 PM
I had some friends over for dinner tonight and I was showing them my macbook. So one of them played a prank on me and opened about 400+ windows by creating about 400 folders and then selecting them all and opening them. So to make a long story short, I closed them all and now I am wondering if this could have hurt my hd by doing this.

P.S The fan really got going when he did it


kastenbrust
Jan 18, 2009, 09:38 PM
No it cant. It cant hurt anything.

The Processor was asked to do more work, so it got hotter, so the fans came on faster to cool it down.
Thats why it sounded louder.
juanster
Jan 18, 2009, 09:42 PM
yeah i also dont see how it could hurt anything in your comp
sheepopo39
Jan 18, 2009, 09:43 PM
Thanks, my friend while a very good friend likes to play jokes on me and he knows that I can get paranoid with some things.

Well thanks again :)
VSMacOne
Jan 18, 2009, 10:04 PM
Thanks, my friend while a very good friend likes to play jokes on me and he knows that I can get paranoid with some things.

Well thanks again :)

sounds like he pulled a good one :D
mynameisraj
Jan 18, 2009, 11:03 PM
400? wow… that must have looked pretty insane…

and no damage to your hd, like others have stated, it just made your processor heat up which caused the fans to spin faster trying to cool it down.
fuzzycuffs
Jan 18, 2009, 11:38 PM
I think you might have hurt the macbook's feelings. :(
Sun Baked
Jan 18, 2009, 11:42 PM
Luckily with a simple click modifier, all the windows close at once.
sammich
Jan 18, 2009, 11:51 PM
When I installed new ram, I like to take it for test run (for fun), open up my 'iTunes Music' folder, select all, and open. That for me is about 900 folders. The test being how fast the windows open, and how many open up before it slows down (ie system has run out of ram and is using swap space on the HDD).

To the OP...you can't hurt the computer by using it.
kastenbrust
Jan 18, 2009, 11:59 PM
When I installed new ram, I like to take it for test run (for fun), open up my 'iTunes Music' folder, select all, and open. That for me is about 900 folders. The test being how fast the windows open, and how many open up before it slows down (ie system has run out of ram and is using swap space on the HDD).

To the OP...you can't hurt the computer by using it.

lol thats more of a CPU test than a RAM test but if it works for you :p I prefer Geekbench.
sheepopo39
Jan 24, 2009, 08:27 PM
since it was on my lap it also might have hurt something else :)
jpk32092
Jan 24, 2009, 09:10 PM
can it hurt the hd (high definition) uhhh no


now what i think you meant.. can it hurt the hdd (hard drive)
no.

:P
sheepopo39
Jan 24, 2009, 09:32 PM
no, can it hurt the hard disk (hd)
NewMacbookPlz
Jan 25, 2009, 02:35 AM
no, can it hurt the hard disk (hd)

god forbid a computer is USED, haha....

no, it's fine.
Chase R
Jan 25, 2009, 02:40 AM
I would love to see Expose work with 400 windows... That would sure be a sight.
sheepopo39
Jan 25, 2009, 08:49 AM
yeah it was quite crazy, expose could actually only display about 200 of them

Luckily with a simple click modifier, all the windows close at once.

There is one that does that? Could have saved me quite a bit of time
xUKHCx
Jan 25, 2009, 08:59 AM
I would love to see Expose work with 400 windows... That would sure be a sight.

Just did it:

154571


yeah it was quite crazy, expose could actually only display about 200 of them

A quick count of the one above it looks like it does all of them


There is one that does that? Could have saved me quite a bit of time


cmd+opt+w or opt+red close button :)