How to "stress" your mac?

[TheShinyMac]

Hey guys do any of you know any ways to stress my mac. I just want to see how it handles under those conditions

 

[r.j.s]

Handbrake encode.

 

[imfrog2002]

Parallels + MMORPG on the VM, then a full HD movie in iTunes, fullscreen, iMovie, and Handbrake both encoding, and a graphic intense game on the Mac. My top of the line iMac can't handle a VM and iMovie, so that would push it to it's limits. You might even have to force restart. Up to you if you want to try it, though.

 

[TheShinyMac]

Ok so I dont have any software like parallels and such. Are there any terminal codes.

 

[mbsaeger]

Ok so I dont have any software like parallels and such. Are there any terminal codes.

Handbrake is free, and almost did it for me, along with iTunes email, ichat, safari, firefox, imovie, adobe photoshop cs4. It was pretty slow, I have a the newest iMac, with the lowest spec' and SL dev preview.... I'm going to format and reinstall SL though on FRI.

 

[dukebound85]

rember which tests ram

cputest which is like prime95 found on windows

both will make your machine flex