Pushing a Mac to the limit?

[RubbishBBspeed]

Was thinking about this last night while reaching for the cable to hook up an iphone, realising that I'm already running an external monitor, external hard disk, ipod, iphone, speakers, printer + a few others.

My question being. Whats the most any one has maxed out of there Mac and it not fallen over.

 

[trip1ex]

You're fine. You don't even have 4 usb devices or do you?

And speakers, monitor, hard drive, and printer and generally externally powered.

And not sure what you mean by maxed out? # of devices?

I'm sure you could add quite a few more and be fine. Depends on whether they need to be powered via USB or not. And whether you need to use them simultaneously.

 

[arjen92]

my 24" imac has:

-usb 500 Gb hard drive directly to mac
-keyboard directly to mac
-mouse to keyboard
-ipod to keyboard
-usb hub directly to mac
-canon colour printer to hub
-brother laser printer to hub
- external hard drive 250 GB to mac
-headphone into mini jack output
-FW 800 has a 1 TB hard drive plugged into him.
-FW 400 the DV camera is connected to that
-Ethernet
-an extra screen, not really spectacular

so every port, except for the line-in, is filled.

 

[Bennieboy©]

My PPC G5 has

two monitors on one gfx card
4 port hub powering the keyboard, mouse, iPod
usb ports on my formac monitor run my webcam, and my card reader,

not much but i would think you'd need a serious lot to cripple a macs performance

 

[rkdiddy]

Mac Mini powering the following:

(2) 22" Monitors
BT Keyboard
BT Mouse
USB Printer/Scanner
USB HD
Speakers
iTunes Streaming to my Living Room

All while running:
CS3 Creative Suite
Safari

Never had any issues.

 

[Bennieboy©]

Mac Mini powering the following:
CS3 Creative Suite
Never had any issues.

you run the entire suite at the same time :O