Mac Running 200 Apps Makes a Picture of ‘Busy’

By Lonnie Lazar (8:55 am, Feb 03 2009)

Mac Running 200 Apps Makes a Picture of ‘Busy’

This could get ugly. Seems there’s a bit of a competition going on out there over how many apps one can get running simultaneously, as reported by Gizmodo.

Last spring, some guy reported running 150 on a 2.2ghz MacBook Pro,, which was quickly challenged by some clown running 108 on Vista (huh?).

Now, we get the new champ, whose mark has been set on a 20-inch 2007 iMac, with a 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo and 4 Gigabytes of RAM. Makes for a kind of interesting showcase for Exposé, I guess.

How about you? How many apps do you run simulataneously on your Mac?

Via Gizmodo

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http://www.danielcarroll.info DanielC
I’m impressed, especially as one of the Apps is Google Earth.
http://sjdvda.co.cc Saajid Vawda
Wow, I want a dock like that :D
OlsonBW
About 10 years ago someone had a post on a bulletin board about running over 1,000 applications on OS/2 on a 486 computer.
I used to use OS/2 (and in some ways still like it better than OS X) and considering everything I did on it the claim was very reasonable.
Al Christensen
Heck, I feel guilty if I’m running more than five.
windest
Safari, OmniGraffle, Preview, TextEdit, Mail, Grab, SnapZ, trial to InDesign and PhotoShop on a G4 Sawtooth is the best I can do.
James Churchman
ok, think i have it beat already!!!
too many apps to count to be honest- over 250 i reckon
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24226321@N06/3252713007/
i cant unfortunately upload the image to flickr and it keep the native resolution, the image is too big and even the “large” is hugely down sampled
if somebody can upload a larger image (premium account?) then i can email it to them
(machine limited me to no more apps with an error code, + i could not screen shot with out quitting one app — it just did nothing)
james