How many apps can your computer run?

[gauchogolfer]

So I gave it a shot this morning...whoa. My poor powerbook had a tough time opening all 83 items, but the Dock sure looked cool. Here's the exposé shot.

 

[Arip]

just 49 and still running all progs, surfing the web, reading mails, and photoshopping on my poiwe 12'' 1.5 1.25ram

 

[dpaanlka]

This was my attempt...

48 Apps, including all of Adobe CS2, all of Macromedia Studio 8, all of Office 2004, all of iLife'05, Virtual PC running Windows XP, and a whole bunch of other junk... still with about 20 - 30% CPU idle according to Activity Monitor. The machine was very useable.

This was on a 1999 AGP G4 with a gig of ram and a 1.8ghz Sonnet upgrade.

 

[dpaanlka]

I'm fairly confident I can do essentially the same thing on my Power Mac 8600/200 with 700mb of ram... running Mac OS 7.6.1.

Once I go home I'll do it.

 

[kretzy]

I just opened up everything, exposed it, and then it wouldn't take the screen shot!

 

[ahunter3]

Official "Make My New Computer Whimper" Edition

PowerBook G4, 2 full gigs of RAM. Let's see what this baby can lift...

First I'll throw a bunch of emulators at it, and enough programs within each emulated environment to at least keep the emulated process managers ticking over. Then I'll run Classic and jam it up good. If it's still responsive, I'll dump some X11 and Aqua apps on top of that. Here goes...

Virtual PC
___Windows 2000 Server
______FileMaker 8
______FileMaker 6
______Timbuktu
______Internet Explorer
______Outlook Express
______Conversions Plus
______Microsoft Dictation
___FreeBSD 4.4
______Galactic Conquest
______Netscape Navigator
______Igloo FTP
______Text Editor
______Fractals Generator
___NT Server 4.0
______Firefox
______FileMaker 5.5
______FileMaker 4.1
______Corel Quattro Pro 7
______Corel WordPerfect 7
______Retrospect Express
______RealVNC Viewer
___Windows95
______Lotus 123 Millennium Edition
______Lotus WordPro Millennium Edition
______Microsoft Excel '97
______Microsoft Word '97
______Paint Shop Pro 6.0.2
______vMac
_________System 6.0.8
_________FileMaker Pro 2.2
_________Excel 2.2
___
Basilisk II (in X11)
___System 7.5.5
______Aldus SuperPaint 3.5
______Ircle 3.1
______MacBench 3.0
______GraphicConverter 3.1
______MacWrite Pro 1.5v3
_________
MinivMac
___System 6.0.8
______Adobe Photoshop 1.0.7
______SuperPaint 1.0
______
____________
Classic Environment
___Spanish Assistant
___SimpleText
___Nisus Writer 5.0.3
___MacWrite Pro 1.5
___Corel WordPerfect 3.5
___Morph 2.0.1
___Compact Pro
___Disk Copy 6.4
___MacLHA 2.21
___UnUU
___UULite 2.0 UR
___GURU 2.7.1
___Stuffit InstallerMaker 2.0
___MacBench 5.0
___ResEdit 2.1.3
___Screen Ruler
___Mozilla 1.2.1
___PageMill 2.0
___FileMaker Plus 2.1
___FileMaker II
___FileMaker Pro 1.0
___FileMaker Pro 2.1
___FileMaker Pro 4.0
___FileMaker Pro 5.0
___FileMaker Pro 5.5
___FileMaker Pro 6.0
___FileMaker Pro Server 2.0
___FileMaker Pro Server 3.0
___FileMaker Pro Server 5.0
___Adobe Photoshop 3.0
___Altsys Fontographer 4.0
___KPT Bryce 2
___Fractal Design Painter 4.0
___Quark XPress 4.1
___Audion 3.0.2 (Classic)
___iTunes 2.0.4
___MIDIGraphy 1.4.3
___SoundApp PPC
___MacroMedia SoundEdit16 v2
___

X11 (other than Basilisk II)
___Mozilla 1.7.5
___The GIMP 1.2
___
Native Aqua Applications (other than VPC and vMac)
___The Dock (not normally running)
___Script Editor
___Audacity
___QuickTime Player
___Roxio Toast Titanium 5.2.1
___Safari
___Servoy Developer 2.0.4
___Activity Monitor (at this point showing 616 MB inactive, 35 MB Free, VM 16.82 GB)

Tried to bring it to a quick conclusion by throwing Adobe CS apps into the works, but they won't launch. System is definitely groaning now.


___Graphic Converter
___FileMaker Developer 6.0
___Eudora 6.0
___Shiira
___BBEdit Lite for OS X

Things are crashing now. Just lost X11 and something else. Time to take a screenshot of the Dock and close this mess down.

 

[ahunter3]

Round II

Starting out with Aqua apps and working back the other direction...

Shiira
BBEdit Lite for OS X
GraphicConverter
Eudora
FileMaker Developr 6.0

(those are already running, no sense in shutting them down to start this maneuver)

The Dock (not normally running)
Adobe Photoshop CS
Adobe GoLive CS
Extensis Suitcase X
QuarkXPress 6.5
Corel Bryce 5
FileMaker 8
FileMaker 7
Excel X SR 1
Servoy Developer 2.0.4
Witango Development Studio 5.0
Azureus
Camino 1.0
Citrix ICA Client
DEVONagent
Fetch 4.0.3
iCab 3
LimeWire
Firefox 1.5
NetFinder X
Netscape 7.2
Opera 8.5.1
Safari 2.0.3
Timbuktu Pro 6.0.1
Hogwasher 4.2.2
MS Remote Desktop Connection
Share My Desktop (VNC) 1.2
VNCThing 2.3
X-Chat Aqua 0.15
Airport Admin Utility
A Better Finder Rename 7
Activity Monitor
Console
Disk Utility
Fink Commander
HexEdit 1.8
hp Inkjet Utility
Pacifist
Retrospect
Script Editor
Theme Park
TinkerTool
Toast
Audacity
Audion 3
iDVD
DVD Player
DVD2oneX2
iMovie HD
Mac the Ripper
Morph X
MPEG Streamclip
QuickTime Player
RealPlayer
VLC
NeoOffice/J
AppleWorks 6
OmniPage Pro X
TextEdit
Printer Setup Utility

...girlfriend called to say "when the hell are you coming home?" I could otherwise put a few more on, it's sluggish but nothing is crashing yet

 

[wmmk]

geez, that must take mucho ram!!!

 

[Shamus]

I tried this about a month ago. I didnt know how to make a screenshot of expose at the time so i only have the dock. I got 52 apps or something running at the same time - I ran out of apps i could open . Not bad for an iBook i suppose.

 

[FF_productions]

Working on picture..sorry guys its taking forever to upload the picture!

I ran about 50-55 apps, and ran out of apps to run, it was slow as hell...

 

[SilentPanda]

I'm totally doing this when I get home. Do you just take a screen shot with expose like you would of the desktop? And can I layer my dashboard on top of expose?

 

[shrimpdesign]

*snip*

 

[shrimpdesign]

I tried opening every app when I got my new Intel iMac a few months ago ... and I took a screen shot in expose. But since I recently upgraded my RAM, and I can't find that screenshot, I tried it again.

I opened everything except desktop managers, games, and utilities like Spirited Away and Menushade.

 

[SilentPanda]

Probably more I guess but... here goes. I scaled the image to 75% of normal size so it'd upload. I do have World of Warcraft running...

I have two 20" screens with the left one turned 90 degrees hence the oddly shaped desktop. I also didn't open iDVD or iMovie just... because. I had a few other apps that I could've opened but yeah.... my Expose doesn't really look that interesting with all that space. Intel iMac 20" 2.0 Core Duo with 2 GB of RAM and 256 MB gfx card.

 

[iamhammill]

I managed to get 79 apps open on my 12" Powerbook, but didn't know how to take a pic in Expose. I tried cmd-shift-3, but didn't hear a click or anything. Didn't work when I tried taking a pic of my dock either. Any ideas?


EDIT: Semms that does work, system must have been too bogged down. I'll try it again in a couple mins.

EDIT2: Nope, won't take the screenshot with all 79 open. Oh well.

 

[elisha cuthbert]

Well i tried

I thought it would be fun to try so here you are, i got to stages of the operation and well lets just say it wasnt exactly lightning fast with 933mhz

 

[Gwardys]

I win.

 

[iHeartTheApple]

Here's my contribution! It's not the best, but I started running out of applications... I think there are about 36-ish apps open in the screenshot. This is on the PB in my signature...

 

[Lau]

I win.

You do indeed. That is rather beautiful.

 

[ZiggyPastorius]

Okay, so, I know I don't have my macbook yet, so I'm not technically a legal poster on this thread, but I really wanted to join, so I hope no one yells at me.

Basically, I'm running a 3-year windows PC, with 448MB of RAM and 2Ghz processor. I could BARELY open 18 programs, where people with macs the same specs as me were opening like 86. So, this just reminded me of one more reason why I can't wait to get my macbook.

List:

Finale
MSN with two windows open
Microsoft Word
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Powerpoint
Microsoft OneNote
Microsoft Publisher
Fruity Loops Studio
Steam
Opera with 4 tabs open
uTorrent
Safari
iTunes
Quicktime
Rocketdock

Pretty sad, really. Windows ftl

P.S. My computer is still lagging, like 7 minutes after I got all the programs closed.

Edit: I realised after posting, I resurfaced an ancient thread. Feel free to delete the post.

 

[lost eden]

Well, 2GiB of RAM, an ed session uses about 5 KBytes, so I reckon I can run it about 314572 times on top of OS X?

 

[iJawn108]

from a fresh start I've had all my apps on my computer running at once before.

 

[Aranince]

Just one. LOL. Obviously I'm kidding, but it would be nowhere near 50 apps, let alone 100; and this is an almost-top-of-the-line Dell.

Thats about as much windows can run before it starts crapping out. lol

 

[Zawamura]

Here are my apps Running the system that is in my sig. Didn't start World of warcraft and some other games ecause they are fullscreen.

 

[optimus prime]

all of them with the exception of a few such as iphoto and a bunch of other "i" programs