Poll: How many apps do you have open on average?

[Techhie]

On average, how many applications to do have open on your Mac?

 

[lunari]

On average, how many applications to do have open on your Mac?

4

Firefox
Mail
Adium
iTunes

Then again, I occasionally have 20+ firefox windows open

Edit: 5, forgot about transmission

 

[GoCubsGo]

MP
iTunes
Safari
Citrix
Firefox
Photoshop
Mail
iChat
Voila
iCal
Word
iPhoto


MB Air
Safari
Mail
iCal
iChat
Voila
iTunes
iPhoto

Mini
Plex
Safari
iTunes

 

[Techhie]

Apps I usually have open:

Safari
iChat
iTunes
Ventrilo
Seesmic Desktop
Mail
Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop CS4
Soundtrack Pro, sometimes Logic
Xchat
Vmware fusion
terminal
Netnewswire

 

[calderone]

MP:
Pages
Safari
Coda
Photoshop
Aperture
Terminal
Preview
Server Admin
ARD
Mail
JEDict
Ultralingua
Preview

Air:
Terminal
Safari
iTunes
Preview
Pages
ARD

Mini Server:
Usually nothing, unless I am making some changes, but it does a lot none the less.

Mini HTPC:
Plex

MB:
Not sure what my fiancee is running most of the time. Probably similar to my Air.

 

[craighton]

MacPro:
iChat
Safari
Colloquy
Fusion
Photoshop CS4
Dreamweaver CS4
TweetDeck
Ventrilo
Office Mail
Terminal
iTunes
Skype

would say more but too lazy...

 

[Mew2468]

5: I typically have Firefox, iChat, iTunes, TweetDeck and Pages open.

 

[neebong]

On average, how many applications to do have open on your Mac?

On a normal day probably

Safari
Firefox
iTunes
Last.Fm
Yahoo Msg
Micro*****e Messenger (only reason i dont use Adium cause it wont work through my work proxy)
iTerm
Mail
Thunderbird
Seesmic
Lotus Notes
Photoshop
Quark Express and (through fighting cause i dont like) Indesign

 

[/dev/toaster]

Safari
Mail.app
OmniFocus
Twitterrific
NetNewsWire
iTunes
Data guardian
Adium
Skype
Firefox
Chromium
Coda
VMWare (2 VMs going)
Photoshop
OmniGraffle
Sequel Pro
Color Schemer Studio
Terminal
SmartSVN
Charles
Transmission

Kind of a light day

 

[macbook yes]

Firefox
iCal
iChat
Word

 

[Richard1028]

Safari
Mail
iCal
OpenOffice

Not many for me but the operative word being "open", the above are my mainstays and the ones I'm generally multitasking with. I'll open/close others throughout the day of course.

 

[5DollaFootlong]

safari, hulu desktop, word, mail, and itunes.

 

[MacManiac76]

Safari and/or Firefox
Mail
Adium
Skype
NetNewsWire
iTunes

Other apps are open occasionally, but the above are open all the time.

 

[iBookG4user]

Usually 9 at a time:
Adium
Safari
Mail
Lightroom
Word
Coolbook
Activity Monitor
iCal
iTunes

 

[mac2x]

Safari
Mail
Xcode
Terminal
iTunes
OpenOffice (or something from iWork '09; usually Pages)
Finale 2009
Activity Monitor
smcFancontrol

On occasion:
Firefox
iCal
Console
Keynote
Address Book

 

[jav6454]

3... MSN messenger, Safari and Mail

 

[electroshock]

Usually Safari and Terminal at any given time unless I need to run Photoshop CS3, Final Cut, Lightroom 2, and related apps. iTunes if doing something with my iPhone, obviously.

If really, really bored, I might -- just to entertain buddies -- go to /Applications, cmd-a to select all, then cmd-o to run every single application there. And waiiiiittttttt. The Dock looks truly impressive when you do that. It's very impressive when Terminal reports 10 MB free memory! Even more so when the system is still running, although not very speedily with about 180 apps running concurrently. The screenshot of that is something to behold because the row of tiny app icons doesn't even begin to cover all the apps actually running.

(In Leopard, I had to force a power cycle uncleanly because I lost control of the 4 GB MBP. In Snow Leopard, I didn't have to do this.)

 

[mac2x]

You definitely have too much time on your hands if you are doing that...now how about trying that on an octo-core Nehalem Mac Pro with 32 GB of RAM? Would be interesting to see how it would behave!

 

[bristleworm]

iTunes, Safari, Mail, Adium, Pages, Numbers, iCal