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Mac OS X Running 200 Apps Keeps the Race Going

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In case anybody is keeping the count in this dumb bragging race, here’s an image of Mac OS X running two hundred apps at once, breaking the previous 150-app record.

https://gizmodo.com/vista-running-108-apps-bites-mac-os-x-back-377255

The new silly mark was set on a 20-inch 2007 iMac, with a 2.4ghz Core 2 Duo and 4 Gigabytes of RAM. It took about 15 minutes to open all apps, and I guess 15 more minutes to put all the windows in ExposĂ© mode. The reader who sent this says that he “was able to talk on video chat while opening everything, even while the video froze at some times for just a few seconds.” One thing he noticed: The dock can’t get beyond 100 applications.

Click to viewAnd what I still can’t get is how people have the patience to collect 200 apps just to run them at once. [Thanks Hawkskater0]

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