Open all applications in OS X

Mon, 24 September 2007

I just tried to open all applications in Applications folder on my iMac (2.0 GHz and 2 GB RAM) and it didn’t kill the machine. I went to Applications folder, selected all apps (Command-A) and double-clicked.

The result is on the picture below (in Expose). Yes, there were a few apps taking the focus with asking some questions and once andswered the computer ran OK.

all_apps.jpg

The cutest of all was the Dock, with icons jumping up and down, it looked like a 30 or 40 channel equaliser.

Stumble it!

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4 Responses to “Open all applications in OS X”

  1. Tommie Montana said: Mon, 24 September 2007 at 09:43

    As soon a I read this, off course I had to try it. After a minute or so every app was open in the dock, and iTunes and dashboard responded without problems, but it took another ten to fifteen minutes for everything to be completely open (like iweb, neooffice, garageband). It didn’t kill my iMac, and it’s nice to know that it can take a heavy beating. It was about 45 apps in my dock, and in expose photobooth seemed to work okay still.

    It’s the new aluminium iMac 20 inch 2.0 ghz by the way, with 1 gig of RAM (I plan to upgrade to 2 gig eventually).

  2. Brajeshwar said: Mon, 24 September 2007 at 14:55

    I tried to do the same when I saw the Picture from Digg. But I was impatient and aborted the task. Yes, it was awesome to see the dance of the apps on the dock when they opened. I was trying to open my 180+ applications and it was taking long for some applications to open.

  3. Jeremy D said: Tue, 25 September 2007 at 21:25

    Oh yeah, just had to try it (as you do). 56 items in the dock, all loaded and running in less than 2 minutes, awesome (24″ Ally iMac 2.8Ghz 4GB Ram).

  4. Armand said: Mon, 11 February 2008 at 17:22

    Just tried it on my new MBP 15.4 inch 2.2 GHZ intel core 2 duo, 2 GB DDR2 SD and nvidia geforce 8600 GT 128 GDDR3.

    Nothing happened to the computer itself. it didn’t get killed, crash, showed an error, the fans didn’t kick in at all ( I double checked with istat pro, and found out that temp and fan RPM remained at a constant and reliable rate). Of course the questions, or the dialog boxes, to be more precise, were pesky, but I had to manually answer them one by one to get rid of all of them and see the applications in action. After 6-7 minutes, I launched expose and expected that the animation would be slow.

    It wasn’t!

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