on 03/06/26 00:51, cheshirekat at cheshirekat at cheshirekat.com wrote: > Anyone ever had so many > applications open that opening one more they immediately noticed > decreased performance? Since you asked, I just looked and saw that I now have 32 applications open. I do not notice any performance problem when using applications which spend most of their time waiting for my keyboard input like Office X, the CodeWarrior editor, BBedit, ConceptDraw, Acrobat Reader. However, if I ever do something like importing real-time digital video using iMovie, or if my son tries to play one of his games, the video starts coughing and choking until we quit all other applications. I have a 800 MHz with 1 GB RAM.