[:XI:]

It seems i need to put something in here.

Because, I'm curious to know.

I quit apps I'm not using. I have 1.25gb ram.

does it make a difference if i leave them open?

[ThisGuy]

i quit anything that i am not using or plan on using in the near future.

[tikki]

Safari, iChat, and Mail.app are always left open. Everything else is quit when I am done.

[MacGorilla]

I keep Mail, Safari and MS Word open, the latter because I am usually writing or thinking about writing so I like to keep Word handy.

[dampeoples]

I keep Safari, Mail, iChat, ircle and iTunes open, anything else I quit once I'm done with it

[G4ME]

same as the majority here, safari, itunes, mail but i am an adium man. also bit torrent (but thats usually doing somthing ) or a hot line/DC server.

[ARENA]

I usually leave eveything open, and i *only* have 1GB of RAM.

[Gul Banana]

I leave everything open (448 MB RAM).

[iXavier]

I leave iTunes open most of the time and Safari when working in other apps, but I close things like Word and Dreamweaver.

I do wash my hands during the day a lot, come to think of it, but that's because I'm handling money and people have dirty money.

x.

[todrain]

What about closing apps, but not washing for days?

[wdlove]

I usually keep FileMaker Pro & Internet Explorer open!

[Worst. Episode. Ever.]

I quit Microsoft apps as soon as possible after use. All others I leave running.

[Demonhood]

mozilla, terminal, itunes. and (often) Photoshop.

everything else gets closed, cleansed, and buffed.

1GB+

[Phanguye]

i leave safari, mail, ical, ichat, x11(with ethereal running), jEdit, and terminal open if i am plugged in to power

768

[Sherwin]

Mail.app, Safari, iCal, HogWasher, PhotoShop, GoLive, BBEdit, Word, Excel, TextEdit, OmniOutliner, iTunes, Terminal, Calculator, Key Caps, Preview, iPhoto, Stickies - all left open 24/7.

Even if I run something like Ghost Recon on top of that I find it makes no difference whatsoever whether I leave apps open or quit them.
This isn't Windows, you know.

1 Gb.

[:XI:]

I even quit apps before I log out.
From now on, I'm going to leave everything open. Until I log out. I'm such a rebel.

Maybe it's the windows user in me, going out of my way not to crash anything. Or, that is give windows any reason to crash.

[tooki]

On OS 9, I usually left everything open, since apps in the background aren't given very high priority.

On OS X, my machines struggle, so any app that's using more than 1% CPU when not in use gets nixed until I need it again.

(Once I get a spiffy new G5, I suppose I'll be able to leave everything open and not notice a thing!)

tooki

[spauldingg]

Corrrect me if I'm wrong, but I thought one of the selling points of X over 9 was that you could leave apps open with no ill effects if they weren't doing anything...

[boardsurfer]

Originally posted by tooki:
On OS 9, I usually left everything open, since apps in the background aren't given very high priority.

On OS X, my machines struggle, so any app that's using more than 1% CPU when not in use gets nixed until I need it again.

(Once I get a spiffy new G5, I suppose I'll be able to leave everything open and not notice a thing!)

tooki

768 - I leave everything open. unless it get too unruly. tunes, mail, safari, word, ical. , ,

[tooki]

The idle apps have no ill effects as far as system stability (which was the main reason for quitting unused apps in classic Mac OS). But idle apps can, and often do, sit there chewing up CPU cycles. For example, iTunes is stopped right now. It's doing nothing, yet sits there eating up between 1-15% CPU (it seems to bob up and down). AOL Instant Messenger idles at about 1%. Add another bunch of processes, and it adds up. At least on a slow G3 like this!

tooki

[Fallout]

iTunes, Synergy, Safari, and Fire are always open. If I go to do something CPU-intensive, I close 'em. It helps, with a slow G3 like mine.

512 mb.

[faragbre967]

Originally posted by G4ME:
same as the majority here, safari, itunes, mail but i am an adium man. also bit torrent (but thats usually doing somthing ) or a hot line/DC server.

What site do you use for Bit Torrent? I just discovered this program and it is amazing. I use torrentreacotr.com

[Apfhex]

Voted "I leave them open," but I wash my hands quite often.

It's practically a guarantee that I'll have iTunes open at any given time. Most of that time it's playing music. I also like to keep GraphicConverter and TextEdit open all the time since I use them often. I usually have Safari and some IM software (iChat, or maybe MSN Messenger) open too (but not always).

Sometimes I leave Photoshop open for a little TOO long (after doing some heavy work) and it takes ages to quit.

[Zimphire]

I have 1gig but I am a RAM miser. I quit anything I wont be using in the next 1/2 hour.

[Sosa]

I have a G3, only 384 Megs of Ram, and I leave everything I can open. From my experience the limiting factor is not CPU performance but RAM. My system runs fine with Safari, AW, iCal, Mail, YM, iChat, Terminal, CPU monitor, and VMeter running in hidden mode. However, open up Safari and everything goes to hell. However I'm too lazy to start quitting applications, or wash frequently.

I'm waiting for RAM prices to go down again.

[Webscreamer]

I keep Carracho Server, Carracho, iTunes, Mail, Safari, iChat, ICQ open 24/7.

I prob don't have to keep iChat open though since I got the menu bar thingy

[Superchicken]

I'm in OS 9 right now and I have

AIM, Dreamweaver, Finder, Fireworks, IE, iTunes, Mac Messanger (better than normal MSN which is crap) Mozilla, net finder, Photoshop Elements, Sherlock and Simple Text all open... I should quit sherlock, thing is within the next hour I'll probably use all of these... and since Photoshop, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, and Mozilla all take a good chunk of time to start I leave em open
I still have 19 megs of RAM left though so I don't care

I tend to run like this a lot, in OS X I tend to leave things running but hidden a lot.

But I do wash my hands a lot.