What are your must-have apps?
justlearning: i believe you mean desktop apps?
does browser count as app? if so, then all I need is chrome. I have several desktop apps created from chrome for various web apps.
other than that,skype,intellij/netbeans/eclipse(one of them running)notepad++ (anything and everything -editor)sumatrapdfdropboxtiddlywikiflashnote (for windows) else evernote