Wow! 4 months, no crashes

[ThinkPad]

Well I've had my iBook four months now, and have yet to have it crash. My wife took over my IBM ThinkPad, and usually has to reboot once a day. I have to reboot my brand new Dell at work probably 1-2 times a day average.

This is my first Mac, and I think I can definitely say there won't be a new PC in this house again. My wife is hinting that she needs the new G4 iMac now too :)

[Thundarr]

OSX has been wonderful in that regard. I have had one kernel panic in the fourteen months that I have been using OSX. And that was the result of an external hard drive falling off a shelf and disconnecting quite violently from my computer. The rest has been the blissful peace of no system crashes. I can live with that.

[pyrohotdog]

I have had my iMac DV 400mhz on OS X since it was officialy released, and I have never had it crash, and never had any problems.

Well ThinkPad welcome to the world of Mac, I hope that pretty soon there will be more people like you that will discover the power and stability of Mac OSX and we can finaly rid the world of Windows forever...:D ;):rolleyes:

[Mikey-San]

Here here!

I'm on my seventh month of not having a system crash (well, except when I boot back into 9 for some games), and it's absolutely awesome.

Other great benefits of OS X's stability include:

- Rubbing it in Windows users' faces when they rattle off how bad the Mac is or how awesome Windows 2000 or XP are;
- Being able to get work done, and KNOW you can beat the system to death if you have to, without fear of one unruly app (cough, IE, cough) coming down and killing MS Word and that propsal you're writing in it;
- And the chicks love a guy who can stay up ALL DAY LONG. ;-)

Mmm ... Unix! :-D


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Mikey-San

[pyrohotdog]

i'm with ya Mikey

its funny listening to Winbloze users complaining about their computers and frequent crashs. I love it.

[Phil St. Romain]

I've been using OS X since Public Beta in the Fall of 2000 and have had only one system crash, and that last week, and that from a hack that was totally incompatible with the OS.

I averaged four or so system crashes a week in OS 9. Very annoying!

[petey]

the stability really is amazing. i feel like i'm using a UNIX system or something.

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3 crashes in 6 months:

- kernal panic traceable to bad USB drivers in classic
- kernal panic unexplained
- windowserver crash unexplained

[Ron Goodman]

You are using a Unix system.

[petey]

ron,

no. really. i'm not joking.

the stability is so amazing that i almost believe Apple based the OS on UNIX.

[pyrohotdog]

um, ok. that went faaaaaaar over my head.:confused:
You ARE using a Unix system, open up /Applications/Utillities/Terminal.app and take a look.;)

[sonderpa]

Petey, take a look here (http://www.apple.com/macosx/technologies/darwin.html) at Apple's site. Clear enough? :D

[petey]

c'mon people. if OS X were really UNIX based, wouldn't there be a terminal application?

[Craig R. Arko]

I think Quark Xpress qualifies as a "terminal application", doesn't it? :D

BTW, it's 'kernel' panic. :p

[6drums]

Yes, OS X is better than previous Mas OS's. But for a REAL challenge, you guys should go over to the Sharkey Forums to try to convert the masses there.

http://www.sharkyforums.com/

You'll get a lot of heated arguments and Mac-bashing from the PeeCee drones, saying how great their Athlon & P4 chips are, how much better XP and NT is, etc.

Us Mac Heads already know what's up - but the trick is: getting the world of Windows user's to see the light...then maybe this world will get something done!