Then why are many publishing businesses switching away from Macs? We covered this before - we did a national training conference. The guy at the paper that put it on was using a PC. A group still using MAC asked him about a problem. When it all got sorted out, one of the other locations said they had that problem also until they got rid of the Macs.
Live in a cave if you want to. Go ahead, shoot the messenger if it makes you feel better. One day, though, you will finally get around to answering the question, what is the need for a Mac when a PC will do the same job with far less expense and far fewer conflicts with the rest of the world?
Do you really think that any advantage a Mac might have is going to be noticed in publication graphics. Get real. Maybe back in the early 90's when there was a detectable graphics difference between the two systems. But not today.
YOu could not tell the difference between art produced on a Mac or a PC when that art hits the finished product. Again, answering the question would show you to be operating on more than just emotion.
Bj, I make my living supporting and fixing software and hardware issues on both PCs and Macs... including several publishing houses and printing businesses. I find my clients wtih PCs have FAR more problems than do the clients with Macs. That is the real world I live in, no cave. There is no emotion attached. I make a heck of a lot more money servicing my PC clients and solving THEIR problems than I do serving the Mac clients.
What you describe as your experience does not agree with my experience or my clients' experiences.
I did a Google search of "Roundhouse +Mac +crash" and only came up with YOUR vanity complaint thread on FreeRepublic (which you might do well to re-read) that was responsive to Roundhouse as software. That should tell you something about how uncommon your problem really is.
Your private post to me listed, again, things that were not responsive. Saying your are running a "G5" covers about 8 different Mac models. You have not told me how much RAM is in your machine or what VERSION of OSX (10.2, 10.3, 10.4. along with the third decimal iteration) it is running. Also, what version of the software that is crashing, etc. What version of Quark? What version of Illustrator? What version of Photoshop?
I was using both windows and a power Mac for years. I found the Mac reasonably stable compared to that God awful Sony Viao windows computer. Nothing I ever experienced in life was as screwed up on so many levels as that piece of crap,...and I worked for Government for a whole two years.