I have never worked on a computer that crashes more than an Apple.
I have never worked on a computer that crashes more than an Apple.
That's an application crash, not a system crash. As long as you can do a Force-Quit, the system is still fine. Applications crash much more often than the entire system.
None of my Macs have had a true system crash in many years of daily operation. They've done it, but it's been years.
The same is true of my Win7 systems. Applications hang and screw up, but as long as you can use Task Manager and shut down the errant app, so what? Blame the app, not the computer.
> I have never worked on a computer that crashes more than an Apple.
Then you've got some really 3-sigma-out experiences. I've worked with all these systems for decades, and OS-X is the most stable of the bunch, except for plain text-mode BSD Unix.
Now, pre-OS-X Apples, that's entirely different. Mac OS prior to OS-X was a piece of crap, stability-wise. Of course, Win95/98/Me was even worse, but those were the 90's...
I don't know how to say this without sounding harsh, but that comment says much more about your limited experience than it says about Apple.
You have now entered the religion zone. Be prepared to be savaged by Mac zealots. "The OS never crashes - it is totally stable and we haven't rebooted for 3 years" and all that fantasy.
By the way, Guns, you might want to TRY reading the article... it was NOT an Apple computer that is being complained about crashing... it was a Nexus One mobile Phone platform running Google's AndroidOS. . . so your snarky comment missed the target completely.
Sorry your experience has been such.
For my 3 yr old Macbook it’s crashed once the whole time I had it & that was most likely my error.
My 6 month old mac mini has yet to crash.
I run pro-sound apps on both machines. It just works perfectly, every time.
Peace :)
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Ryan Stewart was demoing Flash Player 10.1 on a Nexus One
Since when did Apple start making the Nexus One? OH - wait - that device is Google's own hardware... you know - that much acclaimed (by Windoze and Google Spyware Fanboyz) OPEN SOURCE platform...
It blows me away how we here on FR argue, spit, and vent about how liberals defame conservatives and this nation - with their vitriol and extreme bias and lies. Then "we" tolerate the same kind of attitude towards a single manufacture - Apple.
As has been pointed out on FR by many users - Anti-Apple folks tend to post lies, incorrect data, and spew hate and vitriol like posters on DU on every even remotely Apple-related thread like clockwork. Almost all with (though your post is an exception in this case) the term "fanboyz/fanboys/fanboiz/and more variations on a spelling). Then many accuse Apple users of being the ones hateful - yet cannot point to a single truly hate-filled anti-Windows post by an Apple user.
I just don't buy your statement that you have never worked on a computer that crashes more than an Apple. I have seen a grand total of 10 or 11 crashes on Apple hardware in my 16 years of using Apple computers. Some were due to hard drive failure (not made by Apple), the rest were the result of software that created conflicts (back in the old pre OSX days). NONE were because of virus or trojan infections.
Have I seen a crash-prone Apple computer - yes. It was damaged from a fall off an end table (was a Powerbook). Motherboard was cracked where the power adapter plugged in. The thing would start to boot and hard crash.
How much time have you spent using a Macintosh? How many different machines? What time frame? What machines? What OS? Usually when I read or hear such stories - the experience is limited to one machine - and quite often back in the System 8 days or before.