[rwfromkansas]

Mac is expensive as usual......and not worth the money since they crash every other day in my experience

[roostercogburn]

I run OS X and no bull----, my iMac hasn't crashed since I bought it in late February.

[D-fendr]

Not really expensive - if you add up all that comes with it. ('course if all you need is bare-bones computing, it ain't for you.)

And since OSX, crashes and freezes are way, way, way down. I've had one in the last year and a half.

[Laserman]

I work on both machines and find just the opposite. My MAC will run for days without a hiccup, while my PC experiences some sort of system problem virtually every day. OSX is extremely stable and powerful. Yes, Macs cost a little more, but in my estimate, they are worth it.

[Nexus]

crash every other day in my experience

You must be referring to the pre-OSX days. OSX hasn't crashed in a year and a half here at work. The beauty is the inner OS9 shell - if your running an unstable OS9 application (which most of them are) and it crashes, OSX (the outer shell) keeps purring.

[tortoise]

Mac is expensive as usual......and not worth the money since they crash every other day in my experience

Expensive, yes. Crash? Hell, no. Not since the original 10.0 version of the operating system. It is pretty much bulletproof like its BSD underpinnings would suggest.

[Sir_Ed]

"Mac is expensive as usual......and not worth the money since they crash every other day in my experience"

I run OSX, and I get recoverable crashes maybe two times a day, and kernel panics maybe once a week.

Of course, I really push my G4, running Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, BBEdit and having 30-40 windows open at the same time in Safari...

I'm gonna try to get one of these gorgeous machines when it comes out!!

Ed

[gonewt]

When was the last time you used a Mac... 1989?

[TheBattman]

Your experience is obviously not recent - although quite honestly in MY experience, Every version of Windows I have every used has been more problem prone than the concurrent MacOS version at the time. The addition of the fact that Mac troubleshooting has traditionally been far simpler ----

Now, I will admit that troubleshooting under OS X is a bit more of a challenge - I have had to do so little, I haven't had much down time. Crashes under OS X are 99.5% caused by poor programming in 3rd party software. the other .5% comes from such things as a bad stick of RAM (#1 hardware problem with the last few generations of PowerMacintosh computers - most obvious since OSX which is a lot less tolerant of out-of-spec RAM).

[NH Liberty]

"Mac is expensive as usual......and not worth the money since they crash every other day in my experience"

LOL! You're kidding, right? Since we switched to Mac ten years ago, we've never had a crash! And we've had THREE different Macs, now. They all still run fantabulously, BTW; the only reason we've bought new ones is to catch-up with upgrades and internet speeds. Macs are a an absolute dream.

"I run OS X and no bull----, my iMac hasn't crashed since I bought it in late February.

Of course! As I said, we've had THREE Macs in the past 10 years -- a Performa, an iMac and now an eMac -- and we've never had a "crash". Conversely, my friends and nephews who still use IBM-compats are constantly frustrated with the never-ending breakdowns of one sort or another. I keep telling them (with a smile) to "just buy a Mac and forget about it!" but they all think they're getting a bargain with the cheaper choices.

Don't get me wrong; I am most certainly a Frugal Fanny. But I learned, eventually, that paying more up front for a Mac saves us not only in money but in exasperation time, as well.

[aruanan]

Mac is expensive as usual......and not worth the money since they crash every other day in my experience

In other words, you're two days old and have had one crash?