ohmelas said:
Well,
As apple users would we expect anything less? Afterall what we do most with our Apples is use them while the PC guys fix them or reboot. Right. I'm typing this on my only PC. It crashes at least once a week. My Apple's are all running right now---haven't crashed in a month!
I don't know the last time my Win2k systems have crashed - it has to have been months (I use the laptop quite heavily every day).
I'm also not quite sure when the last time any of my OS X systems crashed, it's been quite a while (though my Soundsticks keep having a problem periodically ever since upgrading to Panther).
A friend (one that doesn't even know I own a Mac) sent me a video today, a takeoff on the Switch ads where a guy (who "edited and produced the video on [his] Macintosh") rambles on for five or so minutes about all the ways his Mac constantly crashes, behaves weirdly, etc. It was funny and... Not so much true.
Let's face it, folks, both platforms have gotten to the point where they're fairly stable. Win2k and WinXP have their problems (and some of them get REAL bad) that cause crashes, but so does OS X. And there's still a huge number of people running Win98, ME, and even 95 that still deal with that platform's problems (there are still people running, and crashing often under, OS 9, 8.6, etc) and which still crash a lot, but it's tough for me to feel too sorry for the guys still running Win95. In fact, I get the feeling that Windows has more problems because of the heavy saturation of cheap, sloppily written programs and device drivers than because of bugs introduced by Microsoft (though MS has to take at least part of the blame for making it so normal and almost expected to develop the cheap, badly written programs).
Anyway, my severely off-topic point is, stop picking on the PC guys about crashes. It's just not happening anymore (at least not that we can complain about). Find one of the other thousand things to pick on them about (sheep, crappy OS, scientific evidence that shows that prolonged exposure to Windows causes users to look more and more like a cross between Bill Gates and Steve "Uncle Fester" Balmer, etc =)
...Unless you're talking about Linux -- I love Linux as a server system, but it's
so not ready for the desktop.