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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Between you and me, I really don't think you want to get into a "how often they crash or break down" conversation in the PC vs Mac world.
Aside from that, if you had two Apple computers literally break down to the point of non-repair, for absolutely no reason, the you should be buying lottery tickets every week.
The price thing is a valid argument. Not everyone sees the value in spending $1500 for a laptop, but the crash test comparison is left field at best.
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I'm not so sure I agree with you on this. I've recently started using a Mac, a couple of weeks ago, and I've been plagued with a myriad of crashes and hangs. And pretty serious ones too. I expected it to be much more stable based on the reputation that Mac has.
Two days ago, I had a kernel panic installing a simple OS update. A week or so ago I had an issue where the the computer became totally unresponsive -- apps wouldn't launch when I clicked them, shell command would just hang, etc -- the only way I could get around it was to reboot, but within 10-15 minutes it would return, so I had to reboot every 10-15 minutes. Seriously annoying.
As for the apps, I also couldn't use the default Mail application that comes pre-installed. It worked fine for a few minutes then inexplicably die with no error messages. I also had a spreadsheet that would crash excel upon opening it. Trying to install Office as well, got me into an infinite loop in the installer -- it would tell me that I need rosetta, click ok to install, so I did then it said there was another update in progress (there wasn't) and would bounce me back to the rosetta install menu again.
I realize this is all anecdotal evidence, but my switch to Mac has been less than seamless. I like the OS -- its nicely laid out, clean, easy to use, but the wealth of problems I've encountered are certainly souring my impression of Mac.