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- indyGuy, on 10/14/2007, -18/+96In the PC world, we call that a CRASH. Congratulations fanboys - welcome to the club.
- jamble, on 10/14/2007, -14/+77This article is surely inaccurate as we all know Macs are in fact perfect.
- Tippis, on 10/14/2007, -1/+51No, it doesn't make it "not true" -- it just makes you not affected.
- Nobiting, on 10/14/2007, -24/+66Strait from Apple.com "Your toaster doesn’t crash. Your kitchen sink doesn’t crash. Why should your computer? Think of the countless hours you would save if your PC worked on your time — not the other way around. Then think about a Mac."
- Ford_Prefect2nd, on 10/14/2007, -7/+46Welcome? The Macs have crashed all along... but the fanboys won't admit it. "Just Works" my ass.
- theoverlord, on 10/14/2007, -2/+38I just sent in a new iMac for just this reason. Annoying as hell.
- Tippis, on 10/14/2007, -8/+44So?
- pintomp3, on 10/14/2007, -1/+30phew, i was worried about your computer.
- uselessexpert, on 10/14/2007, -9/+38To be honest, whether is Vista or XP, I rarely experience a crash!
So suck it up fanboys. It can also happen in your perfect little world. - ekin09, on 10/14/2007, -3/+31Maybe, but I don't have any issues with my PC either. Furthermore, in the 13 years I've been using a PC not once have I been affected by a virus, but I am not going to start denying that other PC users do not have problems with their machines... You Apple fan boys are a joke.
- inactive, on 10/14/2007, -20/+47I think what you mean to say is that Macs suck.
- littlejoe, on 10/14/2007, -2/+27It happened to me. The freezing would be very infrequent and got much worse over time. It got to a point where it would freeze within a minute of reboot. Took it back to the Apple Store and they just swapped it for a new one on the spot.
- estvir, on 10/14/2007, -3/+27I'm currently also on 7.10 Beta1 and I haven't had a single crash (Though I have other small problems) but I managed to refrain from posting a retarded comment like yours.
You're no better than the Apple fanboys, by the way. - quomen, on 10/14/2007, -5/+29Yeah, the thing about Apple marketing is that it's so F***king deceptive. My girlfriend's macbook CD drive isn't working and sucks balls and she's so frustrated because she thought that macs don't break! SIGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHH.
- seraph582, on 10/14/2007, -6/+30pffft - "your toaster doesn't crash"
Well if it did, would there be lots of trendwhores foaming at the mouth to buy alternative, trendy aesthetically pleasing, yet functionally neutered toasters? Would some douchebag in a black turtleneck start a toaster revolution? Beginning it all with an iToaster and preaching like a cult leader about how much better they are since they run on a different platform, only to abandon that platform, go to the *Exact same platform* that every other toaster has been on for decades, but still claim that his aesthetically pleasing toasters are really all that different just despite the fact that it toasts bread not quite as well as regular, supposedly "unstable" and "frustrating" toasters? - Kitsune818, on 10/14/2007, -1/+24Eeep! - BOMB ICON - Sorry, a system error has occured. To temporarily turn off extensions, restart and hold down the shift key (Restart)
Although to be fair I've never crashed OS X.. but Macs are not infallible. I've never totally locked up XP either, that I remember. - merwin, on 10/14/2007, -1/+24That argument is stupid. Using your logic, Windows never crashes either! Only apps that make use of the API's cause it to crash. It's not the operating system's fault!
And the poster asked if Mac's never crashed, not OS X. - Ford_Prefect2nd, on 10/14/2007, -1/+24Becuase the comment is pointless. Either your telling us info about your life that does not effect us (you might as well write "yeah, but I like Capt. Crunch" which may be true, but you'd get Dugg down for that too). Or your offering info to the storey. Do you think by saying yours does not crash, it therefore means that the storey is not true? Sorry friend, but thats just silly. That would be like saying that Apple Laptops did not explode last year, becuase yours did not. Or to say that the Xbox 360 doesn't Multi colour ring of death, becuase yours doesn't.
- indyGuy, on 10/14/2007, -0/+21THIRD MOTHERBOARD, on a Mac? Say it isn't so!
- tdelet, on 10/14/2007, -5/+25Impossible. The Mac simply knows the correct time to for a break...you wouldn't understand, it's all about the design.
- Ford_Prefect2nd, on 10/14/2007, -1/+21Right... well Windows never Blue Screens either. It's when you manually **** with the hardware and put in third party (not made by Microsoft) faulty stuff that cuases blue screening. Gods I hate fan boys, you'll excuse everything and pass the buck on anything you can't.
- Tippis, on 10/14/2007, -2/+22Ah, OS 9, how I miss thee...
Hmm... let me *crash* just *crash* see if I can *crash*lockup*crash* open this *crash* file... *bomb* ;D - j83com, on 10/14/2007, -4/+23Are you kidding?
They don't stand behind their products.
I have a 2002 ibook full of problems.
All they did to me was deny, deny, deny. And after 2 logic boards and a HD the thing still doesn't work.
I gave up fighting with them years ago, my solution...I haven't bought an apple product since.
Perfect example.
The keyboard started smelling like bad B.O. I though I was crazy, called tech support. They treated me like I was, and they said "never heard of this, must just be you".
But, after some googling I found many other users with the same problem. They were being treated the same way.
I bought my first PC shortly after and I haven't looked back. - toetagger, on 10/14/2007, -14/+31In other news: Users who tried to switch from at&t as their ISP is having brick issues with their desk tops.
- gl77, on 03/31/2008, -7/+23HA HA!
/Nelson - EnterDaMatrix, on 10/14/2007, -3/+17Why would should a BSD OS require more than 256 MB RAM to not crash? I've used KDE on top of FreeBSD on an old P3 with 128MB of RAM and it was a smooth experience to say the least.
- Boondoggle, on 10/14/2007, -0/+14Especially in the OS 9 days.
Did you ever use OS 9? - brufleth, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Digg mentality: When windows has the problem it is an OS bug. When it happens on a Mac it is user error. When it happens in Linux you're a retard who just needs to search some forums.
- TheUngod, on 10/26/2007, -0/+13Wow well that just makes other peoples issues totally meaningless. Thank you for that useful comment.
- rimantas, on 10/14/2007, -0/+12Your freezer freezess - why shouldn't your Mac?
- quomen, on 10/14/2007, -5/+17I use Vista.
- toxicityj, on 10/10/2007, -6/+18I use macs at school on a daily basis, but I'm a Windows user at home. I have more issues with OS X freezing up and being retarded than I do with Vista. honest to God. and if you don't believe in god..then..Honest to Jon Stewart.
- MacParrot, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11What? You don't like Cap'n Crunch? The Quaker Oats fanboys will get you for that.
- mleaman, on 10/14/2007, -2/+13heat heat heat
- tdelet, on 10/14/2007, -0/+11Perhaps it's a sign that the users aren't cool enough to use Macs and the machines, having achieved a state of awareness, are revolting in the hopes of getting cooler owners.
- drinking12many, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11Ive been an administrator of both macs and windows, they both have their bugs. Anyone whose ever really worked on a bunch of both machine types can tell you they both freeze crash etc its the nature of the beast... and it keeps me employed :)
- goflyers, on 10/26/2007, -0/+10 It looks like your Shift, Apostrophe, and Period keys are broken on your new iMac.
I don't usually say anything about punctuation, but I couldn't resist. - dondara, on 10/14/2007, -5/+15From the article, sounds like ATI drivers may be to blame. Wow, who would have ever thought that ATI stuff would screw up?
Do I even need the sarcasm tag? - MacParrot, on 10/14/2007, -0/+10Not with OS9 it wasn't
- stronglikedan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11iFreeze?
- omnibahumut, on 10/14/2007, -7/+17If you think that anything you own is flawless, then you deserve to have it break on you.
- ElbowGeek, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Typical engineering meeting with Steve Jobs:
Engineer: Here's the layout for the new iMac boards...
Jobs: I don't like that graphics chip there. Move it here.
E: But if we do that we'll have overheating problems, freezing, etc.
J: I don't care, I don't like the way that looks. Move it. Now.
E: *Sigh*
Consumer: GRRRRRRRRRR!
And yes, there are documented meetings in which just this sort of thing has occurred. That's why my G5 iMac would shut down after about half an hour, and finally I had to hack it so the CPU fan stays full-on full-time.
But hey, the thing looks gorgeous ;-) - inactive, on 10/14/2007, -8/+17My iBook started doing this on its third motherboard - I assumed it was a software issue because it needs its cache clearing to get spotlight working properly again. Looks like it might just be an OS X thing.
Still, at least it's not a dodgy Compaq with a 60 minute battery... - rootstyle, on 10/14/2007, -0/+9If its anything like my iPod, and those of atleast 3 different friends, thats within 6 months of the warranty ending.
- burty89, on 10/14/2007, -0/+9A perfect OS would never crash no matter what a user did... Unfortunately, there is no perfect OS.
- vinayshivakumar, on 10/14/2007, -4/+13Never used a mac before...But i wonder...Does the mac never crash at all ????
- betobeto, on 10/14/2007, -2/+11I don't know where did the "doesn't crash" myth came from. But what I do know is that if I don't give my Macbook a good reboot every week or so, it starts acting wonky - and this from someone who runs cron jobs and stuff on it. The "doesn't crash" myth has never been true, not even in the OS 9 days.
- imikedaman, on 10/14/2007, -0/+9I own two 12" PowerBook G4s (867 MHz and 1.33 GHz), and they both have the same annoying issues: overheating, a red-tinged screen that calibration couldn't fix, the silver paint peeling off to expose some smelly black crap, missing keys on the keyboard, a nearly-dead battery, popping speakers that are only partially functional, and DVD drive that sorta works but is really wonky.
I was talking to my friend about it, and it turns out his old PowerBook G4 has so many similar issues to the point of being creepy. I bought my uncle a 1.5 GHz 15" PowerBook G4 a few years back, and he replaced that thing within a year due to "a bunch of annoying issues". Gee, I wonder what he meant by that.
Oh, and my 1.33 GHz one stopped working last week. It looks like the overheating finally fried something on the motherboard. - Tippis, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8...and to think that back in the 9800 days, ATI driver quality was *way* ahead of nVidia. How the mighy have fallen :(
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