Macs NEVER crash...

**The_Other_One** · 02-01-2006, 04:43 AM

Or do they?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...50780177790445

If you people are wondering, my Mini isn't NEARLY as stable as my old macs where. However, it's all software problems. Talk to any prior macintosh user and they'll tell you how bad OSX is. I need to try Mac OS 10 sometime as I heard it was much better. I know my old machines that had OS 8.1 were rock solid

They...just couldn't do anything... Old 100MHz POS's

Motoxrdude · 02-01-2006, 04:46 AM

Yea i have never had a Mac crash on me
-The tabaco company ROFL

Xycron · 02-01-2006, 03:41 PM

the Macs that were in my elemtery school used to rach ALL THE TIME.

**The_Other_One** · 02-01-2006, 03:46 PM

Mine raches all the time too ;P LOL

**dragon2309** · 02-01-2006, 04:57 PM

the only mac i ever got to use was my uncles old iMac, 500Mhz OS8.1, and yeh, it sucked, it couldnt do much either apart from crash.

I havent experienced any newer ones to say whether they are better or worse than older ones

stalex111 · 02-01-2006, 05:10 PM

MACS never crash! PC's with Windows on it ALWAYS DO!
But i prefer pc's anyway! Why? cuz i never had a mac.
Apparently the're better for graphic's designing and all. My sister wants to be a film maker, and she might get one.

**dragon2309** · 02-01-2006, 06:38 PM

im sorry, i really dont understand why everyones saying that, if you keep windows secure (properly secure) and updated to the last minute it does NOT crash.... People seem to have it stuck in their mind that it crashes every 5 mnutes, this i believe is due to the reusty days of 95/98/Me and to some extent still 2k. If your running one of those OS's then you deserve it to crash.

Anyway, most crashes are caused by the user, if your sitting there watching a blank desktop its not gonna crash, so how can you say IT crashed when it failed wehn YOU were controlling it....??? That gets me quite annoyed, windows is perfectly stable if you know how to use it and preserve it properly...

dragon2309

atomic · 02-01-2006, 07:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stalex111

MACS never crash! PC's with Windows on it ALWAYS DO!

I cant remember the last time XP crashed on me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by dragon2309

im sorry, i really dont understand why everyones saying that, if you keep windows secure (properly secure) and updated to the last minute it does NOT crash.... People seem to have it stuck in their mind that it crashes every 5 mnutes, this i believe is due to the reusty days of 95/98/Me and to some extent still 2k. If your running one of those OS's then you deserve it to crash.

Agreed, I used to hate windows 98 it would crash on me every 10-20 minutes or so. Since ive been using XP i have never really had any issues when it comes to stability.

**The_Other_One** · 02-01-2006, 07:19 PM

Windows 98 was actually a very good OS. Well, if you had SE, it is still one of the better ones from MS, by far better than ME...

XP has been farily good for me. If you get a good install of XP SP2, things usally work quite well. The last problem I had with my laptop was with firefox/java. However, I'm basically beta testing a new version of WebCT(ironically called WebCT Vista!) so it was probably what caused the lockup.

As for my mac, I actually have loads of problems with it. It tends to randomly slow down until I reboot, I've had programs just hang, I've had Finder to hang and not re-open...lots of problems. I know I"m fairly new to OSX, but it's by far worse than OS 8 or so... Talk to any previous mac user, and they'll tell you how good OS 10 was. OS X is unix based, right? Basically anything prior to the change was pretty good...

Oh yeah, and compatability. I got a copy of Premiere 6.5 to try on my mac. It works great untill you try to export -.- As many people know, Premiere 6.5(and probably lower) still works just fine on XP.

Yasu · 02-01-2006, 07:27 PM

XP Pro has never crashed on me. The only problem I have is that Firefox won't save my settings, that's it.

02-01-2006, 04:43 AM	#1 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 23 Posts: 12,364	Macs NEVER crash... Or do they? http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...50780177790445 If you people are wondering, my Mini isn't NEARLY as stable as my old macs where. However, it's all software problems. Talk to any prior macintosh user and they'll tell you how bad OSX is. I need to try Mac OS 10 sometime as I heard it was much better. I know my old machines that had OS 8.1 were rock solid They...just couldn't do anything... Old 100MHz POS's __________________ Desktop * Athlon X2 4200 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| 7600GT Laptop1 * C2D T5550 \| 3G RAM \| 120G HD \| Intel x3100 Laptop2 * C2D T5250 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| Intel x3100

02-01-2006, 04:46 AM	#2 (permalink)
Motoxrdude Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Nor Cal Age: 17 Posts: 5,970	Yea i have never had a Mac crash on me -The tabaco company ROFL __________________ RIP Mom 9/17/55-02/22/08.

02-01-2006, 03:46 PM	#4 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 23 Posts: 12,364	Mine raches all the time too ;P LOL __________________ Desktop * Athlon X2 4200 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| 7600GT Laptop1 * C2D T5550 \| 3G RAM \| 120G HD \| Intel x3100 Laptop2 * C2D T5250 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| Intel x3100

02-01-2006, 04:57 PM	#5 (permalink)
dragon2309 P.I Dragon Join Date: May 2005 Location: KENT, UK Age: 19 Posts: 8,332	the only mac i ever got to use was my uncles old iMac, 500Mhz OS8.1, and yeh, it sucked, it couldnt do much either apart from crash. I havent experienced any newer ones to say whether they are better or worse than older ones __________________ Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.1Ghz - (__CPU__) eVGA 680i SLi - (__MOB__) 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-800 (4x1024Mb) - (__RAM__) 250Gb Western Digital SATAII 7200rpm - (__HDD__) nVidia BFG 8800GTS OC 320Mb - (__GFX__) LG DVD+/-RW 18x DVD-RAM - (__OPT__) Triple Boot - [XP Pro] + [Vista Ultimate] + [Ubuntu 7.10] - (__OS__) [3DMARK'03 :: 25,587] --- [3DMARK'05 :: 13,989] --- [3DMARK'06 :: 8791] - (__BENCHMARKS__) dragon2309.co.uk - a little slice of geek

02-01-2006, 05:10 PM	#6 (permalink)
stalex111 Platinum Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Switzerland Age: 17 Posts: 499	MACS never crash! PC's with Windows on it ALWAYS DO! But i prefer pc's anyway! Why? cuz i never had a mac. Apparently the're better for graphic's designing and all. My sister wants to be a film maker, and she might get one. __________________ FACT: GOOGLE doesn't know all, GOOGLE only knows about 4% of the web... But rely on GOOGLE to know everything you need. ~"There are 10 different types of people in the world. Those who understand binary and those who don't"~

02-01-2006, 03:41 PM	#3 (permalink)
Xycron banned Join Date: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,099	the Macs that were in my elemtery school used to rach ALL THE TIME.

02-01-2006, 06:38 PM	#7 (permalink)
dragon2309 P.I Dragon Join Date: May 2005 Location: KENT, UK Age: 19 Posts: 8,332	im sorry, i really dont understand why everyones saying that, if you keep windows secure (properly secure) and updated to the last minute it does NOT crash.... People seem to have it stuck in their mind that it crashes every 5 mnutes, this i believe is due to the reusty days of 95/98/Me and to some extent still 2k. If your running one of those OS's then you deserve it to crash. Anyway, most crashes are caused by the user, if your sitting there watching a blank desktop its not gonna crash, so how can you say IT crashed when it failed wehn YOU were controlling it....??? That gets me quite annoyed, windows is perfectly stable if you know how to use it and preserve it properly... dragon2309 __________________ Intel Core2Duo E6600 @ 3.1Ghz - (__CPU__) eVGA 680i SLi - (__MOB__) 4Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2-800 (4x1024Mb) - (__RAM__) 250Gb Western Digital SATAII 7200rpm - (__HDD__) nVidia BFG 8800GTS OC 320Mb - (__GFX__) LG DVD+/-RW 18x DVD-RAM - (__OPT__) Triple Boot - [XP Pro] + [Vista Ultimate] + [Ubuntu 7.10] - (__OS__) [3DMARK'03 :: 25,587] --- [3DMARK'05 :: 13,989] --- [3DMARK'06 :: 8791] - (__BENCHMARKS__) dragon2309.co.uk - a little slice of geek

02-01-2006, 07:19 PM	#9 (permalink)
The_Other_One Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Lexington, NC Age: 23 Posts: 12,364	Windows 98 was actually a very good OS. Well, if you had SE, it is still one of the better ones from MS, by far better than ME... XP has been farily good for me. If you get a good install of XP SP2, things usally work quite well. The last problem I had with my laptop was with firefox/java. However, I'm basically beta testing a new version of WebCT(ironically called WebCT Vista!) so it was probably what caused the lockup. As for my mac, I actually have loads of problems with it. It tends to randomly slow down until I reboot, I've had programs just hang, I've had Finder to hang and not re-open...lots of problems. I know I"m fairly new to OSX, but it's by far worse than OS 8 or so... Talk to any previous mac user, and they'll tell you how good OS 10 was. OS X is unix based, right? Basically anything prior to the change was pretty good... Oh yeah, and compatability. I got a copy of Premiere 6.5 to try on my mac. It works great untill you try to export -.- As many people know, Premiere 6.5(and probably lower) still works just fine on XP. __________________ Desktop * Athlon X2 4200 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| 7600GT Laptop1 * C2D T5550 \| 3G RAM \| 120G HD \| Intel x3100 Laptop2 * C2D T5250 \| 2G RAM \| 160G HD \| Intel x3100

02-01-2006, 07:27 PM	#10 (permalink)
Yasu Diamond Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: TX Age: 20 Posts: 1,199	XP Pro has never crashed on me. The only problem I have is that Firefox won't save my settings, that's it. __________________ CPU: Intel P4 3.0 HT Mobo: ASUS P5P800 RAM: 2x512 PC3200 VC: ATI Radeon X850PRO HDD: 160GB Seagate SATA PSU: 500watt Ultra X-connect

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