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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2003-10-28

It was after hearing one of my Mac-using acquaintances say "My computer is giving me 'sad Mac'" that I realized that it isn't that the Mac doesn't crash, it's that they make it so you can't talk about it without sounding like a three-year-old, so Mac users are just too embarassed to say so. -- [livejournal.com profile] doubleplus (thanks to [livejournal.com profile] sjo)

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And yet.....

posted by [identity profile] still-asking.livejournal.com at 08:06am on 2003-10-28
I've had my iBook for about 3 months now (my first Mac) and it has yet to truly crash - it has frozen 2 or three times, but no 'blue screen of death' (Is the mac's deathscreen even blue?)

The first time it froze up occurred very mixed feelings - while i was not happy about it, I was happy when I realized that this daily PC annoyance was now on a monthly schedule.

Maybe I had unusually bad luck with PC's???

- Karen
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Re: And yet.....

posted by [identity profile] doubleplus.livejournal.com at 11:34am on 2003-10-28
Hmm, depends what vintage of Windows it was. Windows 3.1 would definitely crash frequently in normal use. Windows 95/98 was/is much better, but still could have serious problems depending on what software you were running. Windows XP seems to be extremely stable; my XP laptop hasn't crashed in the year and a half I've had it, though it occasionally fails to resume from 'hibernating.' Ironically, I'm pretty sure that's caused by the software that Sony installs to keep track of system changes and help you diagnose problems, and gives you no way to uninstall.

I actually like Macs a lot; there's a lot of very well-designed Mac software. I just got tired of hearing Mac friends chortling over some Windows problem they'd heard about, while the problems with their computers (which I knew they had because I'd heard them gripe about them) somehow didn't "count."
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Re: And yet.....

posted by [identity profile] still-asking.livejournal.com at 07:47pm on 2003-10-28
Oh they count all right, I'm just saying that I personally have not had to count as high!

Chortling over others' computer problems is no better than chortling over any other sort of problems - unless the chortler was asked to give long detailed advice and then totally ignored.
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