Trust me, I've been forced to admit much worse things in life and have been ridiculed for them just because I believe that an
Arya Samaaji shouldn't lie. The last thing I would do is lie over such a trivial issue.
In fact, I think that even if a Mac crashes every once in a while, it would be fine. No computer is perfect. I'm sure that, like drgrudge said, some people's Macs do crash sometimes.
But there's a different between
sometimes and once every week or two. I have a Windows based PC right next to me that we don't boot even if we have something damn important to do and the Mac is busy being used for something else. We'd rather wait that press that dreaded button on that PC.
Here's what happens if we do:
1. It takes over a minute to show the desktop.
2. Several programs start up after that, which takes well over
five minutes.
3. Almost every time I use that machine, my patience given way within those five minutes and I move the mouse or hit a key on the keyboard and BAM! It gets stuck. Now there is no option but to do a cold restart.
4. If it's my brother using the computer, who's used to it, he'll wait out those five minutes and then double click Internet Explorer or Opera. Another thirty-forty seconds later, some part of the window shows up, followed by the whole thing in bits and pieces over the course of the next minute.
... You can probably see where this is headed. I know we have to reinstall Windows and everything will be fine, for the next two months. But it will be back to this same stage after that. Rinse and repeat. I'm so freaking frustrated of this whole routine that I've decided not to touch that computer.
We're waiting for the iMac line to be refreshed with the Penryn processors so that we can replace this stupid thing.
Compared to that, a crash once every month sounds like heaven to me. Thankfully enough, I don't even have to suffer through that.
FWIW, it should be quite obvious but, apart from updating to Leopard and trying the two beta releases in between, I've never had to do a reinstall of the OS either. When I used Tiger, I would sometimes get stuck when the machine resumed from sleep and would have to put it back to sleep and resume it again for it to work. That's the
only harassment I used to have with my Mac and even that has been put to rest with Leopard.
@Arya... please, tell me what you meant when you said that apple tends to screw customers?
Oh, I'm so sorry. I forgot to address your question. I'm going to have dinner now. I'll post a reply as soon as I return.
