>> I almost never get a system crash/panic in OS X. In fact, I haven't >> had one on either one of my main machines since about two weeks after >> OS X >> 10.0 was released. > > Only two kernel panics ever, here. Frequent software crashes though - > aren't > they the ones that matter? I don't get much actual work done in the OS > itself. Hence my rant about X "crashing" as often as 9 does... The > consequences are the same. I'll shut up now. :-) Not really. In OS 9 the crashed application would bring the whole OS down, or at least make it so unstable that you had to restart anyway. When app crashes in OS X it is the problem of the app itself. Send a bug report or use the competition product to get the work done :)