[P1] Mac OS X not so stable...

[Wiebe Wilbers]

On 30/9/03 11:00 PM, "Kirk McElhearn" <kirklists at wanadoo.fr> wrote:

> On 9/30/03 14:51, "Gorjan Todorovski" <gorjant at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> I was showing off to my girlfriend with my Mac, saying how OS X is better
>> than
>> Windows (more stable) and trying to make her switch to a Mac from a noname
>> biege dull PC. Everything was going ok until one day I tried to unlock my
>> screen (after a wake up) but everything was freezed, I tried many things but
>> nothing happened and I needed to restart the Mac. Yhis has happened few times
>> since I have my iBook (about 1 year). Maybe this is not much times the OS X
>> has hanged, but my girlsfriend nonamed biege boring PC with the Win 2K
>> professional OS has never crashed in the same time period. So....what should
>> I
>> tell her now...? Why is my Mac better than her PC (except it looks better)?!?
> 
> That's a known bug - one of Apple's security updates fixes that (assuming
> you mean waking it from a screen saver...).
> 
> You'll get the occasional freeze with OS X, but your girlfriend is lucky
> that she never has crashes - this said, Win 2000 is pretty stable, compared
> to other Windows flavors.

If it is any consolation, my iBook has never crashed at home, with just me
using it. The moment I take it and show it off, it crashes, or just sits
with the beach ball for ages. if I'm using it away from home, but NOT
showing it off, all is good.

It'll drive you mad.

Wiebe