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

[David Binnion]

On 9/30/03 8:51 AM, "Gorjan Todorovski" <gorjant at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi, 
> 
> 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)?!?
> 
In over a year, I can count the number of times my Mac desktop has crashed
with one hand and my WinXP desktop has crashed about the same number of
times. Then again, my Mac is on 24/7 and I use it every day. My XP
hibernates between uses and gets used a few times a week. It is a very
different story at work. My iBook crashed twice in 19 months of ownership
but my Dell Uninspiron crashes almost weekly. So from my perspective your
girlfriend has been very lucky.

Note-comparing desktops to notebooks isn't entirely fair. We notebook users
tend to sleep our machines while desktop users tend to turn them off more
often. That alone has a huge impact on day to day stability.

Cheers
david