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

[Gloria Vogel]

Are you saying we should, or should not, turn off our Macs in between 
uses?  What's the general feeling about this?  I have an ongoing 
disagreement with my husband about this.  I tend to leave my desktop G4 
on and sleep my iBook, and he always turns off his desktop G4 even if 
only for ten minutes' absence from it.  Crashes on all three are 
extremely infrequent in this household, thank goodness, I don't think 
any one crashes any more than any other.

On Tuesday, September 30, 2003, at 12:04 PM, David Binnion wrote:

> 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
>
>
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