Microsoft does it AGAIN! another stupid mistake...

[alternatefutures]

Oh, and El Bannana, it has been documented that I can crash a room full of Macs simply by crossing the threshold. Some of them still don't work right to this day.

[KungPaoChicken]

WRONG.

Hackers, like most programmers, are just too lazy to write cross platform viruses, and seeing how there are more Windows OSs running around, then naturally there are more viruses for Windows, which would = the unstableness of the OS.

Also that the Mac OS is more stable.

[El Banana]

Curiously enough, there was only one mac in the room. I'd love to see the effects of my presence in a roomful of macs.

[Mr Pilkington]

This is more like every mac owner I know (self inclusive):




This is a knownothing mac hater with no better reason than one bad experince on a A2e they used at thier grade/high school:

I see.

Then it's confirmed.
I've touched three macs in my life, and crashed two of them. I did not run more than a single program at a time on each case.


I possess the mutant power to make any mac I get my hands on crash.

I've crashed a few macs in my heyday. Its not all that difficult, especally if you dont know anything about them.

Yes i have heard this argument too. but all those are under 7.0 or less, and something shitty like a first gen Imac or A2e. I will concur the shittyness of said older machines, thus the common fear.
But Try crashing something worthwhile like a (current, not 4 year old technology) powermac with OS X+. If you do it's either hardware issues due to aftermarket FUBARs on the owns end, or you were out just to fuck something up and that, I'm sorry to say, will crash anything.

[KungPaoChicken]

Like Special > Shutdown

OMG.

[Hoeya]

Try are not!
Would have also accepted: Must be living in a dream world!

What makes a Mac more stable on average than a PC is that there is but one company making Macs, while everyone and their brother makes a PC. Stability, however, is no more inherent in the design of a Mac than in a PC. Dell and Apple are at parity with the reliability of their machines. You have some PC manufactures such as Boxx that actually surpasses both, and I know a couple system builders that consistantly build some of the most stable systems I've ever used.

If you buy from a good OEM or if you really do your homework on parts and know what you're doing you will get a stable system. Apple is but one of the good OEMs, not the be-all-end-all.

Sure, but you sacrifice some things for that stability. One is price. Macs, on average cost more money in repairs and upgrades than any PC would cost, not to mention you pay more on average for a mac than you do for a PC with similiar specs. PCs have more or less taken over the computing market because they simply cost less and are easier to maintain, not to mention that they have a much broader selection to choose from than just one company.

Besides, you seem to think that Windows is the only choice for PC. There is a much broader range of OS's that can be installed on PCs than Macs, which, to my knowledge is limited to the OS it came with. Also, most of Windows vaunted instability is because it was designed to be an unstabe system, so that customers would have to keep upgrading in order to get rid of pesky bugs that speak the name of Microsoft as clearly as the Blue Screen of Death.

[dokidoki]

The problem? MICROSOFT not including Build 3718 in the allowed builds list.

Maybe if you used released versions, instead of release candidate software, they'd support it. :P

[Mr Pilkington]

Also, most of Windows vaunted instability is because it was designed to be an unstabe system, so that customers would have to keep upgrading in order to get rid of pesky bugs that speak the name of Microsoft as clearly as the Blue Screen of Death.

Wow! Ignorant, wrong AND down right stupid. Your a triple threat. Windows isn't deliberately buggy, you are even more idiotic than I first suspected if you actually believe that load of crap you just spewed. If windows were deliberately buggy, then why did Billy boy put the halt on Longhorn? Your are and obvious 9X only user. *tsk tsk tsk*

But more importantly, yes Windows isn't the only OS PC side. But have you actually used any of the others. Solaris is wicked awesome if you’re running a server. But otherwise totally useless. Linux/unix is ok, but nothing is made for them. And the Windows emulators are as bad if not worse than ME. 5 seconds into quake your PC is totally fucked. DOS is dead and the rest not even worth mentioning.

[El Banana]

Yes i have heard this argument too. but all those are under 7.0 or less, and something shitty like a first gen Imac or A2e. I will concur the shittyness of said older machines, thus the common fear.
But Try crashing something worthwhile like a (current, not 4 year old technology) powermac with OS X+. If you do it's either hardware issues due to aftermarket FUBARs on the owns end, or you were out just to fuck something up and that, I'm sorry to say, will crash anything.

I believe both macs were G4's, Both with that Mac OSX, or whatever it's called....

But I do not know anything about macs so....

[Mr Pilkington]

But I do not know anything about macs so....

you wouldn't know an apple machine from a Powermac Dual G5.

Somehow i doubt that. But if they were g4's w/ OSx, then you sir are either god or a liar