A Mac addict is born.
I don't spend much time proselytizing the Macintosh these days, because unlike back in the nineties, Apple doesn't need help, they are doing better than ever, and on three platforms too (iPod, iPhone, and Mac). But anyway, here's a cute little story of a... what do they call them? Shifters? Changers?
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Switchers.
Macs are fun toys but too crash prone for real work.
There is now a huge opportunity for someone to enter the market with an object oriented operating system. I am surprised no one has managed to do that yet. The market and hardware have been ready for this for years.
"Macs are fun toys but too crash prone for real work."
That hasn't been my experience at all. Since I got Mac OS X 10.1 in late September or early October of 2001, I've probably had a total of three or four Mac system crashes, on systems that are running 24 hours a day. It's not a perfect record, but it's not bad.
"what do they call them? Shifters? Changers?"
Traitors!!
Clients!!
Welcome, welcome to the family!
Michael Burton said: "That hasn't been my experience at all. Since I got Mac OS X 10.1 in late September or early October of 2001, I've probably had a total of three or four Mac system crashes, ..."
Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2 were more stable. The pre 10.0 versions from Next, Inc. were even more solid. Since then the OS seems to have gradually become more crash prone.
Of course, the very requirement that you have to upgrade it in order to run a later version of an application makes OS X a complete joke to begin with. It used to be that we poked fun at Microsoft when they resorted to these tactics. Now we find that Apple is worse than Microsoft, in both OS stability and downward compatibility.
All I'm trying to use my Mac for is as an expensive terminal -- to connect to my real computers. And to browse the web. But it doesn't even work for that! Safari crashes daily. And Terminal.app hangs up (and starts consuming 100% CPU) when I try to view a man page over an SSH connection. I was able to do both of these tasks on a 386 PC ten years ago.
And before someone suggests iTerm as a replacement for Terminal.app, yes, I've tried it. It does not have that bug Terminal.app has, but it crashes all the time and is therefore unusable.
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