PLEASE NOTE:-
THIS WHOLE PROBLEM TURNED OUT TO BE A FAULTY STICK OF RAM I HAD INSTALLED TO TAKE THIS INTO ACCOUNT WHEN READING THIS THREAD.
IM AM QUITE SHOCKED BY HOW MUCH PANDEMONIUM CAN BE CAUSED BY ONE BAD RAM STICK ON A MAC EVEN THOUGH ONE STICK WAS FINE.
HOWEVER IT SEEMS THE OS IS VERY STABLE IF THERE ARE NO HARDWARE ISSUES WHICH IS IN CONTERYTO MY INITIAL POST BELOW.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Very poor day today re Mac - Starting to wish I hadn’t switched. The main reason I switched was the ‘alleged’ Macs stability.
It all started when I turned on my mac today after everything was working fine last night. For some unbeknown reason the Macintosh HD had become corrupt. How exactly?? It was asleep all night with me??
After farting around for a few hours scouring the net for fixes and trial and error I admitted defeat I decided to phone Apple Care who went through fixing the error by using the Leopard disk that came with the computer. Another two hour episode I really could have done without less than a week of owning a mac. This was four hours out of my working day keeping in mind all I done last night was turn off my perfectly working Mac and then turn it on today. Doesn't inspirer confidence at all.
Ok, so maybes I could find it in my heart to forgive the above episode and a days loss of earnings as it has to go wrong sometime right? Maybes mine is just going wrong now to get it out of the way. Ok, positively I puff out my chest and look to trouble free computing. Tomorrow Ill catch up no probs.
Then tonight happened. Programs start shutting off for no reason. It started with MS Word Mac. I had typed an 8 paragraph letter and it just shut in an instant. You can imagine my annoyance!!!
On top of this Firefox now does the same and snaps shut without warning whenever it likes which is superb to say the least for a web designer all ready a day behind due to the applecare saga mentioned above.
Add to this twice tonight I have received a message telling me to press and hold the power button on my mac to restart as Mac OS x needs to be restarted. I other-words its crashed.
All in all I'm very unhappy. XP was more stable than this. This is a fact certainly in my case. I have been grinning from ear to ear since I got my mac and now a week in I totally regret it!
Signed:-
A thoroughly disappointed customer who is trying very hard to switch to Apple mac so much so spending a grand only a week ago.
THIS WHOLE PROBLEM TURNED OUT TO BE A FAULTY STICK OF RAM I HAD INSTALLED TO TAKE THIS INTO ACCOUNT WHEN READING THIS THREAD.
IM AM QUITE SHOCKED BY HOW MUCH PANDEMONIUM CAN BE CAUSED BY ONE BAD RAM STICK ON A MAC EVEN THOUGH ONE STICK WAS FINE.
HOWEVER IT SEEMS THE OS IS VERY STABLE IF THERE ARE NO HARDWARE ISSUES WHICH IS IN CONTERYTO MY INITIAL POST BELOW.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Very poor day today re Mac - Starting to wish I hadn’t switched. The main reason I switched was the ‘alleged’ Macs stability.
It all started when I turned on my mac today after everything was working fine last night. For some unbeknown reason the Macintosh HD had become corrupt. How exactly?? It was asleep all night with me??
After farting around for a few hours scouring the net for fixes and trial and error I admitted defeat I decided to phone Apple Care who went through fixing the error by using the Leopard disk that came with the computer. Another two hour episode I really could have done without less than a week of owning a mac. This was four hours out of my working day keeping in mind all I done last night was turn off my perfectly working Mac and then turn it on today. Doesn't inspirer confidence at all.
Ok, so maybes I could find it in my heart to forgive the above episode and a days loss of earnings as it has to go wrong sometime right? Maybes mine is just going wrong now to get it out of the way. Ok, positively I puff out my chest and look to trouble free computing. Tomorrow Ill catch up no probs.
Then tonight happened. Programs start shutting off for no reason. It started with MS Word Mac. I had typed an 8 paragraph letter and it just shut in an instant. You can imagine my annoyance!!!
On top of this Firefox now does the same and snaps shut without warning whenever it likes which is superb to say the least for a web designer all ready a day behind due to the applecare saga mentioned above.
Add to this twice tonight I have received a message telling me to press and hold the power button on my mac to restart as Mac OS x needs to be restarted. I other-words its crashed.
All in all I'm very unhappy. XP was more stable than this. This is a fact certainly in my case. I have been grinning from ear to ear since I got my mac and now a week in I totally regret it!
Signed:-
A thoroughly disappointed customer who is trying very hard to switch to Apple mac so much so spending a grand only a week ago.