shaun89 said:
Atleast once a day now i get applications that unexpectedly quit. For example, just 5 minutes ago safari unexpectedly quit. I had 2 safari windows open and it just closed. I also get this with mozzila, photoshop, and limewire. So why do things just all of a sudden close. ??? And a few days ago i got a kernal panic! I am finding that os x is actually more unstable than windows and to be honest, dont see how it's so much better after using ti for a while. Whats up with the unexpectedly quitting thing? Can i prevent it?
The first thing you need to realize is that applications unexpectedly quitting are just that APPLICATIONS, not OS X. You should notice that when these apps quit you do not need to reboot your Mac, unlike any PC I've ever used. In fact the only time I ever reboot my Macs including my laptop is for system updates.
Second, kernel panics do happen from time to time but they are pretty uncommon. In the 2 years I have had my dual G4 1.25 I have had 1 kernel panic and that was due to bad RAM. My Powerbook has never kernel paniced in the year I've had it. Kernel panics are usually an indicator of some hardware problem, be it a device conflict (USB, firewire, PCI, etc), bad RAM or faulty logic board. Did I mention I used to be a Mac Genius and did nothing but troubleshoot Macs all day?
Your anecdotal "evidence" that windows is more stable than Mac OS is little more than that. I use PCs everyday at my current job and have been using Macs for about 14 years. I have a serious sampling of time on both types of systems and many different versions of OSes. Windows has never been as stable as it is now, and yet if I don't reboot XP at work once a day it gets flakey. Win2k was worse. Previous to installing Tiger, my Powerbook hadn't been rebooted since 10.3.8 came out. You just can't do that with a PC.