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<blockquote data-quote="kfander" data-source="post: 915336" data-attributes="member: 108491"><p>After nearly thirty years on a PC, I switched to a 13" silver MacBook several months ago.</p><p></p><p>I have become fairly well familiar with the Mac, I think, although I'm sure there are a lot of power uses that I remain unfamiliar with.</p><p></p><p>Overall, I like the Mac. Curiously enough, however, on the one thing that I most heard from Mac users who were urging me to switch to a Mac, my own experiences have been the opposite.</p><p></p><p>I had been led to believe that Macs don't crash, or that they don't crash nearly as often as PCs do, and that's not what I'm seeing.</p><p></p><p>I don't even demand a lot of it. Most of what I do is web-based so most of what I'm asking of my MacBook is to allow me to have a couple of browsers open at the same time, since I use an external monitor as well as the one on the MacBook.</p><p></p><p>That seems to be asking too much. Although I prefer the look and feel of Safari, I have all but quit using it because it crashes constantly, especially while trying to navigate from one page to another.</p><p></p><p>Rather than doing so, it too often gives me the whirligig as if moving from one web page to another is asking too much of the poor thing. Usually, it displays neither the page or a navigation error. I can navigate to the same page on my PC without trouble so it's not a network problem. In fact, I can often boot Opera or Camino up on the MacBook and it will navigate to the same page. At these times, Safari won't even let me navigate to another page instead, or even close the browser down, requiring that I force quit in order to get Safari to give it up.</p><p></p><p>Other times, often when there is no keyboard activity, Safari just quits, displaying the "Safari encountered a problem and had to close" error.</p><p></p><p>I am seeing problems more often with Safari than with other applications perhaps because more than 90% of what I do on the computer is web-based. But I have also had to force quit iPhoto and Mail several times, as well, and both have also closed out on their own with the "iPhoto encountered a problem and had to close". If I used other applications as much as I do a web brower, perhaps I would see as many problems with them as I do with Safari.</p><p></p><p>Perhaps six times, the entire computer locked up, forcing me to reboot it in order to regain control. In the years that I have used a PC, I have certainly had a lot of lockups but I think I've only had one PC that had these problems when it was as new as my MacBook is.</p><p></p><p>Curiously, the problems that I am having appear to be resigned to the applications that came with the MacBook, which is the opposite of what I might expect. I haven't seen it yet with Opera, Camino or Firefox; or with any of the other applications that I have installed.</p><p></p><p>So while I will still say that I like the Mac, I would never tell anyone what I was told repeatedly, before making the switch, that you won't have crashes with a Mac. If anything, my Mac crashes more often than most of the PCs that I have had over the years, more often even than the nine year-old PC that sits next to it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="kfander, post: 915336, member: 108491"] After nearly thirty years on a PC, I switched to a 13" silver MacBook several months ago. I have become fairly well familiar with the Mac, I think, although I'm sure there are a lot of power uses that I remain unfamiliar with. Overall, I like the Mac. Curiously enough, however, on the one thing that I most heard from Mac users who were urging me to switch to a Mac, my own experiences have been the opposite. I had been led to believe that Macs don't crash, or that they don't crash nearly as often as PCs do, and that's not what I'm seeing. I don't even demand a lot of it. Most of what I do is web-based so most of what I'm asking of my MacBook is to allow me to have a couple of browsers open at the same time, since I use an external monitor as well as the one on the MacBook. That seems to be asking too much. Although I prefer the look and feel of Safari, I have all but quit using it because it crashes constantly, especially while trying to navigate from one page to another. Rather than doing so, it too often gives me the whirligig as if moving from one web page to another is asking too much of the poor thing. Usually, it displays neither the page or a navigation error. I can navigate to the same page on my PC without trouble so it's not a network problem. In fact, I can often boot Opera or Camino up on the MacBook and it will navigate to the same page. At these times, Safari won't even let me navigate to another page instead, or even close the browser down, requiring that I force quit in order to get Safari to give it up. Other times, often when there is no keyboard activity, Safari just quits, displaying the "Safari encountered a problem and had to close" error. I am seeing problems more often with Safari than with other applications perhaps because more than 90% of what I do on the computer is web-based. But I have also had to force quit iPhoto and Mail several times, as well, and both have also closed out on their own with the "iPhoto encountered a problem and had to close". If I used other applications as much as I do a web brower, perhaps I would see as many problems with them as I do with Safari. Perhaps six times, the entire computer locked up, forcing me to reboot it in order to regain control. In the years that I have used a PC, I have certainly had a lot of lockups but I think I've only had one PC that had these problems when it was as new as my MacBook is. Curiously, the problems that I am having appear to be resigned to the applications that came with the MacBook, which is the opposite of what I might expect. I haven't seen it yet with Opera, Camino or Firefox; or with any of the other applications that I have installed. So while I will still say that I like the Mac, I would never tell anyone what I was told repeatedly, before making the switch, that you won't have crashes with a Mac. If anything, my Mac crashes more often than most of the PCs that I have had over the years, more often even than the nine year-old PC that sits next to it. [/QUOTE]
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