The old jokes are the best.

( laminasni doesn't actually take drugs., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 19:47, archived)

Don't u mean the untruest jokes
are the best.
Mac's don't get visrus, don't crash, don't quit underpressure. PC's do. 100% Fact.
( Kuroi Kyo Heroes of Liang Shan Po, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 19:52, archived)

They apparently
don't come with a spell checker either.
(Yarblesnake loves the rain in an antique beat style, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 19:55, archived)

Actually
The spell checker is integrated in the OS, but if you use FireFox this neat feature is not enabled.
[Only works for Safari]
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:05, archived)

Oh no. You NEVER have to turn off extensions and dump them
back in ONE BY ONE to get your Mac to boot up.
( fassit, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 19:55, archived)

Not if you know how to use them
What are u using OS8?????
( Kuroi Kyo Heroes of Liang Shan Po, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 19:57, archived)

Macs crash.
And often.

They are no more resilient to shit software than a PC is. Face it.
( fassit, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 19:59, archived)

300 days uptime says otherwise
compared to my record of 121 on a windows machine.
And the 300 day machine is still going strong
( techierob, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:10, archived)

How much software do you run on the mac?
and how much software do you run on the PC?
(and what OS on the PC?)
( laminasni doesn't actually take drugs., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:13, archived)

most of the PC's are running win2k server
the Mac is an X-serve running X 10.3 server addition, but I've got comparable uptimes out of my G3 iMac running 10.1 at home (would have been more if I hadn't shut down to install 10.3).

The most stable win2k configuration I've had was just running IIS and not much else. The MSSql machines average about 10 days between unrecoverable errors, and they're hit a lot less hard
( techierob, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:16, archived)

I have had a mac for only 18 months
and it has crashed twice.

In the last week alone my Win XP machine has crashed 3 times. [One time so fatal that I had to disconnect the power cord to do a hard re-boot]

I am not sure what version of Mac OS you have, and on which hardware?

I have had applications crash after an upgrade when an extension was no longer compatible, mail 2.0, but the OS so rarely crashes when an application has difficulty.

[My uptime is presently 35 days. The last time I patched the OS.]

The 100% fact is that Mac OS is way more stable than Win XP. [Although Win XP beats Win 98 hollow!]

I can't wait for Windows Vista because it is an obvious clone of all of the best features of Mac OS X.
[I hope it also has the same stability too! The I will be happy at work as well as at home!]
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:15, archived)

I find people who have problems with XP are usually pretty bad
at maintaining it. The main reason macs are seen as so much more stable is because they're idiot proofed.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:30, archived)

Interesting idea
Seeing as I have a J2EE app server running on my mac, and JBoss and two Tomcat servers, oh, and the whole of GNU utilites courtesy of fink, and I only use my win XP machine for bittorrent, file server, DivX watching and games, and I make sure that my windows machine is virus checked and spyware removed weekly, I would expect XP to be more stable.

The fatal crash in XP occurred starting up a bittorent client. It had never crashed before, and has not since. It took out the whole OS though. Something very rare on Mac OS X.

If you mean 'idiot proof' as in 'stable' then I would agree.
It takes a 'genuine' idiot to core dump a mac.
Any idiot can crash an XP machine.
( coder.keitaro I like pies!, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 21:00, archived)

Macs dont get visrus because
they're such a small target people realise it's fucking pointless making them for macs.
( StickFigureNinja is in a rather unbelievable mess, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 19:59, archived)

Don't quit under pressure?
You should see the macs I have to work with...

But fair enough. PCs do have a lot of problems too, although I think since XP hit crashes aren't nearly as common as they used to be.
( laminasni doesn't actually take drugs., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:00, archived)

XP is extremely stable for me

( StickFigureNinja is in a rather unbelievable mess, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:00, archived)

Ecksackerly!*
Yeah, I've had exactly three BSODs since I've had XP, which is a week or two after it was released.

*Acrington Stanley? 'Oo are they?
( laminasni doesn't actually take drugs., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:04, archived)

I've never had one BSOD with XP

( StickFigureNinja is in a rather unbelievable mess, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:05, archived)

Well I do sometimes bash the hardware a bit
and I think it's more the fault of aging hardware than software in this case. Still, may be buying a nice Alienware laptop later this week...

I like shiny new things
( laminasni doesn't actually take drugs., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:08, archived)

Same here. Totally smooth sailing from day one and limitless uptime
At least, as far as I've investigated in pointlessly leaving my system running.
(Guineapiggy Fuzzeh!, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:33, archived)

I think that was done
using the exact same words
(Onion Terror. smorg is bored, Mon 15 Aug 2005, 19:52, archived)

I'm not surprised
It's not like I made out it was original...
( laminasni doesn't actually take drugs., Mon 15 Aug 2005, 20:06, archived)