Over the years I've had few problems with the Mac OS (7.1 to
10.5.8). I wish I could say the same of Windows, any version other
than Vista or 7, which I have not used yet.
Worst problem seems to be minor file errors that cause boot failure.
followed by disk errosr that result in loss of format errors (this
later is really annoying). Power outages cause endless trouble with
Windows, I've never had a failure on the Mac OS I could trace to a
power outage.
I'm in the process of fixing a couple units at work with those
problems, sometimes Spinrite will save the day, but usually a damaged
file somewhere will hang up the boot and the only reliable course of
action is to REFORMAT THE DRIVE and do a fresh install. Repairing or
re-installing without a complete format won't work, I end up with and
endless reboot or the BSOD.
That should never be necessary, but I've had to do it any number of
times.
The file repair tools in Windows are pretty much useless. Mac tools
are better, and things like Disk Warrior have raised more than one
Mac from the dead for me long enough to copy off files and so forth.
Permissions repair would probably fix most of the boot failure
problems, but it's not available anywhere that I can find for Windows.
Worst Mac issue I've had in years, in fact, was some memory that
caused OS installation crashes, why I don't know, but it did. Seemed
to work fine on installed software, but I needed to fire up OS 9 for
some reason, and the installation crashed repeatedly until I swapped
out some memory.
It's very frustrating to be able to read a disk perfectly with Linux
while windows will not recognize the installation or that there is a
formated disk available, let alone copy data, etc.
Peter
On Feb 1, 2012, at 5:48 PM, Brian Toscano wrote:
I'm sure those working in Windows support advise users to re-
install their
OS every day too. Generally people calling support are not calling
to tell
you their system works great and they never have any problems.
I also wonder how many people advise re-installing the OS because its
faster than trying to figure out what's really wrong.
I don't think anyone actually think Mac's are perfect systems that
never
fail. That would be unreasonable. I do think that many people
have had
extremely good luck with their Mac systems when compared to their
Windows
systems of a similar era, particularly during Windows early years.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Brian Toscano
<brian.tosc...@gmail.com>wrote:
I never suggested that I am (or should be) representative of Apple's
entire user base.
All I'm saying is that for many people, Mac's are generally
trouble free.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Curt Raymond
<curtlud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Ohhhh I get it, you misunderstand. I mean SOMEBODY is
reinstalling their
OS every day. Any OS, doesn't matter which.
The argument that "Macs don't crash" somehow seems to dodge the
fact that
they do. Just because YOU don't have a problem with YOUR Mac is
just like
saying Mercedes never break down...
-Curt
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 13:58:34 -0700
From: Brian Toscano <brian.tosc...@gmail.com>
To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
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But its not bold to say that people have to reinstall their OS
every day?
Even in your own example you state 2 years, not every day.
I've never had any major Firewire issues on any of the Mac's I've
used
since my G3 in 2000.
It sounds more like you just don't like Apple and will come up with
technical, social, and political reasons to substantiate your
arguments,
no
matter how weak or disconnected they are from the majority of
users who
are
perfectly happy with Apple products.
I do have occasional issues Finder & external hard drives, but
they are
far
more tolerable than using Windows.
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