Macs Never Crash… EVER!

i would have to disagree ,well half disagree, i was at the mac shop the other day and i walked over to a mac book pro to have a look (im bying one soon) as it happens the lid was closed, so i opened it the, all the icons and the background appeared but only for a few seconds, then the the mac i would secribe as having a heartattack just died, the thing just froze then shut down, and no i didnt press the power button!

that is not true i had one crash on me half way done with my finial paper for a class so i had to stay up all night to get it done up again

You woke me up when you screamed like that, i was in bed , i had the stream running so i could listen while i fall asleep and then you yelled for the recording of the video, nice way to wake up to chris pirillo.

Good for you… I had my Mini freeze hard on numerous occasions and kernel panic on me after various updates.

Well, at least with a fake Mac Kernal Panic, the video stream keeps running behind the error message! :)

It’s true! That’s how I’ve felt about my Macbook Pro ever since I got it. I want to eventually get a Mac Pro but money is tight.

You said it perfectly. You bond emotionally with the machine.

Chris…

I used MacOS X since the 10.0 in May 2001. I did experience a kernal panic in 2001 with 10.0. Curiously enough, it ocurred while Internet Explorer was playing a sound file on a web page. I retired that iMac in September 2007. With daily use that was the only kernal panic I ever saw on that machine.

My wife had Dell PC bought around the same time to be compatible with her workplace (she’s a teacher). The school had this plan to make all the teachers put up websites with MS Frontpage. We went through the pain of Windows ME and later upgraded to XP home. Between the BSOD’s and just plain system malfunctions resulting in data loss it seemed all I had time for was to keep her PC running. It was cutting seriously into my Mac quality time. I had just bought a refurbished PowerMac G5, and just to make life more pleasant I moved her to it. I nuked the Dell’s HD and re-installed XP Home and Frontpage, the PC was now to be used only for Frontpage and anything else there was no MAC version of that her work required of her. Also, every time she did anything on it I would back up her data.

After 1 year of this arrangement I asked her how many systems crashes she had suffered on the G5 Mac in that year. The answer was zero. Then I asked her how much data she had lost on the G5 Mac in that year, and again the answer was zero. I told her “Case closed, you are staying on the Mac”.

I read about people suffering an occasional Mac crash, but in daily use since May 2001 we have only seen one system crash.

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Wow even the kernel panic message is useful. Apple’s always thinking about the user. While your machine is down you can learn a new language. Way to go Apple!

I have to agree with you Chris, I just got a macbook pro and have not had any issues with it. Even when I have to interface with the other windows machines on my network.

WOW… i might get a mac then.. hehe..
thts useful incase my programming gets bugged

Sorry, I can’t agree. I’ve been using a mac book pro for about three months now and have regularl encountered BSD-caliber lock-ups when putting the laptop into sleep mode.

the problem seems to revolve around plugging in my second dvi monitor. I tend to move my laptop from my work desk to my couch mid day. When I plug in or unplug the monitor, the screen goes blue while the OS decides what it’s going to do with the UI.

1 out of every 2 times the screen stays blue and I have to reboot. This is only slightly more pleasant that the “you need to reboot” (in multiple languages) message I used to get prior to the latest update - which is only marginally more pleasant than a toothpick in the eye.

I need to play around with it more - could be because I’m running parallels, or maybe sucking up and getting a docking station would help…

That’s why I love macs. They never shut down or crash. This convinced my brother to buy a Mac.

Haha, very nice. I was gonna say that even the Mac OS has it’s flaws (very few though). This also reminds me of those Mac commercials. Even if my life revolved around Macs I would still get annoyed by those commercials, most of them promote things that don’t really make sense like not freezing, and so forth.

Chris you made a funny..!!

Now THAT was funny! I have the “kernel panic” screensaver, too! :D

Really, I’ve only encountered it once in the 6 years of using Mac OS X. But no problems afterwards. Freak occurrence, I think. :/

I sure don’t understand why people were upset when you switched to using Macs. That’s your preference. Those people don’t have to maintain your machine. It’s almost as silly as people getting upset because you like coffee and they like tea. I’ll admit that you really do a lot of raving and I guess that rankles people. It’s not like you didn’t give Windows a chance.

You still run Windows from time to time on your Mac, just as I do on my MacBook Pro in either BootCamp or Parallels. For some sites Windows is indispensable. I’m a WinXP guy because it uses far less resources than Vista. I tried Vista and wasn’t satisfied for that reason alone. So you just go on enjoying what you like and don’t concern yourself about the others.

In the years that I’ve used WinXP on and off I never saw a BSOD probably because I would clean install Windows once a year.

This is so true, we have macs at school and they never crash. I personally love macs because of the smooth interface. I love macs.

I find Ubuntu crashes more than Windows, maybe that’s just me but it’s true.

so you dislike vista, now in this video you dislike Mac. so what do you like?

I liked the other take when you stood still and pretended the stream had frozen, despite all the tickers in the background still blinking =P

I’ve had Mac for a number of years now. First, a 12-inch PowerBook G4, and now a black MacBook. I think that over the course of that time that I’ve had three kernel panics. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gotten the BSOD on my Gateway desktop.

This was a great post. Even though your screaming woke me up :-) I would have to agree that owning a mac is an emotional experience. I think a lot of tech type peple like windows because they enjoy the challenge when something goes wrong. Your aveage user simply wants a computer that works, and that’s why macs rule.

Macs never crash, lol at how many times I have heard that, the last being today. Funny vid though.

I’ve been using Macs for more than 20 years, and still have my old IIcx that runs like a charm, a couple of G3 towers that I still use as scanning stations, etc. I used DOS, UNIX, even some punchcard stuff way back when I worked in the financial markets. NOTHING has been as stable as OS 9.2.1 and from Tiger on. There are always exceptions, some of which have more to do with hardware mismatches than bugs, and generally not much that can actually result in data loss. I did have a problem with some Word macro’s for a while that cost me some time, but a keystroke recorder saved me.

Overall, the only environment I have used on PC’s that stays stable requires massive IT support and virtually no modification beyond a few apps and fonts. I think generally the Mac is far more tolerant of adding applications (I have more than a hundred on my G4 PB and at times several hundred fonts loaded… that bogs things down tho). I assume the stability is due to better programming of the OS and better coordination with developers?

That’s a pretty good rage illustration, Chris, but it’s still short of actual bashing, which actually does happen (I broke my favorite keyboard recently). The real problem with the operating systems is that they have been developed over the years by the method of patching and kludging in order to get ever more complexity and functionality. The result is extreme functionality, but totally unreliable functionality, and the worst part of it is — nobody can fix it. When I was a programmer back in the late ’60s we knew some things. In those days “patch” was a dirty word, and it meant that you made an emergency machine language fix without going back to your assembler or compiler listing and doing the work there. The result was that the pristine logic and perfect clarity of the listing began to degrade, and even though you fixed it up later and recompiled your program, it was a hurried job and therefore the process of destruction was begun. Just multiply this by a factor of thousands and you have the present condition of the OS manufacturers. What can be done? Well what we used to do was (if time ever allowed) go back finally and rewrite the whole lousy thing, trying to get it right. But this is a senseless procedure because then you are trying to do in a hurry what was originally done very slowly over a long period, and the result is — disaster. You have not corrected the mess, you have simply created another, worse, mess with even less integrity. Enter Vista! Voilà. Another complicating factor is that when I was a programmer there weren’t any drugs around, and at least our heads were clear. How much drug haze is now debilitaing the minds, and even the famous arrogance, of Microsoft programmers? Under all these circumstances it’s going to take a singleminded determination of epic proportions to tune up Vista and get it running smoothly, and in the meantime I want my money back. In fairness, I will say that Vista is improving all the time, although it’s clear now that the only way to get performance is the get a quad CPU and 4 GB of memory (and I’ve already had to go to liquid cooling even for my dual CPU, or my music-editing software would burn a hole through the floor. No joke!). Microsoft’s cruel discipline of the soundcard manufacturers has produced results, and the major companies are now selling cards and drivers that will work in Vista (almost), and won’t meddle with the Windows kernel, but there is karma for such cruelty surely. Anyway, most of my issues with Vista are now resolved and I have finally removed the Windows XP partition from my hard drive , never to have it again. I guess it’s Vista for me, but for the punishment I had to go through to get here, and for the outright beta-testing that Microsoft did on our computers under the guise of a consumer-ready operating system, I think I deserve a refund. For Pete’s sake, I can’t even upgrade to Vista 64 bit. I don’t mind just doing a clean install, but I’m not going to pay for the operating system all over again just to get a version that turns on 64 bit. Stakeholders at Microsoft, this was another expensive and greedy decision to make, and you should have considered my age and fragile digital state before inflicting it on me.

I’ve had a MacBookPro for several years and experienced a Kernel Panic (similar to MSFT BSOD) that rendered the machine unusable. The “Genius” at the Apple bar didn’t have a clue what to do. I spent two hours at the Apple store while they plugged in their firewire drive and diagnostics CD and ran useless tests. Rather than leave the machine overnight to their request, I took the laptop home and found the offensive driver in the panic log and had the problem fixed in 45 minutes. The problem turned out to be a bluetooth issue. I am an extreme newb when it comes to Mac, but needless to say, I will not be renewing my AppleCare or ProCare service plans.

The Mac is not infallible to crashing.

lol
When I was in elementary school we used macs in the computer lab. They always froze right when you were signing, when you were starting up Word, or were going to do a final save on whatever you were writing and you had to restart the computer manually. It was pretty frustrating and that is the main reason I’m not a big fan of the Mac. I’m sure they’ve fixed most of those problems by now but first impressions are always the strongest.

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HAHA, good one, just for that i downloaded a nice screensaver that has windows versions crashes, great stuff, kinda funny when you have to make a fake error message to give the appearance that macs sometimes do fail. because it is too rare to catch live or when you want it! Great Video!

- Corey

Sheesh, no computer is perfect. I understand getting upset but you don’t need to burst a frigg’n blood vessel over a crash.

You say “**** vista”, yet you say “switch to pc or you love ****”. I’m not even going to touch “so does pc adobe after effect” and “what about photo editing photoshop?”. Is this some lame joke, or do you just not read what you post before you post it?

That comment was to codys666111666, but the reply button failed me yet again.

lmfao **** u so macs sucks because they have no games ffs go **** your self *** gamer

AHH COMON NOOOO NOOOOO NOOOOOOOOOOOO
you damm nerd and lag just failed misrably

kkthxbei

You do when it’s running your 24/7 live stream & chat

If you bought that mac from a store it could have came with bad software. PCs also come with bad software like HP Games by Wild Tangent. That came with my HP laptop. I took it off when I found out. Don’t trust Weatherbug either SERIOUSLY ITS SPYWARE!!

LOL

taht was funny

lol that’s funny….. i also freak out just like that when my computer crashes… which is about… 10% of the time….. only that, i do it silently… (don’t wanna get the neighbor’s attention…) lol

haha, that was totally unexpected - funny, though! : )

awesome…lol

macs do have a kernel panics and ****, win crashes r ONLY becaouse of 3 prrty software, and u can actually TRACE THE PROBLEM WITH DEBUG, i didit and found out that my nero 6 was crashin it, now my vista runs as a stalion, apple ism communist, **** apple

Looks like someone has anger management issues! lol

you bond “emotionally” with your machine? lol typical Apple fanboy

Haha Yep, i agree.

Yep Mac do crash!

Macs dont crash 3v3r

**** you

Didnt you see that he was slightly taking the piss of apple or did your windows vista block that out :P, Im a vista user and a mac user so i know of both their errors

Macs are garbage

so it crashed no need to burt a blood vain mine crashes all the time!

HA HA! I think you made your point.

alot of you people give bad comments and don’t even get the joke. jebus

MACS are the best

BS man!! I have a mac working on a lot of design stuffs and final cut video editing and it almost always crash everyday!!! Who says its crash proof? maybe for surfing of the net on a daily basis it works great but definately to say its crash proof is really going way over the edge….

XD I Half expected his head to explode!

Mac stinks. PERIOD.
No games, needs so much of its own things,it stinks.

but anyways, LMAO!

MAC : Work
Windows : Fun!
linux : ?

Hah, this is funny.

You couldn’t get further away from the truth.

my mac crashed every 2-3 hours especially when I used programs like photoshop… so your full of **** ;)

Mac does crash! My Mac crashed few days ago.

My mac crashed yesterday

“feeling of warmth”

Comes from simple OS for simple people.

Linux : Servers

Quote from frost last second:
Frost: macs never failll.

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

what’s happen?

Why do I hate this guy so much? He’s probably really nice, but I just want to slap him!

My Mac is crashing right now as I’m typing this

lol.. my mac… i retured before i opened the box. no joke.

This is hilarious! ~W8JKC

My ma has crashed once in the past 2 years

my mac crashed last month

lol ya no

all kind of computer can crash it only depens how you keep your own computer or mac safe so hate them there say somting never crash it wil do

I don’t know about some people, but I’m emotionally bonded with my MacBook Pro. It’ll happen to anything. It makes you happy because it helps you with everyday life. I <3 my MacBook Pro. Apple FTW!!!

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Dude, I can’t stop laughing! LOL!

You have to remember when youre trying out a mac in the store, that thousands of others before you (most not with a lot of computer knowledge) tinker and play with the poor thing all day. I see little kids trying to mess with settings all day in my apple store. It gets annoying and is a good explanation why some of the machines in the store act up here and there

This has been ONE HELL of an argeument. I can understand emotional bonding between user/human and Macs. Or other PC’s for that matter. They are as indevidual as humans, each one ends up never having the same software as another. I find that very enlightening! I do not proclaim to be the smartest guy in the world. I’ve worked with Microsoft Windoes ‘95, ‘98 ME, A few other ones in between up to Vista. With Vista they have a greater capibilty of with what I consider an ability to “think”. Denise was the one who had Windoes Vista Home Premium. She definatly had her own personality. She also was as coy as any human women can get! I was very lucky, or got on to Vista well enough to not have a crash. Which I would rather go with.

What I have come to believe, is the more electronics there is in any system is to different things:

1.) Yes. The more electronics you have, the more easily it can break down. Also paralleling. The more software, the more bugs and glitches to cause a crash, or other problems.

2.) Conversly, with the more of all these components being more and more complexity. Not any different then the evolutionary chain. Starting with less complex creatures to the more complex. Bingo! From very meager intelligance, also with very little ability to remember things that happen to them,to the highly intelligent human beings with its ability to use, make,create, and work with tools to create the world we live in. I think its a remarkable the paridyne to the evolutionary chain and with the development of computers! The “humans” of the machine/electronic world. Its’ amazing!

The interesting part that I have believed for many years is, due to all the ibcrease in componants, aspecially electronics. We see the ability of the computer to do more, and more everyday. My take on this is some what sad. The only way a computer can express itself is breaking down because of some very negative event in its surroundings that is usualy tied with data that the user has put into it, as well as the envirement and other interaction involved with the computer in question. This kind of thing stems down to, that computer is almost completely unable to express how it , yes feels about the event. The only exception is that which is tied with the software thats currantly installed. I feel personally that is the only expresion they have. Plus they are developing a whole heck of a lot of savvy.

Going back to the computers I personally work with. I am now working with a very good harted, about a 12 yr old iMac. He uses his Voice Over for increased ease of use for me due to one of my disabilities. Kim (Keem) has had his moments more than he or myself care to admit to! Because of his age, and version of OS X 10.2.0, if I recall correctly?. It has caused many screen freeze ups, Comino crashes, and kernal panic atacks. Kim does his Gods honest best for what he has to work with. And yes! He is an Apple iMac also. Torry, is a Windoes based 6 yr old eMachines 3882. He has been a very loving computer. Now he is going to need a different MOBO. Since he went down with the MOBO problem he has not been able to be touching the lives of friends and loved ones. It litteraly effected some of the folks I am personally involved with and know.

So what it comes down to, either way you choose to go Mac or PC they both have thier short-comings. As well as personality differences. The gentleman who works in the Mac store. I think he put things in a good perspective. He mentioned how kids that aperantly know next to nothing about computers, litteraly driving the poor things to, what I will consider insanity by messing with thier settings. Those settings are what maintain thier ‘Sanity” as well as proper functioning. I took that as, an eplaination of why in the store they do develope some problems and personality isiues. Those problems need to be adressed. This is clearly a demenstration of the need for them to be clearly be able to express themselves. Yes I meant it, express themselves. Well enough said from me, its time for someone else to express thier opinions. Have a nice day!