Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 31st Oct 2003 17:21 UTC
Some time ago we featured an interview with an... official Mac OS X switcher. A year later, we found another Apple switcher, James Dorn ("noviteo" for his friends) and we ask him a few details upon the switch. Especially with the recent price cuts on Apple hardware and the Mac OS X Panther release last week, being a switcher becomes "cool" all over again.
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Yes, I was particularly annoyed at the implication that OSX and OSX software doesn't crash.
OS X DOES crash and so do the apps.
I'm a victim of the mysterious "It's only YOU, Jace" problem of Safari freezing on forums and other active content sites (come over and I'll show you, it happens every time).
Then there are the times when I close an app and OS X tells me that it "unexpectedly quit." No, you twit, I quit it myself.
Then there's that floppy problem with FAT volumes that will bring the whole OS to a standstill.
My favorite crash is the one that happens for no apparent reason (and with a lack of technical feedback, ALL failures are for no "apparent" reason), when the computer was sitting idle, doing nothing, running nothing other than OS X and IE. My girl was browsing the net. She got up and walked away when she was done. I walked by the computer about 20 minutes later and there was a "You need to restart your computer" message in six languages transparently covering a static screen with a big "power button symbol" in the background. I asked her if this was why she left it and she said no, she was just done. It apparently did this on its own. For no reason that mere mortals can see (and Apple doesn't like to give useful and meaningful information... try copying a file with more than 31 characters in the name to a volume that is HFS standard). If that's not the Apple equivalent to BSOD, nothing is.
And here I am typing this in Safari on Mac OS X on our Mac G4... I'm not an anti-Apple zealot. I just don't like BS and hype.