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Thank you for exemplifying the typical offensive and slanderous response to my valid and honest description of real technical problems with Apple products.

If you had paid attention to what I said before getting into your "arrogant response" position so quickly, you'd know that it is NOT a beige G3.

Thank you for also including the typical redirecting response of "get a new machine" as though ours is somehow inferior because it didn't roll out of manufacturing two weeks ago.

" problems do not just happen in OS X, there is some reason for them."

Are you implying that problems DO just happen on Windows and that Mac OS X is somehow immune to this annoyance?

Of course there are causes. There are not always solutions. At least, not solutions within the grasp of mere mortals like myself. Or at least, not within the grasp of people who want to just use the computer as a tool to get stuff done instead of constantly trying to find out why it doesn't do what it's supposed to do. Maybe someone like you would have it fixed faster than I can say "Yeah right" but I've got a job and other priorities in life that come before troubleshooting products that are supposed to just work.

I suspect that the cause of the problems may be along the lines of ... well let's see... bad OS X code. Such as lack of testing of OS X on the G4 system type I have here (it was superceded by a few other machines before OS X shipped). Bad code in the FAT filesystem handler, as explained by a poster on another Apple article feedback forum here at OSNews (he had equally harsh criticism of OS X). Lack of stress testing in general.

I don't want to help myself, you say... EXCUSE ME. I help myself constantly. More than should be necessary. What I DON'T want to do is disrupt the other computer users in this house for as long as it takes to narrow the cause of these problems (by a drive to backup the existing drive's contents on, wipe the existing drive, reload the OS from scratch, swap out memory, video, etc) and the longer amount of time and money that it would take to solve them (if possible).

One last thing... which problems of mine are you claiming that I don't actually have or that "do not just happen" in OS X? I've so many and you've only responded in the most vaguest of ways, not refering to any of them in specific. I'd love to solve these problems so if you're so sure these problems are fixable... do tell how instead of just going on about how I'm full of crap.