spyordie007
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I've never gotten the bomb in OS X; but have seen a kernel panic (they have the "black screen" rather than a "blue screen").
Of course back before OS X crashes on Macs were quite common also, OS 9 was awful.
I?ve liked OS X since I first got to play with the beta, it?s an awesome OS and you could (at least at the time) get a bash shell running on it and do pretty much whatever you want.
I wish I still had a Mac to play around with now.
I?m also glad that Apple broke compatibility (or for the things that did work forced them into classic mode).
Blue screens in Windows XP are also very rare, and when the do occur it's more frequently a hardware or driver issue than an issue with the OS. This is a major change from Windows 9x where they seemed to be a regular occurrence (hence the term 3 finger salute).Which is about 500 less than when I was a Mac hating PC user.
Of course back before OS X crashes on Macs were quite common also, OS 9 was awful.
Not to mention making their OS a lot less stable. A major advantage that Apple has with their systems is the hardware, since they are a hardware vendor they can stick with good quality hardware in the case (as opposed to Windows which may suffer the fate of getting stuck on a POS e-machine and that Microsoft gets blamed when the thing crashes). Of course the disadvantage to them controlling the hardware is that it tends to be more expensive.Apple makes OS X to sell Macs, if Apple made OS X available to your average Joe for him to run on his $300 eMachine, they'd be killing their hardware business.
I?ve liked OS X since I first got to play with the beta, it?s an awesome OS and you could (at least at the time) get a bash shell running on it and do pretty much whatever you want.
I wish I still had a Mac to play around with now.
I?m also glad that Apple broke compatibility (or for the things that did work forced them into classic mode).
That would be pretty funny. I wish Microsoft would do the same thing with Windows Vista that Apple did with OS X and break compatibility; (of course we know they wont, they just have to big of an application base to break it and still try to keep customers happy).Microsoft isn't going to want to have Linux with it's support for the Win32 API (called wine) to have superior compatability with older Windows applications then Windows.