Please note that with the introduction of OS X much of what people know
about Macs will radically shift. Mac OS Version 8.6 was notorious for
frequent crashing - albeit, still less so than every Windows machine I've
ever used. With OS X (a.k.a. OS version 10) they've replaced the guts of
the old Mac OS and replaced it with a version of Linux, the personal
computer version of Unix which has been in existence and constantly
upgraded and upated since the early 1980's - pre-dating Windows.
Linux/Unix is generally used by large corporations and schools as an
*extremely* reliable (some theorize that the OS itself is crash-proof!)
platform. While software makers rewrite older Mac programs to best
implement OS X some applications may have problems, however, the operating
system itself is a joy to use, incredibly stable, and is open-sourced -
meaning that anyone can easily find, download and modify the guts to make
improvements. Clearly this is best left to computer science people, but
with an entire world updating Linux for over 20 years it's become very
reliable and secure.

Regarding the "my OS is more stable than yours" debate, it depends on what
the users are doing - and since each user has different needs the OS gets
blamed (sometimes wrongly) for application or hardware conflicts. Older
OS's (Win 9x and Mac before OS X) were designed as home computer operating
systems that people perverted into networking, business, graphics design,
etc. Windows XP (based upon the guts that went into Windows NT, MS's
business OS) and Mac OS X represent a new leap and a more stable
environment for users.


George Garner

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"[I]f people couldn't live together...they should at least have the
 decency to loathe each other."

                                                   --- Nick Hornby, 1998
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