on Jan 13th, 2008
Macs crash too
So I’m loving my iMac, but it sure irks me when I hear things like: “you never need to restart your Mac” or “your Mac won’t crash” or “Macs are lots more stable than PCs”. I can’t count the number of times I’ve had to reboot Leopard now to fix weird things that started happening. Just little things, like the dock’s background disappearing, and the text over icons no longer showing. Or the DoubleCommand app no longer working for some unexplained reason; just to name a few.
And the number of program crashes I’ve had, almost makes me feel like Vista was more stable. And it’s not just 3rd party programs like CyberDuck FTP (crashes ALL the time), but even Mail.app and Safari crash often enough to be annoying. The “rock solid” image that all the Mac fan boys keep screaming about just isn’t there in the long haul.
Don’t get me wrong… I love OS X. Having recently moved all my domains to use Google Apps for e-mail (etc), I not longer need my PC for day to day use (although Picasa is better than iPhoto, and Sony Vegas can do AVCHD natively; iMovie can’t). I use MailPlane to have almost instant access to my e-mail accounts, which nothing is stored locally. I’ve fully switched (for the most part), and I use Coda for all my PHP development.
So… that’s my rant. Mail.app just crashed on me again so I thought I’d write about it.