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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Portland, Oregon
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As i walked by one of the IT guys workstations yesterday, I laughed outloud as I noticed a blue screen of death in all its glory. It was the highlight of my day.
That will be all! Away with you!
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24" iMac 2.16GHz c2d ~ 3G ram ~ 250G ~ Superdrive ~ Pure Sexiness
15" Powerbook G4 ~ 1.5GHz ~ 1.5G ram ~ 160G ~ Combo
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Posting Junkie
Join Date: Mar 2005
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Awwwww, wish you could've posted a pic.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 1999
Location: Bellevue, WA
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hmm.. could it be intentional?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
Location: Netherlands
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all you need to make people laugh out loud and post a helf assed thread on the internet is a measly blue screen
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2007
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And OSX never gets Kernel Panics
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Mac Elite
Join Date: May 2005
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I've been using OSX for two years on several different machines and I've never once had a kernel panic. I've had freezes that required a manual reboot maybe 2-3 times.
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2.3 GHz Intel i5 MacBook Pro
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Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
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I've gotten kernel panics a few times. Not nearly as much as I did in the 90s with either OS.
Having said that, my GFs XP box never blue screens or panics.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Northern VA - Just outside DC
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Maybe it was a screen saver?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Dec 2000
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maybe he was just running a test
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Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Of the emergency broadcast system. This is only a test.
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EP
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jun 2007
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Originally Posted by sdilley14
I've been using OSX for two years on several different machines and I've never once had a kernel panic. I've had freezes that required a manual reboot maybe 2-3 times.
I've been using OSX since 10.0 days and I've gotten a number of them on a number of various macs.
Don't get me wrong, Its a very stable OS, but to snicker because windows BSOD is a little childish. Mostly because on occasion OSX has KP'd People in glass houses type of thing
I'm sys admin and I manage a fairly large number of computers (macs and PCs and workstations) and to be honest, I've found windows XP, and windows server 2003 to be very stable
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Dedicated MacNNer
Join Date: Sep 2003
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I've found that Windows XP and Vista rarely lock up. OTOH, they do require reboots several times a week; my MBP only needs to be rebooted about once a month.
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Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Yeah XP is stable. But does need restarted more often than my OS X box does. Or it starts running really slow. Why is that?
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Professional Poster
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Yeah XP is stable. But does need restarted more often than my OS X box does. Or it starts running really slow. Why is that?
No argument there. I was uninstalling a text editor (ultraedit) and I had to reboot the workstation - why? Absolutely ridiculous
I've found that XP and 2k are really susceptible to memory leaks. While that's not an OS issue, it seems to bring on instabilities that I've not witnessed in OSX. I had a auditing service in memory on one work station consume 85% of VM and the only way to ensure the system didn't crash was reboot.
All in all, I like OSX its a superior OS, but it has its issues just like winblows
I've tried and disliked vista. Now that's a hog and I'm glad my company isn't moving towards that for a very long time, though I'm curious of windows server 2008. I'd like to see how that is when it goes gold
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2000
Location: Detroit
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AFAIK it still has the memory leaks. the reboots recover that. i do a reboot once a week to restore "The Snappy"
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Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
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Originally Posted by residentEvil
AFAIK it still has the memory leaks. the reboots recover that. i do a reboot once a week to restore "The Snappy"
Speaking of OS X, or Windows?
I found 10.6 to have very little leaks.
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Professional Poster
Join Date: Jan 2000
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Speaking of OS X, or Windows?
I found 10.6 to have very little leaks.
sorry; XP...the answer to your original question as to why you have to reboot Windows so much. it is because of the memory leaks.
and how do you have your hands on 10.6?
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Moderator
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Polwaristan
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my IT people like us to shut down our XP machines when we leave work for the day. Saves some on power (it makes a difference when you're running thousands of machines) and, they say, reduces the chances of their being hacked (12 hours not on the net, in the event the firewall is breached or an individual machine is infected and tries to wreak havoc on the LAN while the IT people are off duty.
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Baninated
Join Date: Oct 2002
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I was always told that a computer consumes MORE power starting up than it does running all day long. Not so sure how much truth there is to it.
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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I don't know why it would. The maximum power draw is fixed, and 45 seconds of booting is comparable to only a couple minutes of sustained use.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Albuquerque, NM
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I'm no Windows-Lover but the only time I have problems at work with my XP machine is running Avid and I call that the white screen of death. It happens with I'm running Express DV and try to minimize it.
Mac OS X is way more smother multitasking then Windows. Try checking mail when Photoshop is rendering something, etc..
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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no kidding. I move between Leopard and XP pro regularly, and am always amazed at how crappy XP multitasks, and generally how well Leopard does.
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Addicted to MacNN
Join Date: Mar 2001
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My memory leaks some times.
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Senior User
Join Date: Jul 2003
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Originally Posted by RAILhead
My memory leaks some times.
With me, it isn't the memory which leaks...
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The gene pool needs cleaning - I'll be the chlorine.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally Posted by sdilley14
I've been using OSX for two years on several different machines and I've never once had a kernel panic. I've had freezes that required a manual reboot maybe 2-3 times.
Good for you.
I get a kernal panic everytime I reboot my computer.
Must be some third party extension crap that I can't figure out.
But still, it shouldn't have that bad of an effect.
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