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Does anyone really get that bent out of shape over this anymore? Everyone learned about it 3 years ago. I'll bet most people can't even tell what the actual icon is when they are browsing on their network. There are tons of icons in OS X with minute details that you don't notice in normal usage of the OS. Ever notice the Lorem Ipsum on the Dictionary icon? How about "ie sucks" on the CSSEdit icon?
"This is one of the things that makes me hesitate to get a Mac when I get my first laptop next year. Spec-wise a Macbook would fit my needs perfectly, but I'm just not sure I want to become part of the Mac demographic. Unfortunately, said demographic tends to intersect with the irritating-smug-people demographic and I don't want anything to do with that. I like Macs, but I wish the company was secure enough in its betterness to present itself simply as creating great products, not as a creating products that are better than everything else."
its like saying i prefer bsod over a pic of bsod. ha ha
It's an obnoxious image, and the author is right that Apple (and everyone else) should use either 10.5 or Leopard more consistently. That said, I simply cannot remember the last time an Apple computer hard froze on me - not an application, the entire OS. It simply doesn't seem to happen. (Also his link to a picture of a crashed Apple (presumably?) seems broken.) That said, I also run Debian, and complete system lock-…
Ooh, that's not true, I've crashed OSX a fair number of times. Why, just 2 days ago the keyboard on my MB randomly stopped working. I couldn't type a thing (until rebooting). Both my MB and MBP will occasionally have the mouse not show up when waking the machine up (have to reboot), and sometimes freeze when I zoom out to all windows. On my mac pro desktop, I've had the disk utility freeze the entire OS just by runni…
On my macs, Flash will regularly eat my cursor, and jitouch and my Wacom drivers can occasionally interfere with my keyboard or cause recent versions of iTunes to crash, but none of these require a reboot, and usually don't even require me to log out to recover.
Your MBP clearly needs a new battery if your machine dies when it's still at 20-30%. I bet if you went to the power section of System Profiler, you'd see see the full charge capacity of your battery is less than one fourth of its rated capacity. I once abused a battery so badly that its full charge capacity was less than one tenth of its rated capacity. (Oddly enough, this was partly due to Windows, but that's a story for another day.)
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Oh, I can, but it was a RAM issue. The fated gray screen of death. Now, my Windows computer that I built a few months ago for playing games... that'll lock up if, get this, you don't use it for a while. BSOD's when nothing happens. Play a game? You're fine. Leave it sitting for 5 minutes? Drops dead.
Some hardware might be failing. Have you taken the time to look into the error codes it gives you? I would also guess that it is trying to use a power saving feature which may not be supported by your computer, as another commenter pointed out.
I did do a search for the error codes and it was just a bunch of people saying, "Hi, I'm getting this error code, help."
It's comforting to know that, no matter what happens, Windows will always suck.
Does anyone really get that bent out of shape over this anymore? Everyone learned about it 3 years ago. I'll bet most people can't even tell what the actual icon is when they are browsing on their network. There are tons of icons in OS X with minute details that you don't notice in normal usage of the OS. Ever notice the Lorem Ipsum on the Dictionary icon? How about "ie sucks" on the CSSEdit icon?
It's an obnoxious image, and the author is right that Apple (and everyone else) should use either 10.5 or Leopard more consistently. That said, I simply cannot remember the last time an Apple computer hard froze on me - not an application, the entire OS. It simply doesn't seem to happen. (Also his link to a picture of a crashed Apple (presumably?) seems broken.) That said, I also run Debian, and complete system lock-…
Windows doesn’t crash anymore. No more than OS X anyway. I do think, however, that the use of this icon is ok. It’s a cheap potshot at Windows but it’s only visible if you use Quicklook or Coverflow, no big deal. And, contrary to the author, I don’t believe that you should only mock if you are flawless. (This is [2007], by the way. The BSOD icon is still there, though. It wasn’t removed with 10.6 update.)
It is no more smug than the envelope/stamp imagery used for email - it's not as if we email users look down upon those poor deluded souls who still cling to their snail mail. (do we?)
It's an obnoxious image, and the author is right that Apple (and everyone else) should use either 10.5 or Leopard more consistently. That said, I simply cannot remember the last time an Apple computer hard froze on me - not an application, the entire OS. It simply doesn't seem to happen. (Also his link to a picture of a crashed Apple (presumably?) seems broken.) That said, I also run Debian, and complete system lock-…
I've had it happen, and I also lost data on my MacBook. Apparently a disk was faulty. They say that can happen to anyone, but it never happened to me with non-Apple hardware.
I cannot stress this enough: Backup your data. Even if you have RAID, you can still accidentally delete data. Considering how simple it is to use Time Machine, there's no excuse for not having backups.
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Windows doesn’t crash anymore. No more than OS X anyway. I do think, however, that the use of this icon is ok. It’s a cheap potshot at Windows but it’s only visible if you use Quicklook or Coverflow, no big deal. And, contrary to the author, I don’t believe that you should only mock if you are flawless. (This is [2007], by the way. The BSOD icon is still there, though. It wasn’t removed with 10.6 update.)
Actually, it can be seen in smaller version on the side of Finder under shared. I find it funny that i have two computer connected, one using NFS which shows up a cool LCD and another one using SMB showing up with the BSOD icon and both running Linux ;p