[citation][nom]excalibur1814[/nom]Yoder54 : " The problem was the result of installing some antiquated software"Thats all I needed to know right there. Apple, somehow has a lot of young supporters that simply cannot see the wood for the trees. We have the older chaps like myself who know what apple are doing, what they sell and can appreciate them and probably use both MS and apple without the madness that comes with it. So many people are now moving to Macs and all I can say is goodbye. How many times have I visited a home to clean up porn/illegal music download/illegal software caused problems and nearly ALL of them say, "Bloomin WIndows!" EXCUSE me, the problem, as above, sits between the keyboard and mouse.Mark my words, the more people that move to macs, the more problems will rise and HEAVEN forbid that the virus/malware guys take note... you'll be back to square one, blaming the software.Just take a quick peak into an apple forum and read about the problems.. go on, I dare you. Apple, Microsoft, Windows, OSX = all fine, all work. The user is the problem (but hey, not all of the time! I'm looking at you HP printer drivers, Creative drivers etc etc)Have a nice day.[/citation]
Don't get me started on Creative drivers...
Dunno about anyone else here but I've been using the same install of XP Pro SP3 for 18 months and it has never crashed, even thought utorrent *cough* installed itself *cough* and my Firefox has been know to visit the more...risque web sites (naughty Firefox!)
I'll definitely agree that the vast, vast majority of problems are PEBCAK though, no matter what the OS.
Also you can't check out the Mac problems on the Apple forum, because Apple censors it