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My Windows PC never crashed like my Macbook does.
by vemy 12y ago
My Windows PC never crashed like my Macbook does.
- Goopplesoft 12y agoThis is all anecdotal. Mac user for years and never had a crash. These types of comment provide very little to these threads.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoIts data. The existence of crashes is evidence of something.
- wlesieutre 12y agoIt may be data, but it is not a statistically significant amount of data. And there's an awful lot of selection bias in product complaints.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoCrashes are not statistics. Code crashes or it doesn't. So something smells in Denmark.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoCmon. There's no such thing as a 'false positive' in code crashes. Its a binary thing - correct code doesn't do it. So something is wrong with an OS that crashes for somebody. Its got nothing to do with selection bias. And if it crashes for certain people chronically, then there's a syndrome that's reproducible. Meaning it is likely to affect a lot of people in similar circumstances.
- wlesieutre 12y agoCrashes aren't new. OS X has had them for a long time, they're just less common than some other operating systems. The question is whether you can go from "2 or 3 friends of mine said they have more crashes than before" to "10.9.3 is more prone to crashing than 10.9.2." For all we know, the entire sample is using some 3rd party utility that crashes under the new update, which is bad, but is also not something you can completely blame Apple for.
- wyclif 12y agoI'm still developing on SL. That's one way of never having a crash or kernel panic...
- Pacabel 12y agoIt isn't just "anecdotal" when you happen to be the one who has to use a computer that crashes in such a way, regardless of who makes it, or what OS it's running.
- epmatsw 12y agoAs a counter-anecdote, I've been running 10.9.x on my laptop since the first beta and haven't had a grey screen since beta 2 came out. On the other hand, my 1 year old Windows desktop running Windows 7 has had 4 BSODs this year.