Except for the few kernel panics I had for some reason a few weeks ago, my iBook hasn't been restarted since I installed 10.1 except for the few OS updates.
Never had a crash on my iMac since March 23rd, when I installed Mac OS X 10.0. My iBook 600 hasn't had any crashes either: it started with 10.1. My PowerMac G4 had one crash playing Quake 3 Arena, but that's it.
I've only ever had one kernel panic thanks to that Mac->PC networking programs uninstaller. I forget the name but it is an absolutely terrible program. I called the tech. support # (an international call for me) and was on hold for an HOUR AND A HALF all the while they were saying "A representative will be with you in...less than...five minutes." I ended up having to format to get rid of it.
Nope. OSX is less stable on my new iBook 600 than it was on my beige G3 266. That machine was so much stabler (I think the hardware was produced at a higher level before the coming of the iMac).
One way to crash my iBook guaranteed is to simply connect/disconnect the AV cable while a DVD is playing. (I think I got the same effect with connecting/disconnecting a monitor to the RGB out)
The iBook attempts to switch from displaying the DVD on the TV to on the LCD and the DVD player takes down the whole OS. Happened twice to me while attempting to watch DVDs.
My PC-loving girlfriend had a great laugh and I'm sure I won't be living it down for a while (so much for the stability of UNIX) so I am quite unimpressed with Apple. Hope 10.1.3 fixed the problem. I'll have to try and see.
It's mostly stable.. as long as I don't try to play any commercial games (which consistently freeze) X is nice and stable. I had a 24 day uptime that started and finished because of power outages.
i've had a few [perhaps more than few] times when the comp slowed to a crawl where i restarted, and sometimes i (gasp) stop iTunes, and it won't work again unless I restart. 've had less than 5 panics. so, its not exactly (in my experience) unstoppable, but its a lot better than anything else, in so many ways. and i love that leaky programs don't bomb the comp. (mmm... protected memory).
now, here's a completely unrelated quote for you to chew the fat over, or just think about,
"when i was just a little young boy, papa said 'son you'll neva get far. i'll tell u the reason, if u wanna know. cuz chil' of mine, there isn't really very far to go'" -Robert Hunter
No. Usually about three kernel panics a week. Has happened with every version from 10.0.4 through 10.1.3, with numerous clean installs in between.
The joys of owning a dual machine, I guess. MacOS 9 on the other hand is rock solid. Have only had one crash in 9 since I bought the machine in October, and that was in classic. Classic and 9 are rock solid.
<strong>It freezes for me. The mouse will move, but everything else just halts. I dont think I have gone a week without a restart. for one reason or another4</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm using a TiBook on an AirPort network and I have the same problem. I'm just at the edge of the range of the network and if the signal gets too weak the machine just freezes. The cursor moves but nothing responds.
Grinding halts due to unresponsive Apple apps: twice a day
Simple app crashes : IE sometimes, other betas: here and there
OS reinstalls due to networking and daemon problems: 5
cursing due to Finder flaws: 6 a day on average
cursing due to spinning rainbow cd cursor: a dozen per day
Not too shabby for a system that is still in its diapers.
But laughable for the worlds most advanced OS. Marketing is o-so-unrealistic.
By the way: 10.1.3 really did not break any of my apps and seems to squeeze the system a little bit more to proper work, despite there is the flaw with playing mpgs.
OS X locked up on me a couple of times when I was installing a classic app. And my iMac refused to wake up from sleep numerous times so I turned off sleep and now I just spin down the hard drive and put the LCD to sleep (about the only thing left running is the fan). So it's been pretty good to me so far.
iMac: 1 KP since 10.1 related to my Rio 600 being disconnected and reconnected in rapid succession. That's it.
iBook: 0 KP. 1 freeze related to the modem bug. The cursor stopped moving so I reset. When It started back up the date had reset. That was a hard crash.
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I think the program was called DAVE or something.
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I don't use it but I do use PCMacLAN installed on my PC and it works absolutely fine
One way to crash my iBook guaranteed is to simply connect/disconnect the AV cable while a DVD is playing. (I think I got the same effect with connecting/disconnecting a monitor to the RGB out)
The iBook attempts to switch from displaying the DVD on the TV to on the LCD and the DVD player takes down the whole OS. Happened twice to me while attempting to watch DVDs.
My PC-loving girlfriend had a great laugh and I'm sure I won't be living it down for a while (so much for the stability of UNIX) so I am quite unimpressed with Apple. Hope 10.1.3 fixed the problem. I'll have to try and see.
now, here's a completely unrelated quote for you to chew the fat over, or just think about,
"when i was just a little young boy, papa said 'son you'll neva get far. i'll tell u the reason, if u wanna know. cuz chil' of mine, there isn't really very far to go'" -Robert Hunter
Hee hee!
Whew!
No. Usually about three kernel panics a week. Has happened with every version from 10.0.4 through 10.1.3, with numerous clean installs in between.
The joys of owning a dual machine, I guess. MacOS 9 on the other hand is rock solid. Have only had one crash in 9 since I bought the machine in October, and that was in classic. Classic and 9 are rock solid.
<strong>It freezes for me. The mouse will move, but everything else just halts. I dont think I have gone a week without a restart. for one reason or another4</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm using a TiBook on an AirPort network and I have the same problem. I'm just at the edge of the range of the network and if the signal gets too weak the machine just freezes. The cursor moves but nothing responds.
Crashes of the entire OS: 1
Problems that required a force restart: 12
Grinding halts due to unresponsive Apple apps: twice a day
Simple app crashes : IE sometimes, other betas: here and there
OS reinstalls due to networking and daemon problems: 5
cursing due to Finder flaws: 6 a day on average
cursing due to spinning rainbow cd cursor: a dozen per day
Not too shabby for a system that is still in its diapers.
But laughable for the worlds most advanced OS. Marketing is o-so-unrealistic.
By the way: 10.1.3 really did not break any of my apps and seems to squeeze the system a little bit more to proper work, despite there is the flaw with playing mpgs.
only problem I have, it won't shut down,
am getting a blue screen with that stupid spinning ball. have to hold the startup button a few seconds ...
At start up everything is fine... any ideas for a fix other than a full re-install?
I once had a kernel panic on startup...
but that was no big deal... restarted and whalla... everything worked fine...
Sometimes when I set it to sleep, the sleep light comes on but then later stops pulsing and it falls into a coma...
But overall I havent had any such problems on X that ticked me off as much as they did on OS9...
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Not one freeze ever
Not one reastart due to any problem ever
Not one restart period in 58 days.
TiBook/400/384, OS X 10.1.2
iBook: 0 KP. 1 freeze related to the modem bug. The cursor stopped moving so I reset. When It started back up the date had reset. That was a hard crash.
i get the spinning beach ball of death a lot.