Mac owners: Are you getting frustrated with your mac because of instability?

I have one of the new macbook pro 17" laptops and over time I've been noticing that it's just getting more and more unstable, i.e. Things crash and whenever I try to resume it from sleep I often have problems. Now, to be fair I've installed a bunch of utilities that run on startup and I use it for programming.

So I have monkeyed with it a good bit. But I'm surprised by how unstable it is. There doesn't seem to be much of a difference in stability with Macs vs Windows these days not that Macs are getting more popular.

What's been your experience? Asked by ChristianC 58 months ago Similar Questions: Mac owners frustrated mac instability Recent Questions About: Mac owners frustrated mac instability Computers > Software.

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This thing is solid as a rock I have a 17" Macbook Pro. It's not the brand-new 2.4 ghz one, it's from the generation just prior. I put this thing through the paces.

Every now and then I have a problem waking it up from sleep, but I just close the lid and try again and it works fine. The only stability problems I have come from Windows running Parallels.

My stable Mac I don't do much heavy lifting with my Mac, but my Powerbook has been very reliable for over a year now. My browser will occasionally crash, or a program will randomly will stop responding, but never with a frequency that it becomes a problem, and definitely no more than my PC. I've even edited HD video on it and it's held up fine!

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The OS is stable; not all the apps are I have not had a single OS crash since before 10.4.3 or so. Some third-party apps are prone to crashing, and it's certainly possible that some of the "bells and whistles" you've added do not live well with other applications. Some apps (AOL's Instant Messaging is an example) often don't behave well with the Mac's "sleep" function (sleep causes an AIM logoff and awaking generates a login; sometimes AIM's timing is off and the app crashes).

My main complaint with the Mac OS is memory management becomes fragmented after a week or so without a restart. The result is more and more time is spent page swapping off the hard drive and performance gets sluggish. Apparently, the only fix is shutting down all open apps and restarting.

Memory fragmentation has been an issue with the Mac OS forever (at least from System 7). OS-X users in the habit of shutting down and then restarting every day or so are not likely to notice, but laptop owners who see no need to ever restart will. It would be nice if Apple finally got around to addressing the issue.

I do tell people that the more I use Windows, the more I love my Macintosh. I have a number of complaints with Windows, but OS stability isn't one of them (although I have seen WinXP Service Pack 2 totally freeze, but that's been rare enough that it isn't really much of an issue). I haven't had enough time on Vista to be sure that it's a solid as OS-X, but I have yet to see it crash.

1 When you post your answer please give details on your setup.

When you post your answer please give details on your setup.

2 I'm using a three year old 14" PowerBook G4 768 MB RAM OS 10.4.9I'll upgrade to the Intel Mac after 811n and Blu-Ray burner become standard (that'll surely be after the Intel native MS Office for the Mac is released next year). I don't do software development on the Mac; so, the G4 remains sufficient for my needs. One of the things I like most about the Mac is that my friends find it necessary to buy new PC's far more frequently than I need to buy new Macs (I've been using Macs since 1990).

I'm using a three year old 14" PowerBook G4 768 MB RAM OS 10.4.9I'll upgrade to the Intel Mac after 811n and Blu-Ray burner become standard (that'll surely be after the Intel native MS Office for the Mac is released next year). I don't do software development on the Mac; so, the G4 remains sufficient for my needs. One of the things I like most about the Mac is that my friends find it necessary to buy new PC's far more frequently than I need to buy new Macs (I've been using Macs since 1990).

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