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Originally Posted by SMHarman
The mac benefit is it is stable, XP is far more stable than its predecessors, we probably have apple to thank for that, making Microsoft up its game to catch up and move ahead, but I bet our current PC OS would not look the same if apple were not around.
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Actually, we'd probably still be using DOS.
Regarding stability. Well, let me put it this way. I support Macs and PCs running XP Pro at work. All are in air conditioned labs and left on permanently (apart from the summer months, when we close each lab individually for upgrades). The PCs seem to average around 6 months between crashes. The last time I saw a Mac properly crash (ie have to be physically reset) was in 1998, and that was a Power Mac G3 running OS 8. I have never seen Mac OSX crash.