Blue Screen of Death on an iMac

Just to add to an earlier post:

The BSOD hasn't really been a problem on Windows since Win98 and ME. 2000 and XP are very stable, with most of the problems I've seen being directly related to users themselves. I work with many, many computers and have seen perhaps 3 BSOD's since Win2000 came out.

I'm not a big Windows freak either, I work in Windows, Linux, Solaris/AIX/HPUX, and OS/390 environments. I love OS X also, my next machine will prolly be an Apple. They're just computers though, not worth all of this passion.

UNIX-based systems are not targeted too often with viruses, but that will change if Apple ever gets the Lion's share of the market.

the problem with mac and linux users is that they are smug arrogant bigots, with their noses so far up their own b*tt they chew their own food twice.
I have been using windows ME, 98, XP for over 7 years and never had any Blue screen of death as its called. Yet you lot whinge about it as if its a major felony...GET REAL!
Unix and Linux programs are junk,...just look at the latest drab, dreary, half-finished offerings Ubuntu & Fedora 5,...
Its like a customer wanting a Rolls Royce only to find he's buying a car with half an engine, 3 wheels, half a gearbox, & backaxle,...and the customer is then expected to assemble it at home.

Guess why most of the audio stack is moving out of kernel mode in Vista? Because a lot of drivers suck. Interestingly even Apple diehards like Adam Curry abandoned the Mac (at least for making his podcast) due to audio issues that kept screwing up the show.

There is a GOD! There is a GOD!

Steve is a genius! Sorry I ever doubted him.

Hmmm, must be a hoax, there are some jaggies on the edges of the image where it joins the screen and, the font just doesn't look right.

And besides fX86756GFH is an incorrect register address.

LOL ;)

Yah well guess how many kernel panics I've had in the month and a half with my MBP...2. That's half the number I've had with XP over the course of 5 years. And don't tell me its the hardware. Both Apple's and Applecare CD's diagnostics come back clean. Fanboys are so pathetic. There is a reason its called a freaking BETA.

isn't it obvious? the BSOD happens because proprietary Mac hardware is not fully supported by Windows.

i have been running Win XP for years now and have NEVER, EVER, seen the blue screen, no matter what i connect. here you run it with lousy drivers and it crashes. is that surprising?

supporting Win XP on an Apple is yet another Apple stunt to "prove" to people that Windows is unstable and OS X is better: of course it is, on hardware that has been specced exactly to Apple's requirements. get over it.

i've seen OS X crash. i've seen Windows crash. they're computers after all, what's new?

Umm....I don't know if I want filth leaping around my hard drive. The blue screen of death is like......the worst thing that could ever happen, ish. Basically, it would have to be life or death putting windows on my intel-based MacBook Pro, which I don't currently own......If windows can't even run on a REAL computer, then what..................

Ditto. Tried browsing a "USB Video Device" in "My Computer" and BSOD.

The only thing I want to do is play one freakin' game without needing to be @ my PC and whomever wrote the driver couldn't even manage to get it right enough to let me do that without me now worrying that the stupid thing will crash right in the middle of a battle (EVE Online).

Sigh.

Been using OS X for well over three years now, and I've only ever experienced a kernel panic once, and that was on Panther.

Granted, it's not uncommon for individual applications to lock up (why are you blaming Apple for that anyway?), but it's never meant I've needed to reboot or reset. It's easy enough to end the program and carry on working.

Look, WinXP is far more stable than previous versions of Windows, and many users can go for months without seeing a BSOD. But in my experience my iMac running OS X is far more stable than any of my four PCs running WinXP.

Stating the obvious does not make you a mindless fanboi, it's worth remembering that.