My take on Computer Stability. True, a properly configured Windows machine with
out tons of extra stupid software like screensavers and floating tooldocks and
Norton, and whatnot are pretty stable. But so was our first mac. The LC III
hardly crashed, it did so mostly when I mistakenly tried to run 24-bit software
while still in 32-bit mode. My pluses are pretty stable, especially when
running my known to be bug free set of programs. But my first Powermac, a
7100/66 would crash at least once a week. I put it down to errors in emulating
680x0 code, and or cheap RAM. My PCI powermacs and clones have been really
stable- once I isolated and removed defective RAM I would come across in my
scroungings. My Power Computing PowerTower Pro with a G3 upgrade and 5 slots
full of PCI cards is crashy as heck under 8.6, 9.0.4 and 9.1; Sure it is smooth
under 7.6.1, but I am spoiled by sherlock, USB, and all kinds of neat things
like desktop pictures . I finally went to all deinterleaved new 128 MB DIMMs
(512 total) in hopes of alleviating this. It has helped a lot, but it still
tends to crash a lot. Especially in CorelDraw. I just learned to live with it,
and save like crazy. Everything seemed to be on a downhill trend, even with the
iMacs I sold at worked on at work. They were only stable after removing about
half the stupid software that came preinstalled (Palm connection software
anyone? I think out of 200 customers, we finally came across one with a Palm
Pilot.) The G4s we sold crashed too, mostly due to all the high end software
and heavy use.
I must say I was pleasantly suprised with my Pismo 400. I got it cheap when the
TiBooks came out, and it has NEVER CRASHED. IE 5 is actually stable, and
although it seems to pause for a long time occasionaly, it doesn't actually bite
the dust. Photoshop is a dream with 640 MB of RAM, and I no longer have to use
CorelDraw (Thankfully), which I suspect would crash horribly. The only time it
isn't shut down properly is when I forget the APPLE IIe keyboard restart combo
in Catakig and accidently restart the Pismo! I just got ahold of OS X and need
to install it on my partition I left for just such an occasion.
I am going to strip down the PTP and try to get it stable enough for gaming,
since the VooDoo 3 2000 outperforms the onboard graphics of the Pismo easily.
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