And, if the number of hits had been commensurate with market share, the number of hits on the PC term should have been around 35,000,000. I guess you'll just never get it. What you remark about (the upgrades) a PC user would consider passe. Last week, I connected my prototype hardware to WindowsUpdate. It had been just over a month since I had last updated it. There were 17 critical updates, which I loaded. Gee, if I only had a Mac, I would have had something to brag about! John Willkie > At 9:38 AM -0500 12/10/04, Mark Schubin wrote: >>Without meaning to defend any operating system, I would just like to >>point out that the words "Mac crashes" yielded 709,000 hits on Google. > > And there are about 1.8 million hits for "PC crashes... > > The difference is not as large as I would have expected. > > Things have really stabilized in the past two years since I have > upgraded to MacOSX. Yes I still have an occasional crash (maybe once > every 30 - 60 days), but I have not had to re-install existing > software or drivers in two years. I just accept the software upgrade > notices I need when my system checks for updates, or is notified of > new updates by Apple. > > I did have a problem early this year that I though was related to an > Airport (WiFi) software upgrade, but it turned out that the 802.11B > card was dying. > > Regards > Craig > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: > > - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at > FreeLists.org > > - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word > unsubscribe in the subject line. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.