I am proud to say that my Macbook Pro (aluminum) that I bought in January 2009 has not crashed on me, yet. That is unlike my previous Windows based machines. A lot of my friends have been switching over to the MB and MBP. It has been a great platform - it may not work out for every single user (regarding certain applications, a person's budget or job specific duties), but it was an easy transition after 20 years of Windows use for me.
CAVEAT: I do not game on my system. If I were a gamer, I would be disappointed.
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That's great to hear! However, I'll keep using Windows machines, because I like the Windows environment better than the Mac environment. I have worked with Mac and Windows machines, and I just feel more at home with Windows. To each, his or her own.
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I'm highly satisfied with it. I just hoped apple would release better drivers for bootcamp support.
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I've received ~3 kernel panics in the two years I've had my MBP
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2 times in last 8 month I think...
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often when i use office..i think my mac is allergic to those..luckily i don't need them...
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Yeah I had a real freezing three times when connecting the 3G receiver and opening wifi airport: only means was to press the power p/b. Once, I had a problem with bluetooth too.
Nevertheless, bith crash cases were adressed and no problems so far.
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MBP crashed a few times when I tried to do a big amount of apps at the same time.
At first, I satisfied with the macbook pro but quite disappoint later due to the lack of cooling, especially in windows. -
what temps do you get?
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So it still crashes when in OSX?
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Used my Macbook Pro pretty much constantly since getting it in February, and it's absolutely rock solid. No crashes at all
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However, I just dont like temp goes over 70-80 degrees while gaming in windows. -
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I know that, if the temp in windows is just as good as in osx, i wont make any complain
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To the OP, none of my Macs have ever crashed, however programs that have bugs have generally crashed, but that's about it. Generally crashing in OS X happens if you have faulty ram or a failed logic board, other than that the system is generally very stable. -
I successfully undervolted my cpu in vista and now i'm in the 60's using @2k rpm on my fans. Yay!!
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No, it's because rm clock activates the underclock once in vista.. But there's an os x equivalent for it.
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crashed a few times in 7months; only once was related to game(world of goo, nothing fancy, none on CoD4)
the occurrence is about the same to windows xp
while i get ~75C under CoD4 @max rpm
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So, what's our temps under windows?
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Perhaps he's been torrenting. Utorrent made my machine go in the 70's a few times before the fans kicked in and brought them a little bit down.
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I've never tried transmission but i also heard it had the same effect on temperature of the macbook/pro.
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no, i can shut down everything but the temp remains > 5mins before i do a reboot.(with or without BT on prior) and while that resolves the problem, i didn't count them as "crash" either.
i have BT on and normally they are at 55C@3krpm; capping at 110kb/s 5kb/s(yes i am greedy)
it might have something to do with the hibernation, and before closing the lid i will always turn off wifi and shut down transmission as well until i use my computer again -
In my 5 years of using a powerbook/macbook pro, I've only had the kernel panic (equivalent to the blue screen of death) a total of 4 times.
And those 4 times only 3 of the times due to an application that caused the kernel panic because it was not compatible with 10.5.x as to 10.4.x. No big deal. -
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I'm very happy to say both my Macbook Pros (mid-2007 and late 2008 unibody) have only crashed on 3rd party apps - like Firefox (?) and Yahoo Messenger (which is total garbage. Yahoo outdid themselves /sarcasm).
As far as 1st party apps I use such as Safari, Mail, Logic Pro and iLife, I have yet to have a crash or a "quit unexpectedly" message. Even other pro apps such as Propellerhead's Reason has behaved exemplary. -
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I got a Macbook, and I had to run vpn software, using the mac version I got kernel panics everyday I used it. Aside from those ( not caused by mac but poor 3rd party programs ) my mac has only crashed once, while opening a ms power point document. However I do get frozen programs that I have to force quit every so often. Still its very stable.
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Yes it has...my USB thumb drive gave it a hard time and I kept inserting it and taking it out as it wouldn't "eject" from the screen...eventually ed up my whole computer and I had to reinstall OS.
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Don't you think it's a badly applied thermal paste on your cpu? I would bring it to an apple store to feel assured. -
How are you temps now in Vista? And want about Coolbook?
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i had 1 kernal panic with my old mbp
Has your Macbook Pro ever crashed?
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by titaniummd, May 10, 2009.