When the iMac came out... that was the worst.
Mine crashed the first time I scanned a large file and attempted to open it in Photoshop...
Then the machine would not give me back my CD.
The operator on the "help" line would only tell me about the "secret paperclip button" if I agreed to fork over $75 for some kind of maintenance call fee....
Peoples Ipods are now suffering from a lack of security (getting stolen) and Zune is becoming more appealing.
What's your Mac Horror Story?
2007-06-26 11:02:40 · 5 answers · asked by rabble rouser 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Sorry, I have never had a Mac! I am a PC girl! *sm*
2007-06-26 15:02:09 · answer #1 · answered by LadyZania 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't run a Mac now but I had a very bad experience with it before when Mac OS merely hitted version 8:
I was in the programming class of my local high school, a C course using Macs (both strange choices in their own circumstances to be sure) and I mistakenly wrote
while (x = 0) instead of the correct
while (x == 0)
That immediately sent that Power Mac into debugging mode which is essentially a crash before paperclipping the back, I did not save entire pages of code and had it lost, that was about a decade ago but traumatic enough that I'm still suspicious of Metrowerks (the maker of that IDE) and Apple Macs in general.
2007-06-26 18:16:49 · answer #2 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The old Imacs froze a lot and windows keeps on freezing and twice it just stopped working and I had to reload everything. However, the new Macintoshes are based on the Mach unix kernel and therefore are pretty much incapable of freezing. If it was a new IMac then it wasn't frozen, it was just running really slowly. But at least macintoshes don't force you to re image your entire system which windows xp made me do twice. I lost all my files twice. The worst part is that it happened whenever I had something really important to do
Because of these two problems, I have just switched completely to linux.
2007-06-26 18:30:55 · answer #3 · answered by iammisc 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hm, I used PCs all of my life and it has been miserable. I got my mac when I started college, and life has been less frusterating and much easier. I've not had any virus, hacking, program issues, harware problems.. etc. It's been great not worrying about all of that. Of course all machines are prone to having difficulties and such, not one or the pther are perfect, but I personally hate PCs, because they've failed me oh so much in the past..
I love my iPod, also, it's my favourite, I've played with a zune, it's... okay.
I'm much happier staying away from PCs. I don;t have one as of yet.
2007-06-26 18:13:30 · answer #4 · answered by Mrs. Hallows 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no particular stories but each type has their fans and their "enemies", ive never had a mac so i dont know what they are like but people that like macs will slag off pcs and people that like pcs will slag off macs and you dont know really which to believe but i do think that anything electronic will have its weak points and its strong points and i am happy using pcs, i would love to try a mac but i believe they are way different to windows
2007-06-26 18:28:43 · answer #5 · answered by D McC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋