Mac OS X Reaches First Birthday

hotsauce writes "Mac OS X is one year old, and the Washington Post has a good summary. What do people think now that we're at the promised '12 o'clock'? What's in the year ahead?" I dunno what's in the year ahead, but as for today, I got a new TiBook and had a kernel panic while watching the This Is Spinal Tap Special Edition DVD.

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Stability

[SIGFPE]

I was hoping that one year on they would have sorted out the stability issues. I have used many Unices in my life: Irix, SunOS, NeXT, Linux, *BSD but MacOS X is probably the least reliable (apart from Irix on the O2 in its later years). To still be in this position after a year is a little shameful. I have certainly had major problems while watching DVDs (major DVD slowdowns and loss of audio, failure to detect a DVD, inability to play some DVDs and inability to eject DVDs (requiring a reboot!)) among other things. What's particularly shameful is that it's less reliable than Windows 2000 which is the OS I chose to reject in favour of MacOS X.

I still love my PowerBook but it really is painful each time I have a kernel panic or it 'goes away' never to respond until I reboot.