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• Ooops...
  2004-05-28 04:43:40  christiandupuis [View]
  
  
  One of my colleagues just came back from two weeks vacation in California, went to the Apple store and "tried" the Genius Bar. He didn't get dazzled by the experience, so I guess Apple works it the same as most other retail outlets as far as service is concerned: you get someone who can handle working with the public for a full shift, but it's a coin toss whether you'll hit the person that has the answer to your problem. However, I'm a bit surprised about the "boot in verbose, fsck -y" fiasco; that's Repair 101, as far as OS X software problems are concerned.
  
  I have a G4 that runs Panther and never crashes (it has Adobe, Macromedia, Apple and Microsoft apps on it). No third party system add-ons. My Powerbook 12 inch runs Panther as well, and the only flakyness I experienced was some weird behaviour on the dock after I'd installed a shareware dock utility. I removed the thing and I was back to full speed ahead. My XP Pro box committed "seppuku" after I installed some "XP Certified" DVD authoring software for my Pioneer A04 burner. I didn't have a Linux boot disk witn an NTFS mounter that could have let me get to my data, so I lost the work that was on the OS drive, but all the stuff I stored on the second internal drive was OK. All the usual tricks (consore repair, attempts to fix from OS CD, shaking a chicken over the monitor) didn't do squat to bring it back. I had to wipe that sucker and install a fresh XP Pro install.
  
  I use them both, but I trust the Mac a bit more.