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To: inaflash who wrote (51164)	2/16/2006 3:54:13 PM
From: Lee Harper	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213177

"Can't wait till the instant boot systems come out soon." The Intel iMacs boot in about 25 seconds. Gettin' there.

To: inaflash who wrote (51164)	2/16/2006 4:09:46 PM
From: OrionX	Respond to of 213177

Macs are not infallible. As much as I like and prefer OSX it's not bulletproof. There are applications or combinations of applications that will cause it to freeze up like a rock and a hard shutdown is the only option left. Had this happen to me yesterday and still can't find the culprit except for some combination related to using Camino. Go figure. And, the crash report didn't report anything because the whole system froze up!

To: inaflash who wrote (51164)	2/16/2006 6:19:19 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 213177

I have problems shutting down my Mac sometimes. 1) Microsoft Entourage 2) Microsoft Word 3) iTunes 4) Quicktime Many times I have to force quit these before the OS allows a shutdown. I never used to put my OS9 machines to sleep but sleep on OSX works great. I do reboot my OSX machine to clear problems but not nearly as often as any of the other machines I've owned. Most of the problems are application related rather than OS related IMHO. Odd that Apple's software is the second least stable. One would expect Microsoftware to be unstable but Apple has no excuse.