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  • Spartan225, on 11/01/2007, -117/+343HAHAHAHA that is pretty funny....
    • PRlME, on 10/29/2007, -85/+22HAHAHA NOTTTTTT -thats just as old as the blue screen jokes
      • arcticblue, on 10/29/2007, -17/+53Jeez dude. Did Apple hit a sore spot?
        • rompom7, on 10/29/2007, -6/+14No seriously though, if in any other context someone replied with "HAHAHAHA that is pretty funny....", would they get dugg up to +143 (at time of post)?

          I'm glad to see Apple having a sense of humor, usually their jabs at Microsoft aren't funny (Mac vs PC ads anyone?), but I'll give them this.
        • ayeroxor, on 10/28/2007, -19/+12Know what MACINTOSH stands for?

          Most Applications Crash. If Not, The Operating System Hangs. HAHAHAHA.
          • scoot2006, on 10/27/2007, -3/+8Thanks for playing though.
          • ben_nushmut, on 11/06/2007, -1/+5Hey, the 90's ended a long time ago. Like 7 or 8 years. Or did your clock get screwed after that one crash?
        • Spuy767, on 10/27/2007, -8/+3Oooh, good ribbing there. How old are you?
      • firstpost, on 10/27/2007, -4/+21That's because it is a blue screen joke.
      • cygnus2112, on 10/28/2007, -19/+12You have discovered that Digg is a popular spot for the Mac fanboi base. Criticize not or watch your very valid opinion plunge into the depths from zealots with burning eyes and odd superiority complexes. Because we all know that Apples are just glorified toys and, sadly, all they really ever will be.
    • astrosmash, on 10/26/2007, -22/+6Sweet.
    • Aggaman, on 10/27/2007, -20/+49I guess it is sort of true. However, the good news for Windows fanboys is that I had an OS X kernel panic this morning. The bad news for Windows fanboys is that it is the first one I've had since 2001 and OS 10.0. Damn Apple and their POS unreliable operating system.
      • WhiteRaven, on 10/28/2007, -18/+81Well, I've never had a BSOD in XP so what's your point?
        • zacharyseibert, on 10/27/2007, -51/+18Here's what ya do....turn your computer on.


          Problem solved....you'll BSOD in no time.
          • chrisostermann, on 10/26/2007, -14/+8No no no. Im a mac fanboy but I must admit, xp is pretty solid. It only too 6 years since release (came out actually 6 years ago today) to get that way....
          • Terc, on 10/28/2007, -5/+19How to: Blue Screen The Easy Way

            Install buggy video drivers. Or printer drivers. Or audio drivers.
            Use computer for a few minutes.
            Blue Screen!

            Apple solves this by:
            - Controlling the hardware present in Macs.
            - Including their own drivers for their hardware
            - Testing drivers before release

            Is this "cheating"? I suppose so, but it works, damn it!
          • jrbrewin, on 10/26/2007, -1/+8odd then, that i've had macos 10.4 lock up more times than xp, on the same hardware.
          • shawnz, on 10/27/2007, -2/+3chrisostermann: so you mean windows xp magically became stable yesterday, even though there were no kernel related updates that day?
        • DoodleMaster, on 10/26/2007, -19/+3The idiocy of that comment is literally causing me to get dumbing
          • vanscott, on 10/26/2007, -2/+6You know what they say, "get busy dumbing or get busy dying"
        • Boomer7491, on 10/26/2007, -3/+19Get dumbing? Looks like its working already.
          • ayeroxor, on 10/26/2007, -0/+6Looks like it's working for you too. You wanted to reply to DoodleMaster's comment, but you somehow did not click where it says "Reply to DoodleMaster's comment"
        • jer2eydevil88, on 10/26/2007, -6/+8Try using a Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS sound card with an Nvidia 6800 and an NForce 3 motherboard chipset... you'll grow really fond of the BSOD in XP... Both companies pass the blame back and forth and the system is so outdated now that they refuse to update drivers...
          • edwartica, on 10/26/2007, -2/+2Or better yet, put in a faulty memory stick! Heheh, yeah, did it...and it wasn't pretty.
          • Terc, on 10/26/2007, -6/+2Bad memory would crash any OS, however, a specific combination of hardware.... That's an OS bug--- *cough* erm feature, yeah, it's a feature. jer2eydevil88, clearly, Windows is trying to tell you that you have chosen a bad combination of hardware... Yup, that's it.
          • ayeroxor, on 10/27/2007, -1/+8Terc: Explain how third-party vendors writing non-compliant code is an artifact of the OS.
          • perral1, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Funny, I've got almost that exact setup (Audigy 2 ZS Platinum, nForce 3 mobo, 6800 Ultra, and an FX-55) and haven't had issues in about a year and a half. I admit, for the first six or so months after i got it, i did get a few BSODs (i think due to overheating northbridge), but since I added a side fan all's been good. I haven't actually seen the BSOD screen on my computer in a while; last one I saw was on my Dell, which had some 200 different malware infections (the true bane of Windows).

            I'm also running (testing) Vista on the same aforementioned computer, again without issues. Although I would like to comment that so far creative's support of vista has been utter crap.
        • eggnet, on 10/26/2007, -2/+6Are you sure?

          http://www.mvps.org/marksxp/WindowsXP/bsod.php
        • Endemoniada, on 10/26/2007, -5/+9I've had a dozen BSODs in a few days on my XP computer. None of them were because of the fact that it runs XP, though. Some hardware or hardware driver in my computer isn't playing nice, and is crashing games and making windows BSOD.
          99 times out of 100, BSODs are caused by faulty hardware or drivers. Windows XP itself is actually quite stable.
          • PhireN, on 10/26/2007, -1/+3Driver stability is XP's problem, but on the other hand; The time I got the most (but not all) bsod's was when my hard drive was dying slowly, starting off with one a hour, until a few weeks later, it was more than one a min.

            I use linux now, it lasted for over a hour, just idling after I accidentally pulled the ide cable out.
        • Terc, on 10/26/2007, -6/+1Too bad that handling system resources is the OS's JOB!!
          If a software company elects to place the responsibility on the hardware manufacturers to provide well written drivers... well, then it's the software company's problem when their OS gains a reputation for poor stability, or, more relevant to Vista's issues, it's the software company's fault when their OS is known for poor hardware support.
          • jrbrewin, on 10/26/2007, -3/+2unlike leopard, vista has elected to re-write most of the os, or at the very least change it.
            your statement wouldn't be so bad, in a macos thread, if 10.0 was stable, or even usable. Alas it wasn't, and everyone who was unfortunate enough to witness just how poor a NEW os can testify to that.

            just like osx10.0, vista will take a service pack to fix it to make it more usable, which is usually the case with new operating systems.
            Don't forget, despite what steve, and his robots say, leopard isn't a new os.. it's a service pack with a handful of new features which exist in other operating systems already, that you pay $100+ for. Is that what we call value now?
        • tektalk, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2I'm actually considering downgrading from Vista to XP ( or switching to mac ) because I had gotten 6 BSODs' over the course of four months, when I never had a BSOD in XP as well.
      • superalamar, on 10/26/2007, -21/+3perhaps that's because the BSOD won't display in XP unless you are in debug mode.
        • cmgarcia, on 10/26/2007, -0/+12You're a moron.
        • aDJsavedmylife, on 10/26/2007, -5/+1So the error still occurs, but it's just hidden. Great way to sort the problem out.
        • shawnz, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3not only are you wrong, but i'm pretty sure he would have noticed a sudden unexpected reboot (and a message when he logged in saying his computer just bluescreened)
      • miles32, on 10/26/2007, -1/+15I saw a BSOD once...
        I learned the power of accessing memory that im not supposed to...
        • Raznog, on 10/27/2007, -1/+3Windows XP really is stable I've been running it since it first came out and I've only had BSOD 2 or three times when i was overclocking my cpu. Never had one when running it on my Macbook pro. for that matter i haven't crashed running vista on my macbook pro either. It's a great commercial OS that runs on tons of different hardware configs, thats one thing you can't say about mac os. Which has a very limited number of configs it can use. That is why it will tend to be more stable then windows it is specially designed to work on a set number of configs so the drivers are able to be built to work perfectly every time.
    • djpants428, on 10/26/2007, -10/+19This has been in leopard since at least the WWDC Beta...
      • Laughto, on 10/26/2007, -2/+24Yeah but it's pretty cool this is carrying over to the actual release
        • jrbrewin, on 10/29/2007, -7/+4cool, if you are 8 years old or and old aged man in a tired turtleneck. yes.
          still, it would be harder to capture osx crashing, since it just hangs indefinately without warning.
    • ajaddison, on 10/26/2007, -8/+3Wow, it doesn't sound like you just threw some meaningless comment out there so you could be the first commenter. Congratulations. Now go offer that dude your Park Place McDonalds piece...
    • MoClippa, on 10/26/2007, -13/+25It's funny, and I liked it when they had it in the Beta because its essentially an inside joke between developers, reviewers and apple... but if this made it into the final version, its just childish.
      • BTallack, on 10/26/2007, -1/+12It did make it into the final. (Build 9A581)
      • therightclique, on 10/29/2007, -18/+12its childish and ridiculously inaccurate. for starters, its a 9x BSOD. Not something ANYBODY is worrying about. secondably, BSODs are extremely rare in xp, even before sp2, but especially after sp2. these stupid stereotypes have carried since the 90s, when pcs were FAR superior to macs, right to this minute when pcs are only mildly superior to macs. i've been a pc repair tech professionally for 6 years and personally for 15 years.
        • MAJORstrasser, on 10/27/2007, -3/+14Doesn't that make you a bit biased? I mean, of course you want people to buy PCs: that's what you repair. No problems = no job :'(
        • buddhistMonkey, on 10/27/2007, -0/+11I was going to digg you down, but I spared you because I love the word "secondably." It's excellentive.
          • meatmcguffin, on 10/26/2007, -0/+8Bad news pal, I'm not sure excellentive is a perfectly cromulent word.
          • ayeroxor, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3meat: Embiggen your mind, man.
          • obeythefist, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2holy jesus. you guys are funny as crap.
      • ThinkBox, on 10/26/2007, -5/+13Yeah because Bill Gates talking about the assortment of viruses on the Mac isnt childish at all
        • ayeroxor, on 10/26/2007, -5/+4Someone has to pop your bubble of artificial reality.
          • Spuy767, on 10/29/2007, -7/+2What bubble? The magic bubble that says, My Mac doesn't get viruses, but my PC occasionally does, no matter how careful I am with it. I'm tired of treating a PC like its a piece of heirloom china because the OS is so hellbent on 15 years of backward compatibility that there are holes present in the software that the manufacturer refuses to fix lest they break their precious backward compatibility.
          • turpenine, on 10/26/2007, -4/+1I gugg spuy down on accident, also, the backwards compatibility doesn't even work.
          • shawnz, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2spuy: how is the ability to execute binaries a hole? i believe when you run an executable as the system administrator, it's meant to be able to do whatever it wants.
    • archivist, on 10/26/2007, -10/+7i think by this time... it's not funny anymore. grow up.
    • spargett, on 10/29/2007, -12/+4I didn't see any Easter Eggs (the things chickens lay and humans dye colors, then hide). Just PC displays with the blue screen. Where do people come up with theses terms? I think I'll call my mouse "Broccoli" for now on.
      • VPurpmalkV, on 10/29/2007, -1/+4Enjoy your Broccoli. The term Easter Egg has been used to describe content like this for a couple Decades, But I really hope your broccoli trend catches on.
        • DarkSamus, on 10/29/2007, -0/+2*****, now i'm always gonna remember this moron's comment every time i order beef with broccoli
    • 1town, on 11/10/2007, -8/+4Welcome to last year.
  • digitalpencil, on 10/29/2007, -106/+13lol.. does that display only when the machine refuses connection or all the time?
    & to those FB bashers who are inevitably going to jump on this thread arguing that BSOD's a thing of the past... it ain't. I got it last week on my ***** bootcamp. Unstable, resource-hogging piece of crap. I'm switching back to XP, screw DX10 support.. it ain't worth the grief!
    Hopefully they'll sort it eventually but I won't hold my breath, either that or drop this ME sequel and give me DX10 in XP! Can't see that happening though, I guess keeping a gun over it is the only reason M$ can come up with for users to upgrade. Definitely not for features like Backup.. WTF is that about? Packard Bell's store&save utility's better than that piece of junk!
  • BlueStarr, on 10/27/2007, -66/+11My XP box restarted a couple of days ago. It's done that few times in the last year. Pretty koo.
  • TGMD, on 11/04/2007, -292/+633Pretty childish of Apple, would've been more funny oh 8 years ago.
    • lordtyros, on 11/04/2007, -39/+320Yeah, that beige monitor and blue screen are so windows 98.
    • richardhenry, on 11/01/2007, -85/+168The world needs more subtle comedy. Besides, it's what people associate with a PC!
      • 1of42, on 10/27/2007, -64/+115Uhh, no, it's what YOU associate with a PC.
        • chrisbarr, on 10/28/2007, -11/+7No I think most people do. I have BSOD t-shirt and every single time I wear it I get stopped by someone who tells me they see this all the time, and that they love my shirt.
          • Dantc, on 10/28/2007, -6/+22Haha, what a ***** dork.
          • vincekiessling, on 10/28/2007, -0/+1Yeah I bet, and i guess those people are the only ones you ever get to talk to. I bet you wear that shirt all the time
        • venom1221, on 10/27/2007, -1/+12you own a BSOD t-shirt? lol
          • ScrumFritter, on 10/27/2007, -3/+11And he actually WEARS IT. I'm surprised he doesn't get stopped just so he can be punched in the face.
      • idiotwithastick, on 10/26/2007, -11/+34If by people you mean "the Digg community," then you might be right...
        I think most people are more likely to associate applications like IE, Firefox, or Word with their PCs than the "famous" BSOD...
        • madwelshacre, on 10/26/2007, -13/+27The BSoD isn't an application?
          • Aggaman, on 10/26/2007, -10/+3Dugg up. I salute you and your family.
          • thesmrt12004, on 10/27/2007, -4/+22nope.... its a feature
          • Godlike, on 10/26/2007, -4/+17Correct, it is a feature that tells you what memory addresses and/or modules/libraries/etc were involved in the fault that caused the computer to stop responding.
          • iburl, on 10/26/2007, -10/+2Isn't that cool? Even the crashes have "features" on a PC. You see, then you can begin your investigations and research into the arcane DOS messages on the Blue Screen of Death. Isn't that cool? It's almost like some.... I don't know.... WIZARD, is magically helping you in your quest to use your computer.
          • shawnz, on 10/26/2007, -1/+3read his comment again. he said people are more likely to associate pc applications with PCs than bsods with PCs.
      • chevyorange, on 10/26/2007, -22/+14I actually associate the crappy free display with a PeeCee more than the BSOD. But face it, they do go well together.
        • neodorian, on 10/26/2007, -10/+4Automatically buried for PeeCee (and I thought the link was a pretty funny, if cheap, joke.) Sucks you had so many bad computers over the years but I hate to break it to you, Apple makes Personal Computers as well. With Intel processors. And nVidia GPUs. And all the other stuff that make a "PeeCee". Putting a new OS on it and sticking it in a thin case don't change the fact that they are boutique PCs. Nothing more and nothing less. Good computers they are, but PCs through and through.
          • therightclique, on 10/26/2007, -9/+3apparently you aren't familiar with our evolving language. apples are, as any respectable geek on other side will tell you, most certainly NOT PCs. they ARE personal computers, but they are NOT PCs! you obviously are a small child or some other being that has no concept of anything, so there's probably no need to explain this to you.
          • therightclique, on 10/26/2007, -5/+5also, you suck.
          • ScrumFritter, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2Got to agree with you... PC means Personal Computer, my Mac is a Personal Computer... so yeah, it's a PC. I guess saying you're criticising PCs is easier than saying you're criticising all PCs that run Windows.
          • shawnz, on 10/26/2007, -2/+1therightclique: a PC is anything that can run Windows (not trying to hate, but the torch has really been passed from IBM to Microsoft to define what "pc compatible" means.) So, macs are PCs.
      • wrenchone, on 10/29/2007, -6/+30If that's true, shouldn't there be a game on the screen?
      • posure, on 10/28/2007, -17/+41Its what *Mac* users associate with Windows. The only XP crashes I ever had were caused by either: PSU dying, hard drives dying, or World of Warcraft (damn Blizzard). OS X crashes include: Random kernel panics from too much load, unplugging my USB mouse.
        • ddufour, on 10/26/2007, -8/+19Well the pcs that I have had seemed to crash out of sport. I've been using a mac for about 4 months and it hasn't crashed yet. Even when I unplug my mouse.
          • therightclique, on 10/26/2007, -1/+12dude, i've had many many pcs that went WAY more than 6 months without any kind of crashing or freezing. this is the norm for PCs these days. BSODs are absolutely not the norm. saying anything to the contrary is just fanboy misinformation.
        • arcticblue, on 10/26/2007, -14/+8I've been running OS X for about a year now and never seen a kernel panic. I doubt OS X would crash from too much load. Did you see the video of the guy opening all his apps at once? Windows actually does crash when you do that. I have also never had it crash from unplugging a USB mouse. Either you screwed up your system some how or you are confusing OS X with something else. I have had problems due to Finder freezing up on a failing hard drive, but the new Finder seems to be much better so far.
          • LeeSoong, on 10/26/2007, -4/+16SBBOD

            Spinning Beach Ball Of Death.

            Safari - Dies Constantly on digg

            Firefox > Safari
          • betterth, on 10/26/2007, -4/+10What? Dude, if your windows box crashes from too many programs it's the hardware, not the os. I've run so many programs simultaneously, and mind you - flawlessly, that it's absurd. Ever tried running five instances of WoW on a Mac? Works just fine on a PC.
          • BossKey, on 10/26/2007, -0/+6OS X should not crash due to a load. OS X kernel panics are rarely related to the system being stressed. I never have kernel panics unless there is a hardware-related problem. The OS is exceedingly stable on its own, capable of extremely long uptimes, even when I throw all kinds of production loads at it that push the limits of the CPU and available memory.
            Most kernel panics I've seen have been due to defective RAM chips or logic boards.
        • TheTSArt, on 10/26/2007, -9/+12Random kernel panics from too much load and unplugging your mouse?! Yeah, right.
        • CATSCEO, on 10/26/2007, -4/+13If you're getting random kernel panics then you need to go to a Apple store to see if they'll fix it. Unlike a BSOD, a kernel panic happens when something is wrong.
        • mictester, on 10/29/2007, -9/+2I have a brand-new, OEM-installed Windows XP box here. It crashed within ten minutes of first start-up. It is being returned for one without Windows installed because Windows is "not of merchantable quality".

          Game Over, Microsoft
          • redmaxx, on 10/29/2007, -1/+9You got a bad piece of hardware, nothing more, nothing less.
        • DOGPARTY, on 10/26/2007, -3/+3running osx 5.5years, not a single panic
      • xlent, on 10/26/2007, -0/+4oh is that what subtle is?
    • MagicCake, on 10/27/2007, -36/+17Yeah, it is sort of childish. Stupid too, because if the PC was busted all the time you wouldn't be connecting to it, now would you? I don't get why they feel the need to do stuff like this.
      • zman14321, on 10/28/2007, -13/+4hey don't drag all pcs into this, the linux ones will be working fine. It's just windows.
        • LeeSoong, on 10/26/2007, -3/+2does a linux server show 'tux' the penguin ?
      • rpgmaker, on 10/28/2007, -12/+5Yes, don't drag all PCs, Mac are PCs too, idiot.
        • LordVance, on 10/27/2007, -2/+8Shut up, we all know that in a conversation about macs and "other" pc's when someone says PC they are talking about a windows/linux box.

          Ever seen the "I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC" commercials done by Apple themselves?
          • rpgmaker, on 10/27/2007, -1/+1Yes, I've seen them but in those ads when they're supposedly talking about "PCs" they are talking just about Windows.
            It doesn't matter what those ads want to *make you* to think, a PC is a PC and a Mac is one of them.
        • MagicCake, on 10/27/2007, -2/+8"Hi, I'm a Mac."
          "And I'm a PC."

          Sound familiar? Nah, ***** it. Everyone's just a big ol' idiot, right?
      • MagicCake, on 10/26/2007, -8/+13I see I'm getting dugg down. Look at the picture. It's someone viewing networked computers. Now, pay attention: If the Windows box was down...would it be on the network? That's a hard question, I know. Let me help you. The answer is "no". So why the childish stab at Windows? It's obviously working just fine if it shows up on your network, so...?
        • Volatile, on 10/26/2007, -10/+8Because it's FUNNY, and it's a stab at a joke that will never die. It's Apple's irresistible urge to poke MS with a sharp stick at every chance they get, and I love it. It certainly doesn't make sense today, for the most part, but why not, really? It's still amusing, even if it is a bit childish.
          • Phyltre, on 10/26/2007, -5/+7It's not a joke that will never die--it's a dead horse, and they're flogging it.
          • MagicCake, on 10/26/2007, -5/+6I get that angle, but to me the thing that's missing is the other side. Microsoft doesn't do this. It would be funny if they kind of went back and forth like that, but they don't. You just have the one side making themselves look petty. It just makes the whole smug Mac user stereotype that much worse when even the guys at Apple do it, you know?
      • cwgannon, on 10/26/2007, -2/+6You clearly haven't yet acquainted yourself with "Mac users."
      • Boomer7491, on 10/26/2007, -5/+2They do it just to piss you off and you can't do a thing about it.
        • therightclique, on 10/26/2007, -4/+3the world is doing plenty about it. what is the world doing, you might ask? well, they're not ***** buying apple computers. apple can't afford to be such pricks. they need all the users they can get. this is just one of many ***** moves they pull to pretend to be elite.
        • soopafly, on 10/26/2007, -3/+4"well, they're not ***** buying apple computers"
          Apple's earning reports begs to differ
          • lobbster, on 10/26/2007, -2/+4apple earning reports are also heavly skewd by ipod sales.
    • idiotwithastick, on 10/27/2007, -26/+3If all the "cover-flow" network mode displays is a blue screen for each computer, why even have it? Apple should make it do something more useful.... (maybe it does when showing macs?)
      • KibibyteBrain, on 10/26/2007, -0/+6Macs and Linux servers come up as an Apple studio display with Tiger-like wallpaper.
        • manitoba98xp, on 10/26/2007, -9/+1Leopard-based Macs supposedly even use the correct picture for that model.
          • sugerat, on 10/27/2007, -1/+1Leopard-based Macs supposedly even use the correct picture for that model.
        • manitoba98xp, on 10/26/2007, -0/+8Leopard-based Macs supposedly even use the correct picture for that model.
      • iChainsaw, on 10/26/2007, -1/+2er, just don't use cover flow. there are like 3 other modes...
      • yabos, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2It only does that if it can't connect to the Windows PC. When you put in correct login details you will get a different picture.
    • monsterofNone, on 10/27/2007, -15/+4shill.
    • PabloMac, on 11/01/2007, -61/+137"Pretty childish of Apple, would've been more funny oh 8 years ago."
      Because that's when BSODs stopped occurring?
      • TGMD, on 11/04/2007, -28/+137Yes! That's when they stopped, After XP if you got a BSOD it's because of your hardware.

        I've had kernal panics in OSX and Linux as well, all due to bad hardware.

        The stereotypical PC bluescreening all the time is a thing of Windows 9x, I don't know why it's being brought up all the time

        (Linux fanboy by the way)
        • Me1000, on 10/26/2007, -20/+13no, BSOD in XP was a software problem too,
          I got a BSOD in Vista too (running in a VM)
          • natenovs, on 10/30/2007, -1/+18note. VMs install device drivers. thats how they work.
        • KibibyteBrain, on 10/26/2007, -7/+22I have panics and BSODs due to software, including OS code, on all three of the before mentioned platforms. Come on people this is a subtle joke. Don't try to make too much sense of it. This was in the betas too but I find it amazing it survived release. Just a bit of fun between two competitors. Really I think digg members on both sides of the fence are taking this more personally than the companies involved!
          • therightclique, on 10/26/2007, -1/+6its "aforementioned", not "before mentioned"
          • funkyrenegade, on 10/29/2007, -2/+1What's subtle about it?
            It's a blatant bash at the competition, the same bash at them that has been done many times before, hence it being un-funny now.
        • Firehed, on 10/26/2007, -6/+13Me too. They're far less common than in 98 and earlier, but XP and Vista most definitely CAN blue-screen from software issues. Typically a bad driver, in my experience.
          • MrPig, on 10/26/2007, -1/+19"Bad driver" and "bad hardware" usually go hand-in-hand. If you write a "perfect" driver it should be able to handle any "crap-out" of the hardware - unless it's some critical piece of hardware... then you'd be lucky to even get a BSoD.
        • majormunky, on 10/26/2007, -5/+13Actually, the default setting in XP is to reboot the machine if it is going to give a blue screen. If your machine is rebooting on you for no apparent reason you can turn this off:

          System Properties -> Advanced -> Startup and Recovery -> System Failure -> Uncheck Automatically Restart.

          Thats probably the biggest reason why people don't see blue screens as much anymore.
          • Endemoniada, on 10/26/2007, -1/+7Often, you can still see the screen turn blue the instant before it reboots. Sometimes, you even get enough time to make out what the error message is.
        • victorc26, on 10/26/2007, -0/+10majormunky, and my Vista and XP install have also never rebooted on their own either.

          Think about it. Drivers tie hardware to the OS kernel. Apps like Photoshop don't cause BSoDs. It's impossible.

          The only way an app can cause an OS to BSoD is if it makes the system get hot enough (Because of processor/system load) to cause a system hault/emergency shut down. And that is still a hardware issue.
        • Kelmon, on 10/26/2007, -1/+3I'm not sure what causes the BSoD in XP but I've definitely had enough issues with it in the past (it was one of the main reasons why I switched) and have seen it on various PCs at work (colleagues Core Duo laptop a few weeks ago, for example). However, on the Mac side the kernel panics that I've had have all been traced to bad drivers, such as Logitech's Control Centre software. A lot is made about the Windows BSoD but it's definitely not restricted only to Windows and it seems that a bad driver can bring down any system. The advantage is that usually you can remove them without too much trouble (I'm using a 3rd party driver for my mouse but the OS own drivers are fine).
        • mapkinase, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3Just yesterday I have got my first BSOD on XP ever on my home laptop (3 years old). Too bad I could not save it (I do not have a camera)...
      • wafflez, on 10/26/2007, -12/+14pretty much after ME, blue screens were hardware only problems....so yes.
        • dan537, on 10/26/2007, -14/+13I get them at least once a month on my Sony Vaio which is running Windows XP SP2 fully patched. But who needs evidence when all you really want to do is hate Apple.
          • cwgannon, on 10/26/2007, -5/+15And who needs to learn how to fix a ***** computer rather than generalize from your cute little story about your laptop?
          • LeeSoong, on 10/26/2007, -1/+17Purchasing a Sony VAIO - your first mistake,
            not returning it - your second mistake.

            Hating Apple, still free !
          • kday, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2It doesn't matter if you are fully patched if your hardware/drivers are no good.
        • RAdams, on 10/26/2007, -7/+11How many pictures would you like of non-hardware BSOD's on Windows XP? I provide tech support for a living, and I assure you there are still plenty of BSOD's that are not hardware-related.
          • therightclique, on 10/26/2007, -1/+7*****. you are lying and you know it.
        • RAdams, on 10/26/2007, -14/+4How many pictures would you like of non-hardware BSOD's on Windows XP? I provide tech support for a living, and I assure you there are still plenty of BSOD's that are not hardware-related.
        • fitzsimj, on 10/26/2007, -1/+8I wrote drivers for a living and I can assure you, drivers are a hell of a lot buggier than the OS is. So, if a hardware manufacturer provides a bad driver, do you classify that as 'hardware'?
      • Myonosken, on 10/26/2007, -1/+5I've had ONE BSOD since buying an XP machine in 2004. And that was because my Graphics Card was overclocked WAAAAY too high.
    • DMCer, on 10/26/2007, -25/+2I'm sorry, but you guys are idiots. Number one, THIS ISN'T FROM APPLE HQ, did you really think that? Amazing. Number two, Windows machines don't show up like this, chill the hell out people.
    • Godlike, on 10/27/2007, -13/+36Yeah, you could do the same thing with an apple but it's pretty hard to take an easily recognizable screen shot of a machine thats mouse that has stopped responding to motion input and makes a 'dink' sound every time that you click it, and then never displays an error message at all.
      • unusualFall, on 10/28/2007, -14/+4What in the world are you referring to? In 18 years of using Apple computers I have never encountered the situation that you mention. If you wanted to actually make a somewhat coherent point you might have mentioned the kernel panic screen, but I could probably count on one hand the number of times I've made that screen appear, so I wouldn't count it as recognizable.
      • superkendall, on 10/26/2007, -4/+5I haven't ever seen that problem either (and I have seen a kernel panic on my media Mac mini).
      • xtremesniper, on 10/26/2007, -1/+9If you actually have used a mac, you'd know that it either goes into a kernel panic or it freezes the display, dims it, and displays a message (in a few languages) stating that the computer needs to be shut down immediately (hard shut down).
        • Aggaman, on 10/26/2007, -1/+4I only discovered that this morning. Back when I had the one before this one, it just filled the screen with garbage text. It's so much more polite and slick now....
      • neodorian, on 10/26/2007, -0/+7Just show a pinwheel that never goes away.
        • Kelmon, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2Pinwheel? I thought it was called the Spinning Beach Ball of Death? Well, that's what I call it at least. Sounds cooler although it's still damned annoying - I must get around to buying some more RAM...
    • Soave, on 10/28/2007, -16/+11Apple needs to focus more on showing off their own products rather than trying to make the competition look bad.
      • LeeSoong, on 10/26/2007, -9/+3lol,
        just look at the MAC price tag - then multiply that by the number of PCs in your office...

        Ready to drop a few million $$$ ?
    • PricklySponge, on 10/29/2007, -24/+19I agree. Typical smug mac *****.
    • deadbaby, on 11/01/2007, -13/+42Sure it's childish. What's wrong with that? It's funny. I don't know why Windows users take it so personally.
      • victorc26, on 10/26/2007, -2/+13Because we've heard this for close to a decade now. Seriously, I say it's enough.
        • gwhardyiv, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Yeah you guys. Enough is enough. Stop making fun of my favorite operating system. You're so immature. [/whining 12 year old dork]
        • lilaliend, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2and we don't hear the same BS arguements against apple over and over and over again? "You can't get games with apple." "Apples too expensive." Atleast we made accurate and justified points.
      • therightclique, on 10/28/2007, -2/+8its just inaccurate and mean. and pc users WANT to like apple, but apple makes this impossible.
        • soopafly, on 10/26/2007, -4/+3What is this, high school? If you want to use a Mac, go ahead.
      • virtualball, on 10/28/2007, -1/+1What's wrong with being childish? Just because you're thirty doesn't mean you can't enjoy a joke and just because you're 30 doesn't mean you have to stop liking kid things...
    • aristotle0dude, on 10/27/2007, -11/+13Actually what's childish is that you cannot just see the humour in it and roll with it. Maturity has nothing to do with having a lack of humour in your life.
    • lilaliend, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Jealous.
  • stalefries, on 10/29/2007, -20/+109Gotta love the attention to detail.
    On a different note, that David Perek guy has a lot of stuff in his menubar.
  • puelocesar, on 11/04/2007, -39/+13hahaha I'll definitely install Leopard just because of this! (oh well, the new Terminal.app is another must have)
  • bradallen18, on 11/01/2007, -24/+291this has been in all the betas too. and was posted along time ago.
    • colincornaby, on 10/26/2007, -1/+11And I'm not sure why the poster thinks that icon is just used in Coverflow mode. It's the icon for any PC server across the entire OS.
    • marvinmatthew, on 10/26/2007, -3/+3I think that it is somewhat surprising/interesting though that it was left in the RTM build.

      Perhaps that makes this still noteworthy.
  • KingLeo, on 10/27/2007, -28/+68That's funny. The launch of Leopard is one of the most anticipated events it seems. You gotta give props to Apple for developing such customer loyalty (and fanboyism) that no other company has been able to accomplish (except one other I can think of).
    • richardhenry, on 10/26/2007, -1/+13... Which is?
    • BlueStarr, on 10/26/2007, -18/+7Why crack addicts of course.
    • pintomp3, on 10/27/2007, -4/+25blackwater?
    • Buelldozer, on 10/28/2007, -16/+4Whatever, you just keep believing that. When Windows 85 was launched people were lined up by the millions all over the country, at midnight, to buy it. More than a few of them didn't even own a computer!

      The leopard release is nowhere near that big. Not even close.

      No I'm not an MS fanboy. I'm just relaying some historical perspective.
      • andy78, on 10/27/2007, -0/+14windows 85? people where lined up at midnight for 10 years?
      • zeejay, on 10/28/2007, -2/+5Wow - has it been 12 whole years since people were actually enthused about Windows?
      • BobOki, on 10/28/2007, -0/+2I remember that..... windows 98. Good thing I had my copy more than a month in advance..... being a MS beta tester had its perks..... too bad they did not listen to any of the beta testers feedback (see Win ME)
    • ronaldpoi, on 10/26/2007, -5/+3Google
    • Zi0n, on 10/26/2007, -2/+3I've heard that the only other company that has a brand loyalty close to Apple's is Harley Davidson...
    • wilhel1812, on 10/26/2007, -1/+2that's why apple rules!
  • aarongzmn, on 10/27/2007, -36/+14HAHAHA!!!! ROFL!!! OK, not that funny, but it is funny.
  • skyzophrenyk, on 10/29/2007, -64/+18wow... not at all funny.. buried for extreme fanboyery
    • BlueStarr, on 10/27/2007, -19/+8aawwww...whats the matter? baby wants his bottle?
  • thedarkrabbit, on 10/29/2007, -47/+4I don't get it.
  • elvenseven, on 10/29/2007, -78/+11Wow what an ugly UI. I'll stick with my $50 2GB RAM resource muncher Vista.
    • marvinmatthew, on 10/29/2007, -1/+4Where did you get Vista for $50?
    • schroeder, on 10/29/2007, -0/+3Typo, he missed the second "0". Seriously ~$500 (w/tax) for full functionality of an operating system... I wouldn't brag about being a sucker.
  • helliottlaw, on 10/27/2007, -62/+12apple once again you have demonstrated that you are chalk full of aids
    • ManInTheBunker, on 10/26/2007, -2/+10chalk full?
    • DOGPARTY, on 10/26/2007, -2/+1haha ***** idiot, chalk full?

      your like one of this people who think anything is pronounced "anythink" and probably write it that way too
      • mhuggins, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3You misspelled "you're".
        • IllBeBack, on 11/09/2007, -2/+1No, it is not misspelled. "Your" is a word. It's just the wrong word. Big difference.
    • patch6, on 10/28/2007, -0/+2A chalk full of aids would be a completely unexpected murder weapon.
  • over90000, on 10/28/2007, -70/+54Pot shots like these just make me hate Apple more. I am sure OSX has NEVER EVER crashed. If MS did something like this on windows everyone here would be saying "buried for lame". Also kinda lonely in that network aren't we?
    • idiotwithastick, on 10/26/2007, -8/+12Unless if this feature does more than the screenshot shows, it is about as useful as Flip3D.

      And it is true that OSX crashes less than Windows, on the other hand it also has to handle less configurations of hardware and everything associated with it (though that doesn't make the user experience any better; a crash is a crash).
      • natenovs, on 10/26/2007, -3/+7um flip3d shows a live thumbnail of a program. just like expose. this has nothing to do with it. do you even know what youre talking about?
        • idiotwithastick, on 10/27/2007, -6/+2Yes, I do. Look at the screenshot. What benefit does it add to the user interface that icons don't? The computer screens aren't displaying anything useful... icons would easily be as fitting as coverflow mode for this, just like the standard alt+tab is more useful than flip3d nearly all the time.
          • crazybrit, on 10/27/2007, -0/+1Hey nice username. With CoverFlow the previews are actually big enough to be useful. It's the same idea, but it works so much better. Like most of Apple's stuff.
        • crazybrit, on 10/27/2007, -3/+5They display live previews of some files, stupid.
        • pierrefilms, on 10/27/2007, -1/+5Its useful because it also works with document icons and it allows you to preview all the pages/slides/charts/etc without opening them up. Watch the Coverflow demo on the Leopard page on Apple.com.
        • MarkusGarvey, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1i have never used Flip3D but the point of the comment is "it is true that OSX crashes less than Windows, on the other hand it also has to handle less configurations of hardware and everything associated with it (though that doesn't make the user experience any better; a crash is a crash)."...............
      • antitab, on 10/26/2007, -3/+1"Unless if this feature does more than the screenshot shows, it is about as useful as Flip3D."
        Coverflow displays files on a reflective black canvas, yes. Live previews with content files, icons with apps and things like this. It also allows one to flip through pages of a PDF or slideshow, and play movies directly within the preview. It is incredibly useful for browsing image folders.
        • LeeSoong, on 10/26/2007, -3/+1until you have more than 300 files - not very useful for anyone who actually -uses- their computer.

          Demo's real nice. but using it day-by-day is a pain.

          One Cool Trick :
          1. Windows Vista + iTunes, Safari, and Live Preview.

          From the next revision of iTunes, you can browse your files, documents, music, pictures, video - every file you have - right in iTunes and using Live Preview.

          Once you boot in Windows and iTunes - you never use the Windows Interface again,
          you can spend almost 100% of your time in Apple software, on your Vista computer.

          Apple Trojan horse - first the music, then the videos, then your files, then everything, and finally the O.S. - killing off microsoft one application at a time...
          • therightclique, on 10/28/2007, -1/+3if only apple made ANYTHING that worked as well as what Microsoft makes (not talking about prettiness, which they obviously win on)..... only then would anything you said be valid.
    • astrosmash, on 10/26/2007, -10/+13Boo hoo. Poor Microsoft.

      People taking pot shots at MS makes you mad, huh? Who the hell is not brutally familiar with Win9x BSOD?
      • BlackAle, on 10/26/2007, -6/+19At the time of Win9x, Apple had OS9 ...look how much that crashed.

        Typical Apple misplaced snobbery as usual. RDF at work.
    • dcsr, on 10/28/2007, -9/+10Hmmm..... Last time I checked, you can't crash less than 0 times.
      For me: Vista since official launch - 0 crashes
      • Firehed, on 10/26/2007, -8/+8Really? I've had at least a dozen. And no, it's not the hardware.
        • therightclique, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3well, it's either the hardware or the user. you pick.
      • MarkusGarvey, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2me too.............usually to all the crap the manufactures. load in there..
    • danasghar, on 10/26/2007, -7/+7Im on year two since i converted from MS over90000. Ive got three Macs and ill let you know the first time they do........still waiting. Oh yah ill let you know the day i go out and buy antivirus and spyware software as well....stillllllll waiting
      • Firehed, on 10/26/2007, -1/+9Lucky you. My old MBP used to kernel panic fairly often (as far as Macs go, which isn't very) before I got Applecare to outright replace the thing. Stop spreading the ***** that Macs never crash. They do. It's just a lot rarer.
      • phej, on 10/27/2007, -2/+3Yea, I haven't bought antivirus or spyware software either. I just know how to use my computer to not allow it to be infected.
        • therightclique, on 10/27/2007, -1/+3like ANY good geek...... nobody i know that uses windows has anti virus software... and they're all techs.... and none of them EVER get viruses. or crashes or blue screen. its all hogwash. your computer only breaks if you treat it like *****.
          • DaffyDuck, on 10/27/2007, -1/+2It depends on what software you are using. My WinXP machine at work rarely crashes but it does happen. I'd say once or twice a month on average. Usually Pro/E or nvidia video drivers are involved. Sometimes instead of blue screens, the systems just starts acting really weird and I have to restart to get things back to normal. People that never have problems like this in XP are probably using a smaller subset of software. I have to use Pro/E and need the nvidia drivers because they add useful features to my dual screen setup.
    • spidoman, on 10/26/2007, -1/+4Individual programs crash less for me on my macbook than programs on windows, however, Individual program crashes also tend to lead to full system crashes more in OS X than in XP I've noticed.

      But I do love my macbook.
      • Kypt, on 10/26/2007, -2/+1Yes, and I do not really understand why that is. On windows ctrl alt del will let me exit evil program, on mac such thing doesn't work all the time due to the spinball of death. Given, doesn't happen often but enough to know that its not "greener" all the time, just different. Either way i like OSX more than windows but it isn't because of the staibility
    • d3dm, on 10/28/2007, -13/+11Yeah, real funny Apple. How many iPods do you think you would have sold if iTunes only ran on Macs?

      Face the facts fanboys, if Windows was the blue-screening POS that you make it out to be, your precious little music player would be in Zune-ville. The overwhelming success of your favorite company over the last few years is because Windows users can load music on their iPods through iTunes.
      • therightclique, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1its funny how very few people notice this.
      • soopafly, on 10/28/2007, -2/+1Hang on buddy....the Waaaaaahmbulance is on its way
    • dimplemonkey, on 10/26/2007, -6/+5As a matter of fact, my Mac has never crashed since the first version.
    • rebz, on 10/26/2007, -1/+4my powerbook has crashed probably 5 times.

      in the past four years
    • mistafreeze, on 10/28/2007, -3/+4If MS was going to do it, it would have to be the "Grey screen of death"

      Sadly, I experience this on OS X about as much as I experience bsod on vista.

      Encoding video's usually gets my os x to crash (visual hub), while running Itunes or quicktime, is the main reason vista crashes.
    • DaffyDuck, on 10/28/2007, -7/+1"Pot shots like these just make me hate Apple more."

      You should have died of a heart attack by now then. You've been at a heart attack inducing level of Apple hatred for a while now.
    • Braxo, on 10/28/2007, -3/+4My Apple notebook has not been restarted in 32 days 7 hours and 13 minutes. Without a crash, and the last time I restarted was when I installed updates.

      Come to our side. Come
      • therightclique, on 10/26/2007, -2/+3um. i let my XP PC run EVERY SINGLE DAY FOR MONTHS AND MONTHS AND MONTHS and it never ever crashes. stop spreading misinformation.
      • Spuy767, on 10/28/2007, -0/+1*****, my friend Shaw has a laptop that we don't want to install tiger or leopard on because we don't want it to perform slowly and it hasn't be restarted in well over a year.
    • tesuji05, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1I have used mac for 4 odd years. I don't even know what the Mac OSX blue screen equivalent looks like.

      Whatever it looks like, I'm sure it's extremely creative and user-friendly.
  • j1a1g1, on 10/28/2007, -34/+6Oh the Irony!
  • DblTap, on 10/26/2007, -37/+5Apple presents the new ICrash
  • bruce42, on 11/01/2007, -86/+103is it just me ... or is that the dumbest thing ever ....
    why do i need coverflow to move through a list of servers.... when all the images are the same?
    seems pointless to me.
    • drlha, on 10/26/2007, -7/+98Would you rather they disable Coverflow for just servers? Would that make you happy? Sure Coverflow makes sense for some things, and doesn't for others - that's why its a viewing *option*.
      • JohnFrum, on 11/01/2007, -15/+6True, but it is an interesting reminder of how the iPod mindset has taken over Apple.
        • DaffyDuck, on 11/01/2007, -4/+11Coverflow made it's first appearance in iTunes and it's second appearance on the iPhone. Not sure why you are bringing the iPod into this.
    • DarkDx, on 10/26/2007, -2/+21That isn't stopping you from using it in images folders.
    • astrosmash, on 10/28/2007, -17/+13> why do i need coverflow to move through a list of servers....
      > when all the images are the same?
      > seems pointless to me.

      That's why it's an easter egg. Thanks for coming out.
      • bitspace, on 10/28/2007, -2/+4Coverflow view of the network isn't an easter egg. The "easter egg" the article refers to is the image displayed for windows boxen on the network. I wouldn't really call that an easter egg either, though.
        • superkendall, on 10/28/2007, -3/+3Which you only see when usign a mode that normally makes no sense browsing servers, thus the reason it's an easter egg.

    • civdis24, on 10/26/2007, -2/+8Cover flow is a viewing *OPTION* in Finder. It is there for anything you look at in Finder, be it computers on the network or files on your hard drive. Furthermore, I believe they used the coverflow option in this instance to show the particular icon because in coverflow, the image is larger.
    • spooker, on 10/26/2007, -2/+3for graphics professionals, of which there are a lot of on the Mac platform, this is very useful. using something like Bridge is slow and not as useful. and as noted above, it's an option. it's too bad you couldn't have thought of anyone else's needs before posting a retarded comment.
      • DaffyDuck, on 10/26/2007, -2/+1Coerflow cannot replace Bridge. If you need something faster, use iPhoto, not Coverflow.
    • sumdog, on 10/27/2007, -1/+5They could have done something useful with that coverflow. For servers it could have put the Win OS version, and give a preview of the shares. The blue screen is funny, but yes childish. They should have done something useful here.
  • ufia, on 10/28/2007, -68/+35Linux = We are open source
    Microsoft = We are noob-friendly
    Apple = We are ***** always talking smack about PCs
    • Syphon8, on 10/26/2007, -16/+2This.
    • astrosmash, on 10/28/2007, -9/+2Will someone please think of the PCs?
    • schroeder, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1Windows isn't any more noob-friendly than OSX. Most people are just used to windows already. I know people who have used Windows for years and don't know how to do almost anything outside of their apps. It's all about what you learn on.
  • iamalba, on 10/26/2007, -27/+8muhaha, nice!


    Keep up the good work Apple (in your face, M$!)
  • evilic0n, on 11/01/2007, -49/+88Easter egg? I thought that was a real screenshot of a windows computer.
    • Petrushka72, on 10/26/2007, -6/+6While still laughing at your joke, I might as well point out: notice the all-but-trademark light-coloured Apple swirl on the top-left part of the screen, and the 3D shading towards the lower right. *sigh* Trust Apple to make a BSOD look stylish.
  • camaroz06, on 10/30/2007, -77/+128I have NEVER come across a BSOD unless it was to my own doing (overclocked CPU too much). Honesty I have wasted more of my time looking at the friggin mac pinwheel of death to stop spinning on my girlfriends iBook, damn that thing slowed down my productivity by 25%.
    • camaroz06, on 10/28/2007, -22/+31cannot believe I am getting dugg down for sharing my experiences between the two operating systems. I am just saying

      my time waiting for pinwheel to stop spinning > my time rebooting form a self induced BSOD
      • Firehed, on 10/26/2007, -7/+14You said something against Macs. That's not allowed around here - you should know better.

        But yeah, that pinwheel/beachball/marble is a thing of evil. No better or worse than the full-cursor hourglass in Windows, although it likes to pop its colorful face in a bit more often. /griping from a Mac
      • rykachik, on 10/26/2007, -9/+3if(spinning beach ball != BSOD) {
        diggs--;
        }
        • natenovs, on 10/26/2007, -2/+5if (yourPost.Contains(annoying_bracket_style))
          {
          diggs--;
          }
        • soopafly, on 10/28/2007, -0/+4Me: Hey look guys, two nerds arguing!!!!
          You guys: Oooooooooo...Aaaaaaaaaaah
      • saggygrandma, on 10/26/2007, -8/+2camaroz you obviously have had little experience with computers, or have failed to notice the BSOD flash up before your PC has shat itself before.
      • dagaz, on 10/26/2007, -3/+3The spinning beachball is usually only for that one application (unless there is a severe memory leak and your computer is paging heaps of memory to disk) whereas a BSOD takes out your whole computer. Next time you have a spinning beachball on a Mac simply switch to a different app.
    • time4evacuation, on 10/28/2007, -26/+3Buried for being full of *****.
    • opiniastrous, on 10/27/2007, -4/+16True. I have a Macbook Pro, and I love it more than anything else I own, but the applications unexpectedly close more than on my ol' PC, and that beachball of death is a pain in the arse!
      • Aggaman, on 10/26/2007, -1/+2Tried more RAM? Maxing out the RAM usually gets rid of the beachball. It has on all my macs.
        • opiniastrous, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Yeah, I plan to, but I also get it when the applications stall. That's what I was referring to really.
      • fugazied, on 10/26/2007, -1/+3I only get wheel of death on a few apps. mainly Firefox, which is coincidentally the only app that I have ever seen crash on my macbook pro. Fix Firefox 3 please.
    • dcsr, on 10/27/2007, -7/+9sounds like there are a lot of Apple fanboys on the thread today
    • heynoop, on 10/28/2007, -1/+23haha, that magical pinwheel was spinning right when i dugg you up. it knows.......
    • gdehms, on 10/26/2007, -5/+3Completely agree with you
    • KibibyteBrain, on 10/26/2007, -4/+3I've rarely gotten BSODs since XP SP1 and especially in SP2, but I got them in Vista every week or so when I was playing with that. And its pretty hard not to get a panic in any OS ever if you use complex software packages for several hours a day.
      • bitspace, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2Well... everybody's experiences are different. I'm a Mac user now, and I've never crashed it in the 20 months I've had it, but I do enjoy the occasional spinning beachball. However, in my previous 13 years using linux as my primary desktop OS, it crashed exactly once, and that was a hardware issue.
      • valkyries, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2the only time ive gotten a bsod on vista was when i installed itunes. every time i tryed to import music it would bluesreen the computer and the system would crash
        • natenovs, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2haha. the only time ive gotten it is trying to view a viedo in itunes. because of how ***** itunes is in windows, im not buying another ipod again.
      • deadbaby, on 10/26/2007, -2/+1I get BSOD's now and again on Windows. The situation has been a lot better since they moved everyone to the NT kernel but it definitely still happens. The point of this joke is really that the BSOD is a symbol for all the various problems you run into on Windows. It's not meant to be take literally. It is a joke, after all.
      • Kelmon, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1I'd just like to note that I don't get kernel panics unless I install a bad driver. I damed well don't expect my OS to crash if I simply use a demanding application and I would not accept that. It's a bad user experience if your application crashes and it can be justified by "it was that time of the day" statement.
    • drunkwally, on 10/26/2007, -6/+4Lies. camaroz is just making this stuff up. Digger's don't have girlfriends and imaginary ones don't have macbooks - buried.
      • SoundScape, on 10/26/2007, -1/+1You getting dugg down tells me the diggers have no sense of humor today.
    • noisymime, on 10/26/2007, -3/+7That's because its an iBook... No offense, but its not exactly the latest technology
      • DesertFlyer, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1You're right. It's not the latest and greatest so you are going to have problems.

        Please...
    • keyo, on 10/26/2007, -2/+2My mothers MacBook always gets the beachball *****, she asks me to fix it. ?!
    • SoundScape, on 10/28/2007, -2/+3@camaroz06

      You've obviously never used a version of Windows prior to Windows 2000. BSOD's were a thing of frequency in 3.1, 95, 98 and NT.
      • neodorian, on 10/27/2007, -1/+4Luckily they fixed it like 5 years ago.
    • DarkSideofMoon, on 10/28/2007, -1/+4Totally agree with you man! I'm probably the biggest Mac geek in my circle of friends, and I get tons of more freezes with OS X than a solid copy of Windows XP. We'll see how Leopard fares out in terms of beach-ballin'...
    • BobOki, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1You could not PAY (no really) me to use anything below OS X 10.4. I hated OS9 and below with such a passion that I had a WORKING mac turned into a fish tank back in the day.
      Now, with OS X 10.4.x and above, I have PURCHASED a iMac 24" and already PURCHASED the new Leopard. It has been a long time since I used a OS that "just works" (last was Banyan Vines) and I have had one lockup and one crash (crash was my fault) since I got it, its been one year.
  • ispeakasian, on 10/26/2007, -13/+1can anyone say irony? i love the new UI. the navigation thing is a big improvement over the version im running (10.4.10, dunno if its tiger or w/e). it looks a lot like itunes...
    • drlha, on 10/26/2007, -8/+2WTF is "w/e"?
    • x0nIMIn0x, on 10/26/2007, -0/+4I can say irony, I just can't see it.
    • 5of0, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1Must...resist...
      AAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!! FLYING RAGE!!!!!
      There IS no irony in this! Where the heck do you purport to see irony? You can't just say irony because it's funny. They're not the same. A firefighter dying in a fire is irony. A crooked locksmith being finally caught by a lock he couldn't pick is irony. Apple putting BSODs on cover flow is NOT irony. It's funny, but it's not close to irony. Now, if your mac crashed *while* viewing the Windows network locations (BSODs and all), *that* would be some choice irony. This is not. Look it up, and eduate yourself. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Irony
  • jolt459, on 11/01/2007, -29/+73Haha. Have to love Apples subtle humor...

    Even know I do not own a Mac, I find this funny.
    • astrosmash, on 10/26/2007, -14/+28Who wouldn't find it funny? (Besides sensitive Microsofties. Their feelings are hurt, constantly.)
      • gdehms, on 10/26/2007, -6/+14I have a Mac.. and a PC.. and a linux computer.. and I really don't see how it is funny. It is one of the more played out Windows stereotypes.
        • astrosmash, on 10/26/2007, -11/+2You obviously haven't been around very long.
        • Aggaman, on 10/26/2007, -1/+8It would be funnier if the icon for a broken iPod was a brown Zune.
    • ifm1989, on 10/28/2007, -0/+36Subtle? Right...
      • Phyltre, on 10/28/2007, -0/+10How "Haha, Bluescreen amirite guys?!" translates into "subtle" under any circumstances is beyond me.
    • BobOki, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Well, you should get one of the OSX86 builds and load it on your windows box, and get a taste of just what has created "fanboys". See how long after using a hacked cheezy version it takes you to want to buy the real thing.
  • NiGHTSChao, on 10/26/2007, -30/+11stupid, Apple just loves to show their ego, don't they
    (and before anyone buries me because they think I'm in love with Microsoft, I hate a lot of things about them)
    • drlha, on 10/26/2007, -9/+6No, I'm burying you because you're getting angry about something that is pretty silly. Its a sly dig at MS, I'm sure MS people are laughing about it. Why can't you?
      • opiniastrous, on 10/31/2007, -3/+5I doubt they are laughing really.
      • BlackAle, on 10/31/2007, -4/+7You'd think Apple would of grown up by now.
        • 5of0, on 11/06/2007, -0/+1I still don't understand why grown-ups can't have fun. Steve Jobs seems to have a lot of fun.
  • bruce42, on 10/26/2007, -26/+18BTW, this is not smart clever or funny, its dumb ...
    apples jab at MS in the past was funny when they had the small icon of the BSOD ...

    and i'm not a windows fanboy, i gave it up for linux
  • thesoze, on 10/26/2007, -20/+9is that what happens when u run win on an Apple?
    • nanonomic, on 10/26/2007, -4/+3nope, you use bootcamp and it runs fine but putting windows on a mac defeats the whole purpose.......
    • DMCer, on 10/26/2007, -5/+5It's what happens when you run Windows, period.
  • carl25, on 10/26/2007, -27/+14that's one ***** sense of "humor"

    i should boot vista and put the beachball as my background and call myself a comedian
  • DarkDx, on 11/01/2007, -5/+30Hey, very nice shine in the screen!
    Oh wait...
  • nanonomic, on 10/26/2007, -17/+2wow thats really awsome......btw Nightschao OSX is much better, unless you like getting that blue screen every other day....maybe apple should just switch all windows logos to that, it woulb be pretty funny but micro$oft would sue
  • Floris, on 10/29/2007, -16/+4Old news, buried for dupe.
  • missingnoh4x, on 10/26/2007, -26/+21This would've been funny if it didn't feel like an extension of those oh-so-irritating "I'm a PC" ads. And if it came from someone other than Apple.
  • err404, on 10/26/2007, -29/+24I love my Apple machines and plan to install Leopard tomorrow, but if this is default behavior, it is embarrassing to any professional/adult user.
    • Francky, on 10/26/2007, -3/+4That's the first thing I thought too... well OK, second thing, after laughing and sending it to a friend. I run a business. Most of my machines are PCs. Only my main machine is a MAC (for editing and stuff). This would not reassure a client if I was browsing the network and he saw all my other machines as crashing, Hehehe.
  • bigfkncee, on 10/26/2007, -27/+20that was ***** dumb.....apple needs to grow the ***** up.
  • macinit1138, on 10/26/2007, -27/+18Microsoft might run the desktop world, but at the end of the day we all know that they make uninspiring and overly convoluted operating systems, leaving Apple's view of a Windows OS quite well deserved. I enjoy any act by Apple that pisses microsoft fanboys off. Apple your ego is rightfully deserved, keep up the good work!
    • jkarhu24, on 10/26/2007, -2/+3I wasn't aware there were Microsoft fanboys. Microsoft is the default operating system for over 90% of PC's. A lot of people can't afford Apple hardware, while others don't see the need to spend twice to three times the price for similar hardware. It's not that people "hate" Apple, it's that their proprietary hardware/software combo is prohibitively priced for low budget PC users, offers virtually no games for high budget gamers, and has a lot less freeware/readily pirated program offerings online. Don't get me wrong, I love Mac's. However, XP and Vista are both incredibly stable operating systems, and for anyone with bittorent, cost nothing. Also, you can get a good Dell box off ebay for around $250.
  • ocellnuri, on 10/28/2007, -15/+62I'll have to update my iMac icon so it has a Kernel Panic on the screen... to be fair.
    • astrosmash, on 10/27/2007, -3/+16No, the little bomb icon. That would be cute.
      • aylwin, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1*flinch* No... no, not the bomb icon, no!!!

        - a traumatized long-time mac user
        • virtualball, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Or the bomb window with a ">" sign and nothing else. That was the worst! You couldn't type (most of the time) and the entire computer freezes up.

          /me has used Macs since OS 7 :)
    • Zippo, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4You know, I've used a few different Macs - school, work, and now my own Macbook Pro... and in four years I've yet to see a Kernel Panic.
      Now, for the brief stint last year that I was using OS 9 last year... I saw *plenty* of bombs... Ugh, do I ever hate OS 9.
    • DoctorLex, on 12/06/2007, -0/+1I think I have gotten no more than 5 kernel panics since I installed the OS X beta. I even took a photo of the first kernel panic because I had never seen anything like it.
      That being said, I had this fifth kernel panic within the 24 hours after installing Leopard, and I had to reboot just an hour ago because every application I tried to launch crashed. This is by far the most flaky OS X release ever.
  • bigjimslade, on 11/01/2007, -21/+39Maybe they can educate us Windows users who haven't seen one of those in years? Imagine if Windows would show a new iMac that was frozen...Oh, they wouldn't do that.

    Before you say anything, I'm buying a Mac this week. It's crap like this that makes me thing I'm being conned by childish marketing.
    • bitspace, on 10/26/2007, -14/+3I honestly don't think there are many WIndows users that haven't seen this in years. Sure, there are some, but I see it almost every day on some windows box or another.
      • DesertFlyer, on 10/26/2007, -0/+10I think you're doing something wrong then.
        • lobbster, on 10/26/2007, -3/+2yep, bitspace is a huge noob

          ***** u apple
        • Lanlost, on 10/26/2007, -1/+0No ones gonna stop us.... NOT TONIGHT!!!!!!111
    • frsrblch, on 10/26/2007, -3/+6I actually don't think I have. I'm really not sure what people do to their computers that causes them so much trouble, because I certainly aren't having any. Windows and Linux both run fine.
    • iburl, on 10/26/2007, -8/+7Come back in a month and see how you feel. One of Us. One of Us.
  • darkane, on 10/27/2007, -33/+36Don't act like Apple's OS never had any problems. The Windows blue screen at least offered somewhat helpful information to the user. Back when Apples crashed every time you went to a website, all you got was a completely frozen screen and an ulcer.
    • iburl, on 10/26/2007, -12/+1Isn't that cool? Even the crashes have "features" on a PC. You see, then you can begin your investigations and research into the arcane DOS messages on the Blue Screen of Death. Isn't that cool? It's almost like some.... I don't know.... WIZARD, is magically helping you in your quest to use your computer.
    • galliva, on 10/27/2007, -6/+3Can you please tell us what means HELPFUL for you?

      Anyway, maybe you can help me! That's my error message: "A fatal exception 0E has occurred at F0AD:42494C4C"... wow, that's HELPFUL! :D
    • LJRod82, on 10/27/2007, -1/+2Still more helpful than that ***** useless Mac icon with a sad face. Gee, my Mac is sad. I wonder how I can make it :-) happy again. Maybe I should sing it a song. A happy song. YAY!
      • LJRod82, on 10/28/2007, -0/+2Good joke though. I got a chuckle out of it. I like Macs for sound editing mostly and if I were to ever buy one I would be a tad embarassed doing so with Mac's superiority complex that blatantly shows through their marketing. The whole Mac vs. PC is lame. They're preferences. If you like PC, get a PC. If you like Mac, get a Mac. One isn't better than the other although their are many who think otherwise. One simply fits their respective user better than the other. Sheesh.
    • DoctorLex, on 12/06/2007, -0/+1I have been working with computers since I was a kid and still I couldn't make up anything useful from any of the many blue screen error messages I've seen. For 99% of all users, an error message saying the computer has crashed and needs a reboot it, is both more useful and less intimidating than a bunch of programmer jargon and hex codes.
  • LoganT, on 11/01/2007, -41/+174Oh shut the ***** up and get a sense of humor.
    • Shenanigans, on 10/27/2007, -8/+13It's not funny anymore when it's 10 years old. Though Microsoft is a larger company, Microsoft users are treated like crap. It's easy to not find this funny after being disrespected on Digg and had this old joke thrown in our faces for a decade.
      • superspud, on 10/26/2007, -7/+3Waaaaaaa :'(
      • arjie, on 10/26/2007, -2/+3I can understand if you're a Windows developer, but seriously. It's just an Operating System, not your sexual preference. True though, Windows XP is rather stable on the one computer I have it on. It's not everyone else's fault that Microsoft treats its users like crap though.

        I'm really sorry, but I'm going to have to say this, it's a chance of a lifetime: "I call Shenanigans!"
      • fucayama, on 10/26/2007, -1/+2The problem is it's often Microsoft treating there customers like crap.
        $100+ to upgrade to a feature limited OS
        Deactivating users systems because THERE wga servers crashed...
  • najdorf, on 10/26/2007, -15/+4Who tells you this is real... could very easily be a custom icon. I dont trust the internet anymore :/
    • GilliamOS, on 10/26/2007, -2/+1Because I've seen myself in beta and it's been posted before.
    • rebz, on 10/26/2007, -3/+1someone sent you to 2girls1cup huh?
    • rebz, on 10/26/2007, -3/+1dammit, had a seizure clicking the comment button
    • najdorf, on 10/26/2007, -4/+2I know Steve Jobs and he told me it's fake.
  • astrosmash, on 10/26/2007, -32/+25Cue the sensitive Microsofties, who will be here any minute to register their disgust throughout digg.
    • daizaru, on 10/26/2007, -5/+18comments like that make you instantly come across as a snob. Why can't people be impartial... can you try to scream "I think I'm better then you" any louder?
      • astrosmash, on 10/26/2007, -9/+5How the hell do you come up with "snob"?

        I've been a Windows user since '91, and Windows developer since '97, a linux user since '99, and a OS X user since '04. A lot of things have changed over the last 10 years, but one thing that has remained that same is the Microsofties. The lesser-techies always seem to latch on to that culture, which includes dismissing anything not created by Microsoft, and an obsessive hatred of all things Apple. Making fun of those idiots is hardly snobbery.
        • arcticblue, on 10/26/2007, -2/+3I know what you mean. When I was in the military, I had a SSgt who was obsessed with Windows. Absolutely refused to acknowledge that there were alternatives and in some cases. I got my Mac and he showed a slight interest in it. He used it for about 5 seconds and was disgusted by it's one mouse button. Didn't want to even try to use it after he realized that despite the fact the the UI is designed around 1 mouse button. He hates Linux too, but he spent alot of time on my laptop playing glTron.
    • Memitim, on 10/26/2007, -0/+4There's just something incredibly ironic about bitching about virulent Windows fanboys in a Mac thread. I just think it sucks when the operating system has become such a pervasive part of the computing environment. Why can't these damned development houses focus on making an operating system streamlined to, I don't know, operate applications? They keep trying to build these all-in-one ***** instead of just building a solid, streamlined platform for developing and running the crap that people really care about using.
  • heynoop, on 10/26/2007, -12/+34wow! i have totally never seen this on digg before. nope not ever. never seen it this is totally new and original go digg yay
    • rosswaycaster, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3yeah this is a rare occasion, this will be posted again in like 2 days...
  • arcticblue, on 10/28/2007, -19/+60I thought this was pretty funny myself, but checking out the comments here tells me alot of people are overly butt-hurt about it. Where did everyone's sense of humor go?

    Some people just can't take a joke.
    • astrosmash, on 10/26/2007, -9/+14Apparently it's tough to be a Microsoft fan these days. Poor guys.
    • rosswaycaster, on 10/26/2007, -4/+3Amen! Nuf Said!
      • da_bradler, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1I know eh, there freaking right out, there like "That never happend! windows never crashes, I used a mac once at my friends out it was all spinning wheel and froze... YA! take that you big jerks" +100 diggs
  • avihappy, on 10/28/2007, -5/+73Even Halo (by Bungie, owned by MS while making these games) has had a BSOD hidden somewhere:
    http://z-studios.com/blog/2007/09/25/halo-3-bsod/ Halo 3
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/14120251@N04/14367045 ... Halo 2
    • Firehed, on 10/26/2007, -2/+3Pretty much every game ever made that had a computer in it had it showing a BSOD.
    • arcticblue, on 10/26/2007, -4/+5Oh, ouch. I would consider the Halo games first-party since Microsoft owned Bungie at the time the games were made. MS can poke fun at themselves, but god forbid someone else does.

      "Why does MS have to act so childish? My Windows XP with all of it's service packs and patches doesn't EVER get a blue screen! This is so childish!"
    • avihappy, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2Also, MS has a BSOD screensaver on their site: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/Util ...
      • Xolotl2, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1That was created by Mark Russinovich years ago, Sysinternals only was recently bought by Microsoft.
  • lkv87, on 10/27/2007, -6/+28On a different note; how ugly is that transparent menu bar when you use anything in a full screen mode !
    • superkendall, on 10/26/2007, -2/+4They fixed it in the release build - so not very.
    • aussieNickuss, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1Hopefully somebody comes up with an app to take it back to Tiger appearance. I love the new dock, but that menu looks like it has been changed just for the sake of change...not to make it look better.
    • DOGPARTY, on 10/30/2007, -3/+3you don't use things fullscreen on a mac... they're for multitasking because they're not used by ***** idiots
      • dpfinearts, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2calm down, man. WTF are you talking about. I use most everything full-screen on my mac....and the menu bar and dock and such all go away, unless I call them up. The mac actually uses most stuff in full-screen mode very well, since you can just use Exposé to get it out of the way if you need to.


        • DagMX, on 10/26/2007, -0/+0I think he means more about the fact that mac has no real fullscreen' mode for apps. On windows maximise is an absolute maximise while on a mac maximise is a relative maximise according to content.
      • Lanlost, on 10/26/2007, -0/+1*****.. I can multitask in any OS with applications in full-screen.. because I have a brain. I don't need to see all my applications to remember that they are acutally there.
        "Where did my iTunes go... OH MY GOD.. IT DISSAPEARED.. CALL THE SON!" - Mom
      • lkv87, on 10/30/2007, -0/+2Im guessing you've never opened any of the pro apps, they would look stupid if they weren't fullscreen.
  • bunkka, on 10/26/2007, -12/+4childish. funny, but childish
    • astrosmash, on 10/26/2007, -5/+3I thought it was more awesome than funny.
  • doctorlw, on 10/28/2007, -64/+62This would be funny if it actually were true.

    See, I don't understand Apple fanboys. I bought into the hype 6 or 7 years ago. Worst decision ever. Crashed twice as much as my PC and literally I had to unplug the computer at times to get the damn thing to reboot. I went back to PC's, learned a little about computers, and I haven't gotten a virus since t