However, I remember with Windows XP, I was resetting almost once a week, and could never keep my machine running for more than about 2 or 3 weeks at a time, without something coming up. I think my desktop's uptime is somewhere around 2 months now (I shut it down one night because I had to move it), and my laptop hasn't been reset, but once or twice, just when I wasn't going to use it for a really long time.

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Probably over a hundred times I think. Not every day though, I mistreat computers somewhat and tend to frequently push them past their limits.

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your poor little computer! lol. well i physically kicked mine and cursed at it a lot, but it doesn't screw up much anymore! ha!  of course i would never hit my lap top though!  :p

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Probably over a hundred times I think. Not every day though, I mistreat computers somewhat and tend to frequently push them past their limits.

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Well i crashed my PCs a few hundred times when I did that, a few of them almost daily. XP is terribly unstable with secuirty holes and exploits every week. It's almost impossible to patch an XP machine that's not behind a firewall, because something will probably get to you in that time.

I'd say I push my Macs just as hard these days, if not harder, and they keep asking for more. I think that Macs (or unix in general) does multitasking better, and OS X's graphic interface is much more stable than Gnome or KDE. I know that I can have Word, Photoshop, Protools, Mail, Safari, AIM (which is actually kinda buggy on OS X), and Reason open all together, and don't even notice it. I normally just keep Mail, Reason, Protools and Safari open, and it's perfect.

Windows I just remember Word and Protools taking enough of my processors and memory, that it didn't really like it. I could tell that programs were open, but in OS X the management of memory seems to be better. Oftentimes I'll look down and be like, Oh? Photoshop was open this whole time?

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How long do you think you can keep your Windows system up? I remember at one point with windows 98 first ed, that there was some bug that after 86 days or something, it actually crashed, just because of the uptime? Maybe i'm wrong, but that's what my memory is telling me....

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Though my systems that i use now, havent crashed since i got them... the mac runs flawlessly, as well as the *nix systems, and suprisingly enough the windows (2k3) box does rather well but i dont use it much.