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I have been a Mac user for the last four years. I used to really like it, everything was stable and polished and just worked really well.

But in the last few months, things started falling apart. My computer would freeze every few days, syncing would destroy parts of my data, the iPhone would crash every now and then, there would be weird random glitches...

I'm certainly not ready to abandon ship yet, but I can see it coming. The Mac is not what it used to be any more.



If your Mac freezes every few days, you probably have a hardware problem (or you've installed some third party driver that's messing things up).


May I ask if you've upgraded to Lion a few months ago? My 4 years old Macbook was not as bad as you described, but it does become a lot less stable than when it was under Snow Leopard. Even Safari does not work properly in Lion.

Snow Leopard was truly very stable, it's the best major version of OS X that I've used. I hope the minor OS X updates will fix out all of the Lion bugs.


Well, if I remember correctly, all that stuff did not happen to me when I upgraded to Snow Leopard. That's really all I'm saying.


yes, I did update to Lion.


So you must swap distributions, or try recompiling the kernel.




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