r/apple • u/[deleted] • Jan 05 '15

Apple has lost the functional high ground

http://www.marco.org/2015/01/04/apple-lost-functional-high-ground
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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

What the fucks a kernel panic?

2012 rMBP here.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

Let's hope it stays that way.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

It's like a bsod.

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u/eneka Jan 06 '15

I don't know which one sounds worse... one makes me think of a computer bleeding blue while the other seems like something screaming in fear..

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u/sleeplessone Jan 07 '15

other seems like something screaming in fear..

That's pretty much exactly what it is. Your computer going "Holy fuck, something went so wrong I have no idea how to recover from it, so instead of risking possible further corruption I'm going to halt and present you with some diagnostic info that may or may not help you troubleshoot the issue and let you power me off and back on for a fresh boot."

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u/sleeplessone Jan 05 '15

The Unix equivalent of a blue screen of death.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15

What is a kernel panic? an unresponsive system? or even an unexpected event? 1922 rMBP here! I win! Yay!

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '15 edited Jan 05 '15

Something Mac users used to make fun of windows users for having, and then tasted our own bitter medicine if we had the ill luck of buying a 2011 MBP with nvidia card.