I’ve had my imac less than a month and it already got stuck in “your computer had to restart due to a software issue” loop.... wouldn’t go into safe mode.
And a few other problems. My last computer was win 7 and stayed on for months at a time.
The only solutions I saw on any forums was to suggest that it was 3rd party hardware. Which there was none. But then again for other small problems, the only suggestion I’ve seen for anything is that it is 3rd party something. Never Apple. I hear the support is pretty good though.
Some things ios does in a slower and dumber way than windows though. Can’t drap and drop from memory cards to folders. pretty lame
Wow. I’ve used Imacs for nearly a decade and that has never happened. I update my software regularly. Sometimes a particular program left running will hang up an update, but that is not a big deal.
You may want to go to some iMac forum with your problem and I will be there is a quick fix to it.
When I was using Windows on a daily basis for my photography work it would need to be restarted a couple of times a day because even though the program would close a large image, the memory remained “captured.” I figured I was spending almost a full work week every year waiting for it to restart. This was never an issue with the Mac.
Fixing it is probably pretty easy, but it requires another Mac to do it. Use a lightning cable to connect the two together, boot the sick machine in target disk mode, and it mounts on the other machine as an external drive. You can do anything to it then,
We have two Macs and two Windows laptops at my house. Windows is 7 and 8.1 respectively.
I don’t see any superiority in the Mac software or hardware, in fact I’ve had more hardware problems with the Macs, one requiring DVD replacement and the other needed to be replaced entirely after the graphics card died within a week of purchase.
As far as software, both seem to never need to be rebooted but the Windows will get rebooted about once a month because the software has been updated.
I think it is a Coke vs. Pepsi thing.