<p>a kernel panic occurs more often with the older OS, as well as with drives that are low on memory and that aren’t regularly maintained.
It is hardly trouble free, but compared to Windows etc, I see them as such.</p>
<p>We have had a succession of macs for the last 18 years. We originally started down this road because I travel for work and I wanted to reduce the chance of getting “that support call” from home. </p>
<p>We have been a 4 mac family for the last 5 years and the only failure was my laptop hard-drive which failed when I dropped it with the computer running (don’t ask). In total over the 18 years, we have had 1 power supply failure (on an 8 year old machine) and 2 hard drive crashes. Bottom line, they have been trouble free.</p>