One of the things about OS X is that most of the time it&#x27;s put on high quality, but non-exceptional hardware. So things like bad RAM, flakey power supplies, bad GPU drivers etc are almost never an issue with a stock machine.<p>Windows, not so much. The only stability issues I&#x27;ve had with windows have been related to poor drivers, almost exclusively from nVidia or ATI&#x2F;AMD. The equivalent hardware for Apple machines either didn&#x27;t exist at the time, or was running much less ambitious drivers.<p>I probably have more issues with my Macbook Air (relating to sleep, hibernate, and wake-up) than I do with my Windows machines these days.