I own three macs (well five, but two of them are museum pieces). The two new ones have never worked properly.
The 17" PowerBook freezes completely several times each day. It's been like that since I got in in August 2003. I've tried to get Apple to fix it, but they can't, so they just say it works fine. Our local Mac guru has tried several times, but without any luck. Some hardware diagnostic tools point to some memory errors, but nothing consistently. It freezes most often when doing processor-intensive stuff, or when I am scrolling in a web browser. But it can also freeze with only Finder running. It always crashes when using iDVD. That program can't be used on this machine.
The 12" iBook was also sick from day one, this time in June 2004. It goes dead and displays a "you need to restart" screen. Happens during startup or while importing CDs to iTunes.
Both machines have had the system reinstalled several times.
Everyone else I know says OS X is so stable, so I think these two machines have hardware faults. They're simply lemons, even if it said "Apple" on the box.
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