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After four months of working fine, the iBook’s LCD went out again on Tuesday, this time with no warning at all.

It’s not just the pain of going to the Dell to work that has me down, it’s the anguish in admitting that Apple is fallible. I’m a big fan of the underdog (particularly one as good-looking as this one), but I hope I don’t end up all battered wife on this one, constantly coming up with excuses why things aren’t working out and blaming myself for problems–”Maybe I do use it too much or close the clamshell too tightly or leave it on too long…”

Actually, that last bit, about leaving it on too long, reminds me how incredibly stable OS X has been. In the year I’ve had the machine, it has never locked up and I’ve never had to force a shutdown/reboot. When an application has frozen (which is very rare), force quitting that app has never caused any instability in other apps or across the machine. In contrast, in the two days I’ve been back on XP full-time, I’ve had Dreamweaver, Excel, IE, and Firebird all quit on me unexpectedly, leading to problems with the Explorer and causing me to reboot the machine twice just to clear out any residual side effects.

So while Microsoft, which is ostensibly a software company, has issues with application stability, Apple, which is mainly a hardware company, has problems with the nuts and bolts of their products. What to do?