It depends more on the programs you run than on marginal hardware.  I too have
had machines that 'never crashed'  (I sold the last one <sigh>), but then I
never ran Microsoft Word on them (one of the worst offenders in the MS software
line of expensive memory leakers) or many other programs a typical user uses.
(I should admit here that on systems which do crash I often haven't installed
the various service packs available, though.  I just wish...)

A typical system crash starts when a program misuses or doesn't release memory
(or other system resources, for that matter) when it exits.  It may be several
minutes or several days before this actually affects the rest of the system,
making it difficult to troubleshoot computer crashes.  One cannot easily
recreate the problem, nor find the one program that ran oh so long ago which
caused the problem.

I actually envy those in other countries.  MS won't release a seperate language
version of a product until after the US version was released, and often not
until after the first or even second service pack.  Of course, by then other
countries are flooded with bootleg copies of the american version.

-Adam

"Alexandre Domingos F. Souza" wrote:
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> >O' Lucky Man. Mine crashes at least once a day.
>
>         Almost all the cases are marginal hardware. I have an excelent machine that **never** crashed. Believe it or not.
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