"Small percentage?" How many users are there? Come on, it's a *closed*
system. It's not even like a release from Redmond that had a problem with
some esoteric RAID card.
Sure, but that's on *PCs*, not a closed sysetem that I would *ASSUME*
Appple has tested.
The new Apple's are pretty darn close to PCs. The only real
difference is in the BIOS, and to get Windows to install Apple had to
get that emulated. I suspect that Windows is doing exactly the same
thing here, though with very slightly different results.
Regardless of what the exact nature of the issue is, clearly it is
something that slipped through the cracks. As you mention, this is a
closed system, very closed in fact. There's basically only two Apple
x86 systems out there and they use very similar hardware. As such,
I'm sure this has absolutely nothing to do with the hardware side of
things since that would come pretty darn quickly.
What's much more likely is that there is something fairly specific
(though probably not obvious) that these users are doing differently
from what everyone at Apple tested. Maybe this bug should have been
caught before a beta, but you're never going to catch all bugs in the
development stage, that's why we have beta releases. I'm sure this
will be fixed by the next spin of the software.
As for the users who got caught out by this, well you know what the
say about those who live on the bleeding edge...