What is the Rationale?

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What is the Rationale?

Of all of the ridiculous things that computer manufacturers do, one of the most mind-boggling is Apple's insistence on re-opening every single window, at the exact same time, after a system crash.

A crash is a situation in which you cannot uncheck the "re-open windows at login box", Apple just does it anyway. I guess you cold boot into safe mode, but you're apparently not going to get out of a crash without adding the insult of further delays to injury. One way or the other, you're going to have to wait. That'll teach you to crash your computer!

Think about it, if your computer hard locks of freezes, then there was a problem. Do you really want to restore the machine to the EXACT SAME STATE? I mean, hello, McFly?

What if your computer crashed due to overheating?

Then you're in for an absolute treat, because you haven't seen heat until you've watched a laptop CPU hit a 50+ Load Average as it struggles to open 40+ programs and 100+ tabs, windows, and UI elements simultaneously.

"Honey, the stove is ready, go ahead and slap that steak down on my MacBook! No really, Apple has this new iStove feature, all you need to do to run it is, well, just start up your computer! I know, right! It's magical!"

I mean, seriously, the word asinine doesn't begin to describe it.

I'm not even sure how this one makes Apple money. Maybe "support" can convince users that their computers are bogged down because they haven't upgraded to the latest iWhatever? I guess it beats telling them "yeah, we do that on purpose, because ...."

And that's where I become confused.

Unless the average Mac user only has a single window open at any given time?

Maybe that's it. Maybe I'm just using the computer all wrong. Maybe I wouldn't have this problem if I just bought content from iTunes, or iMovie, or iConsumeAndNothingElse and proceed to consume it one-by-one? Or maybe I just don't believe strongly enough in magic?

Either way, I'm willing to be that this practice makes sense and that the problem is me.

On second, thought, never mind. It's all my fault. Please accept my most heartfelt apology. I am iPerson.

Posted on Oct 31, 2023 6:26 PM

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Barney-15E

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Oct 31, 2023 6:39 PM in response to SeattleRex

SeattleRex wrote:

Of all of the ridiculous things that computer manufacturers do, one of the most mind-boggling is Apple's insistence on re-opening every single window, at the exact same time, after a system crash.

I want to keep working on what I was working on when it shuts down.

A crash is a situation in which you cannot uncheck the "re-open windows at login box", Apple just does it anyway. I guess you cold boot into safe mode, but you're apparently not going to get out of a crash without adding the insult of further delays to injury. One way or the other, you're going to have to wait. That'll teach you to crash your computer!

Well, my Macs never crash, but if they did, I'd want to start back with what I was working on. If you don't, use the Apple menu and select Restart, uncheck the box to reopen windows. Restart. If it crashes, it won't reopen the apps.

Think about it, if your computer hard locks of freezes, then there was a problem. Do you really want to restore the machine to the EXACT SAME STATE? I mean, hello, McFly?

Yes, I do. There is nothing I am working on that can cause a kernel panic. I don't install kernel extensions on my Mac, so if the machine panicked, it would not be caused by the software I am using.

What if your computer crashed due to overheating?

It doesn't. kernel_task will throttle the CPU to prevent it from overheating.

Then you're in for an absolute treat, because you haven't seen heat until you've watched a laptop CPU hit a 50+ Load Average as it struggles to open 40+ programs and 100+ tabs, windows, and UI elements simultaneously.

I have no ability to work on 40+ programs at one time. I doubt you are capable of it, either.

On second, thought, never mind. It's all my fault. Please accept my most heartfelt apology. I am iPerson.

Yes, I already knew that.

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