I've had four or five in my two and half years of owning a Mac. It's really just the same as a "freeze: in Windows, which happens much more often anyway. It's not so much "OMFG mi Mac crashedededed!" As it is "Well, that sucks"
i just got my first one this morning. It happened as soon as I put in a DVD and I have 4gigs of ram so i guess i encountered a normal problem...still sucks though
I had my first ever kernel panic too last night and it was when I tried to open Adium. The beach ball was just spinning and I did a force quit and all of a sudden I got a message on my screen to restart/reboot and so I held the button down and did that and loaded back up with no problems. whew close 1
Well isn't this just the funnest week ever. Had to do a hard restart yesterday and today because everything just froze, and I just had another kernel panic.
I got the little snitch installation kernel panic but I haven't had any others since I installed Leopard when it came out. I can't remember if I had any in Tiger. I know I've had them on my G3 iMac in the past though not very many though.