No. I have very few crashes. I have a very similar system to your friend except that I have 8GB instead of 4GB and my video card is not as good to his.
I already ran several different Vue versions in several completely different computers and I always had few crashes.

This kind of things has been debated over and over again in numerous threads in this forum (and others). Do a search and you'll see. Some people have very few crashes, others have many. Why that is, it's a mystery. However, it's the same Vue, only running in different systems. If the same Vue runs well in many systems and not well in other systems, the more logical conclusion is that the major source of problems is not in Vue but rather on the systems. Maybe poorly configured systems, maybe some specific installed software that is not compatible with Vue, maybe systems not properly cared by their users, etc, etc.