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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:27:41AM -0400, Tony Spencer wrote:
> I've been a Mac convert for a few weeks now and I'm a bit disappointed with
> its stability.  About once a week something hangs up and I can't do
> anything.  It seems to be when I'm running a lot of apps and I think it only
> happens when Photoshop is running.  I can only hope Rosetta has some bugs
> that will be ironed out in later revs.  I'm running the max RAM at 2GB and
> its an Intel Duo Core 2.0GHz so there should be plenty of power.
> 
> My question is what do I do when it happens?  The thing is so bogged down
> that I can't even get Terminal opened to try and kill a process.  I've had
> to resort to powering it down.  As much hate as Windows gets on this list I
> have to say that I can always kill an out of control process on a PC without
> rebooting.

I assume you're talking about the new MacBook, so I also assume it's
probably a side-effect of one of the first-release bugs that's being
extensively discussed on blogs and boards and forums everywhere, so my
only advice is "research" and "go nag Apple to fix your motherboard".

 http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/107/macbook-pro-noise-update
 
http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/apple_has_been_quietly_refining_macbook_pro_since_release/
 http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/macbookpro/topic4135.html
 http://www.insanely-great.com/news.php?id=5934
 http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/systems/macbook_Pro_user_reports.html

Don't blame the OS; it's in all probability a hardware issue. (I see
the occasional temporary lockup on my G4 iBook, and saw them much more
frequently on my ancient 900Mhz G3 Pismo, but it's usually Safari or
a DNS-related issue that brings out the beach ball).

You might also want to grab a copy of MenuMeters, to keep track of your
disk/cpu/memory usage; I've found things get a bit sluggish if you tend
to keep lots of Safari windows open at once, and having the visual cue
to a CPU lockup or memory bloat is useful to me. YMMV.

 http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/

Steve

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