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[Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Title: Re: [internetworkers] What do you do when your Mac locks up?

Perfect!  That is exactly what I was looking for!  I’ve written it down for future hang ups.  
I’ve already overcome nearly all the “I know how to in Windows” things and I’m liking my Mac.  Finder sucks though.  At least PathFinder was just released in universal binary and its a bit better.


On 4/12/06 9:42 AM, "Greg Brown" <gwbrown1 AT gmail.com> wrote:

Try the "Option-Command-esc" keystroke combo.  This will bring up the Force Quit window and it will show a list of running apps.  When the computer gets in this state look for one labeled "not responding" and select that program and click the "force quit" button.  This should work.  

I have three PowerPC macs at the house and don't run into this problem very often.  If you are seeing this error frequently try inserting the diagnostic disk into the drive to run some memory tests.  A bad bit of RAM is a long shot but I've seen it before, but very rarely.

Don't give up hope yet, though!  I made the switch back when the G3 iBooks were brand new.. just when OS X came out.  It took a while to get over the "I know how to do this in Windows and Linux but not on OS X" feeling.. and I used to kill processes from the command line too.  But it's not the most efficient way.  Anyway, I hope that helps.

Greg

On 4/12/06, Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com> 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.


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