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[Tony Spencer <tony AT tonyspencer.com>]

Yeah, I have the noise problem and I called Apple and they told me it was
within the realm of acceptable noise for their specs so no fix for me.  As
long as I run something like PhotoBooth it makes no noise and I couldn't
afford to give up my main machine long enough for them to fix it.


On 4/12/06 9:44 AM, "Steven Champeon" <schampeo AT hesketh.com> wrote:

> 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_refin
> ing_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