IMac :: Pc Get Speedbumps Roughly Every Six Months?

Apr 5, 2009

This seems to be the case, but was wondering if anyone knew for certain?

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IMac :: Unable To Switch On System / Vertical Stripes Appeared Two Months Ago

Aug 25, 2010

Its a G5 iMac ihave been using for abt three years now. first i got the vertical stripes about two months ago and today when i tried to switch it on, it won't. I turned it off last night after use and when i tried this afternoon, it was hot and it does not turn on?

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Macbook Disconnects From Wifi After Roughly 30 Mins

Feb 23, 2012

Recently my macbook (running snow leopard) has started disconnecting from wifi after about half an hour, this is getting really frustrating, how can i stop it?

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MacBook Pro :: Spontaneously Reboots - System First Freezes For Roughly 30 Seconds

Dec 1, 2014

I have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro with a 2.53 GHz Core i5 processor and 8 GB of RAM, running OS X 10.10.1.  For the last few weeks, at apparently-random intervals, the machine has been rebooting while I've been using it.  I can't tie this to anything in particular that I'm doing.  It may go a couple of days before a restart, or it could be like today, where it's happened five times in the last four hours.  I've tried resetting the PRAM and the SMC without apparent effect. 

When the reboot happens, the system first freezes for roughly 30 seconds--the mouse pointer won't move, it's unresponsive to keyboard input, etc.  The system then appears to power down--the screen and external monitor go dark, fans stop, keyboard backlight goes out.  A few seconds later, it powers up, gives the boot chime, and goes through the normal boot sequence.  At no point does it give the "your computer was restarted because of a problem" message, and I don't see anything in the Console app that looks like a kernel panic. 

About two years ago, the logic board was replaced to address a somewhat-similar issue--the system had been freezing and could only be recovered by a hard power off (holding down the power button for several seconds).  

I'm not sure where to start looking for the cause of this problem, since I can't figure out anything in common with the circumstances surrounding the reboots.

Info:
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)

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MacBook Air :: White Ring Of Light In Middle Of Blank White Screen / Roughly Three Inches In Diameter

May 4, 2005

I've begun to notice a ring, roughly three inches in diameter, in the middle of my Air, Rev C, Screen. It is a white ring, a couple of millimeters thick,that I can see best behind an all white screen, i.e. a blank page of a word processing document.

Anyone seen anything like this before. I can actually see part of it right on the white of the page I am typing in this thread.

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MacBook Pro :: Had To Reformat MBP After 6 Months?

Oct 16, 2010

I was let down when I found that I had to reformat my MBP 13" after 6 months of use. I also had Bootcamp installed but I found that my MBP would take a long time to boot into OSX and when I did, I had a lot of spinning beach balls. Even my Bootcamp began giving me errors. After using the utilities to find out what the health issues were, I found that my repairs to the hard drive were unsuccessful and I had to reformat.Mind you I had a time machine back up, but I was frustrated that after just six months of owning the MBP I had to reformat. It brought back memories of dealing with Windows. I mean, if I have to do this again in 6 months, I mine as well use Windows since I basically did the same thing then too. (And it was cheaper!)

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MacBook :: New System Batteries Saying Its 123 Months Old?

Feb 19, 2009

My macbook is a week and a day old. It is the newer whitebook with nvidia and all that. Coconut battery says its 123 months old? why is this? The only thing i can think of is that apple possibly had a used macbook come in and they switched out some parts and changed it to the new one? btw it was bought new at best buy.

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MacBook :: Battery With More Capacity After 8 Months Use?

Apr 4, 2009

Got a question about the battery in my wife's white Macbook. I just downloaded (and ran for the first time) Coconut Battery and it reports the following info:

Current Battery Charge: 5281 mAh
Maximum Battery Charge: 5281 mAh

Current Battery Capacity: 5281 mAh
Original Battery Capactiy: 5020 mAh

Battery-LoadCycles: 60
Age of your Mac: 8 months

Now, I'm no rocket scientist, and I'm definitely not complaining, but how in the world does my battery have More capacity now than it did when it was new? Is this an error in Coconut? System Profiler reports the same capacity and my research online seems to concur that 5020 mAh was the original capacity.

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MacBook :: New Model But Unit Six Months Old

Jun 3, 2009

So I got my Macbook Aluminum 13 inch 2.4GHz for a few days ago, and I just downloaded coconut, and it says that my Mac is 6 months?! And my battery mah is like 4200, with 6 cycles. Is this bad? and should I get a refund?

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OS X :: Magic Mouse Battery Does Not Last 4 Months?

Nov 26, 2009

it's been exactly one month that I've used my magic mouse and it died out already

Has anyone else experience this? I was under the impression this mouse was great on battery, correct me if i'm wrong but I read it can last up to 4 months on a single set of double A batteries?

So now I am going to get some new rechargeable batteries. What are a good kind to get that last pretty long?

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MacBook :: Kept On Turned Off For Few Months Now It Won't Turn On?

Jun 15, 2012

I had my Mac book off for a few months, I went to turn it on today and it is not working any idea why?

Info:
MacBook, Mac
OS X (10.5), not sure about the os x version

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Windows On Mac :: Install Vista On MBA Then Move It To MBP In A Few Months?

Sep 7, 2009

I have a MBA, and have decided that I want to have Windows on it as well, since although I hate Windows and love OSX I use quite a lot of Windows only s/w, and I only want to carry one computer.

Couple of questions though:

How big a partition does Windows really need (I have 128GB SSD, about 80GB free right now)?

If I get a new MBP a few months down the line, how easy is it to move the copy of Windows to that? And do they honestly expect me to pay �250 a time to install Windows on two laptops if I decide to keep the old one, even though they are both for me and would never be used at the same time?

This is an honest question, I don't want to cheat anyone, but I'm not exactly made of money, and the price of the Windows os scares me!

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MacBook Pro :: Finance - Deferred Interest For 12 Months?

Feb 8, 2010

What is the best way to finance a MacBook? I was looking at the deferred interest for 12 months from Barclay's on Apples site. However, I have not calculated how much interest that would really be but is it a guarantee that they would give me enough credit limit to cover that MBP I would want?

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: It Keeps Re-opening Saved State From Months Ago?

Feb 7, 2012

I have a MacBook Pro ca. 2010.  It's on 10.7.2.  For the past few months I've been fighting this particular problem, and have not been able to get a solution on other Mac forums.  Hopefully someone here has some insight. Every time I start or restart the Mac it restores the desktop, including the dock and apps, to a state from a few months ago.  It opens Safari, iPhoto, System Preferences and the Real Player Downloader (which I just this moment deleted).  iPhoto immediately wants to repair its database, Safari opens the tabs that were open that day, and System Preferences goes to Network.   

I have tried deleting the folders in /username/libraray/application saved states.  I have locked that folder.  I have unchecked the option in Preferneces, and I always uncheck the option to save states when shutting down.  Based on a suggestion from a user elsewhere I repaired disk permissions on the hard drive. 

Info:
MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Any Reason To Wait Several Months For Next Update

Apr 9, 2012

Is there any reason to wait several months for the next OS update? I presently use Snow Leopard on all  my machines, but using ICloud on my IOS devices is pushing me to a download of Lion. I just don't want to pay for it again in June or July.

Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), MacAir, IPad, Iphone 4s

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Intel Mac :: 2011 14 Months Old Won't Startup - Keeps Powering Off?

Jun 19, 2012

A few weeks ago I had problems with my iMac freezing and also had a few Kernal panics.  I ended up doing a disk utility with the actual startup disk and since then it worked for about 10 days but just recently froze again (while in Firefox) and started making a continuous loud beeping from the speakers  and kind of a staticy sound...so I turned it off but now it won't stay started.  I hear the "bong" noise and then see the apple logo and the bar under apple logo starts to come on but disappears And then it powers down to black screen and off. I have tried putting disk in but it spits it out at startup I have also tried Resetting pram and smc...I hope I did that correctly I believe I did? What other steps can I take?

Info:
iMac

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Laptops :: MacBook Pro Riginal Dying Leg For The Past Few Months?

Sep 17, 2010

Are there any cons to purchasing a refurbished MacBook Pro? My original has been on its dying leg for the past few months. Had it since 2003! I'm not in a position to spend so much money on a brand new MBP. Has anyone bought there Mac refurbished?

What has been your experience thus far?

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MacBook Pro :: 2 Months Old - 6 Kernel Panics And Applecare Useless

May 30, 2012

The first couple kernel panics I had appeared to have been caused by Trend Safe Web Surfing for MAC i have since uninstalled that and it keeps panicing.. programs i always have open

- safari

- firefox

- skype (text chat only .. never video)

- Outlook for Mac

- Adobe CS5 Dreamweaver   

there is never anything consistent about when it happens

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Info:
Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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MacBook Pro :: 17" Battery Status - After 10 Months Daily Usage

Sep 26, 2010

I think you guys will agree with me, that I have powercycled my battery too much, resulting in a serious loss of performance with my battery.

I have been unplugging my MBP each, and every night, and then using battery during th day until I got the low battery warning, then plugging it in until the evening, and so on.

Looking at the status below, 50+ powercycles in 10 months has reduced the life of my battery by half. Looks like I will invest in a new battery at some point, and follow Apples guidelines to the letter in future.

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Samsung SE-S084F DVD Burner, Used With It For Months Is Now Suddenly Unsupported?

Apr 15, 2012

My Samsung SE-S084F dvd burner, used with lion for months is now suddenly unsupported... how can it be possible? I can now read cd/dvd but trying to burn them gives me "Internal error". Disk Utility report: "Burn support: not supported". I burned my last dvd three days ago, running lion 10.7.3. The only thing I can think of is a software update done few days ago, something about java. Samsung says that lion isn't officially supported, but i've used it a lot and I know it works…  Things that i've tried:1) reboot2) firmware update3) many different burning software including "drutil" from the shell4) I've tested the device on another computer (ubuntu 11) and it works like a charm Additional information (drutil info):

Vendor          Product                          Rev
TSSTcorp      CDDVDW SE-S084F      TS00 
Interconnect: USB
SupportLevel: Unsupported  

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Info:
Any burning software, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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Software :: Unable To Get Grip Of Imoves Program / 6 Months Old ILife09 Installed?

Jul 20, 2009

I hve a imac desktop 6 months old with iLife09 installed. I have been for 4 one to one lessons but still can not get a grip of the imoves program .My previous mac with tiger worked fine, I wondered if it was possible to install the old system in my mac to run allong side 09. My local mac shop was not sure but thought I would have to remove Ilife to do so they allso said they no longer support the older system. I wonder if you san confirm this or are they talking mince

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Intel Mac :: Not Detecting Scanner In Canon MX340 After Working Fine For Couple Of Months

Apr 7, 2012

This is not a Canon problem as other computers (PCs) detect the scanner and work fine. This was originally the easiest multi-function printer/scanner setup I ever did.The scanning is easy and worked fine for a couple of months, then several days ago it gave "scanner not available" message,tried deleting the scanner and then adding, now it will not detect the scanner ONLY the printer

Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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MacBook :: Old Emails Gathered In Inbox / Emails Marked Unread 3-4 Months Old?

Mar 17, 2009

I am new to Mac-have recently migrated from PC to a dear little MacBook. This may be a server problem, but thought I would ask. Suddenly my inbox filled up with 1500 old emails (3-4 months' worth all marked "unread"). Have I inadvertently done something?

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OS X :: Desktop Background Picture Keeps Reverting To An Old Picture From Months Ago?

Feb 22, 2009

As stated in title, the desktop picture will randomly revert to a picture I had up there months ago, usually when I run the battery all the way down on my unibody MB, but also when I change display settings when i plug into an external monitor.

Do I just need just reset the PRAM or is there something else I'm missing.

BTW, I have searched and I know I only have a few posts...

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MacBook :: Macbook Has Been Overheating And Freezing For Several Months

Dec 24, 2010

My macbook has been overheating and freezing for several months now. I bought a cooling fan to put it on which has helped. What is the best fan replacement brand and how difficult is it to instal?

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IMac :: The Dimension In Inches Of The Imac 27 From Top Of Desk To The Top Of The Imac?

Nov 23, 2009

Still waiting on my new 27" i7 imac. Trying to figure out if current desk is suitable. Can someone tell me the dimension in inches of the imac 27 from top of desk to the top of the imac

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IMac :: Debating Between IMac And MBP... Leaning Towards IMac?

Aug 15, 2010

I hope you don't mind helping a guy out in his choice in what he truly needs... so I guess I'll get down to the basics.

First off, music is my main priority when it comes to computing, I write all sorts of electronic music, I'm used to working in Windows under Ableton or FL Studio, so I'm not hip to the Mac software for these functions.

In addition to the electronic music I write, I'm also very much into music instruments, I've been playing drums for around 8 years now, bass for 5 years, guitar even... so I plan on multi-track recording... up to 16, maybe even 32?I do plan on opening up my own home studio, I would be using this PC, (not sure if the MBP or the iMac)

I'm also a lightweight gamer, playing games such as Team Fortress 2, World of Warcraft, or StarCraft II (Diablo 3 will probably be my biggest gaming vice when it comes out) sparingly in my free time, which would be better for this sort of light gaming?I sometimes spend up to 8 hours on the computer, also, so if these screens are too harsh on the eyes after extended periods of time, I'd appreciate if someone could enlighten me to that.

SO, with all that said, which do you guys think would suit me better? (and I'm really thinking the iMac would)... I used to want portability, but I don't think I'd feel comfortable taking a $2,000 laptop with me around campus at the local community college.

- Needs to be able to record up to 32 tracks of audio
- Needs to be able to render high quality tracks
- Minimal latency
- Able to run some of the less graphic intensive games out now
- Easy on the eyes for extended periods of time


Oh, I'm also an amateur filmmaker, I love filming, editing, and producing, etc.Would you guys suggest the i5? i7? Oh, and what clock speed does the 2.93GHz i7 run at when in turbo-boost using all cores?Oh, and what's the resale value of the iMac compared to the MBP? I heard the MBP retain pretty well, is the same true of iMac's?

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IMac :: Itunes And Safari Running, Enable The Visualizer Imac Is Noticeably Slower?

Dec 31, 2010

System Spec: Late 09 21" 3.06, GeForce 9400, 4gb ramCurrently I have itunes and safari running, if i enable the visualizer my imac is noticeably slower, especially when browsing the internet.I thought it might be the fact I was running a second 1080p display from the 9400 would have caused the slow down. But the same thing occurred after i disconnected it. After repairing permissions and restarting, pmram etc.Is the 9400 causing the slowdown? I know its fairly old but itunes visualizer and safari should be quite basic tasks. Its not the end of the world i know but does the 27" imac have similar issues as i plan to upgrade my machine in 2011.

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IMac :: Slow Wireless N Site Lookup For New IMac And Linksys WRT610N Router?

Aug 12, 2008

I had a DLink DIR-655 Wireless N router and my wireless was running very fast, 9.7MB using [URL] with no lag looking up sites. I had to upgrade the router since I was hosting a site and the router wasn't working properly for that.

So, I bought a Linksys WRT610N Dual Band router. I have the iMac running on the 5GHz band and it runs around the same speed.

HOWEVER, when I open Safari or Firefox, in the status bar, it says "looking up google.ca..." or whatever site I'm browsing for and can take up to 5-10 seconds before it starts to display the site. When it is on the site, browsing around is fast as long as it doesn't change domains.

ANOTHER HITCH, I have VMWare's Fusion installed on the iMac and Vista installed there and there is no lag to browsing a site. When I type in the site, it immediately goes to the site and I am able to browse fine.
Any thoughts on this?

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Mac Mini :: Migration Assistant To Transfer The Programs To My IMac Without Losing Data On IMac

Sep 11, 2008

The Mini Has Some Great Software On it, Could i Use Migration Assistant To Transfer The Programs To My iMac Without Losing My Data On My iMac? Or is There Any Other Way?

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