It didn’t crash, it wanted the power button fondled.
15:19 Tuesday 29 May 07
The mini is slow (again) so I decide to restart.
Damn thinks me, the mac seems to have crashed, but no, this must be a mistake, I must be dreaming, they don’t crash. So I do what it says:
hmm…. I mentally checked I could do without the machine for weeks and weeks should it break. And hit the power off to restart.
It took me seeing that screen 4 times before the mac got enough of a grip to haul itself into action.
And how much trust do I now have in it?
Zero.
Cable burns out and now this happens. As I have said before, if this were a Dell or any generic PC then certain users would be having a pop at me for buying it. But it’s a mac. That must mean it’s not it’s fault. This one is rapidly turning into lemon. A white square californian lemon.
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Exactly the same thing happened to my Macbook once – http://ocaoimh.ie/2007/03/20/i-made-my-macbook-cry/
16:07 Tuesday 29 May 07
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kernel panics (what you had) happen all the time. I regularly get them if I unplug my phone without unmounting the card first. It’s a software thing not hardware. It’s no biggie.
I never get kernel panics on my servers and they’re doing much more complicated work.
19:46 Tuesday 29 May 07
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I’ve only gotten a kernel panic once, in two years of ownership. You just got new ram, right? They can be caused by bad ram, contrary to what Claire says.
23:27 Tuesday 29 May 07
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So a kernel panic = bsod?
I never had a win problem that needed 4 restarts, and given I powered off and waited 30 seconds at least once in there I find it strange it’s still flustered when I power up again.
Bad ram…. why not apple’s code? It is just as likely, if not more so given the time I’ve had it.
And all I did was close every program and restart. Nothing odd there.
The more I use the more what was passed as cold hard reality of the perfect machines becomes more and more myth-like.
It’ll be in Snopes next :)
09:59 Wednesday 30 May 07
5
It just did it again.
Guy in the reseller place said to try cmd+alt+p+r at switch on which I did.
No idea if it helped.
If I have to get used to this though then without a doubt XP was more solid. If we count this as just 2 crashes, that’s 2 more than Windows gave me in 2 years.
20:43 Wednesday 30 May 07
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Kernel panics can be either software or hardware problems, though as Claire describes software problems are much more likely.
It sounds like a very frustrating experience!
03:17 Thursday 31 May 07
7
Hey,GREAT~ my MAC BOOK inter is having some serious problems too,shutting down without any sign,geting heated,crash…I had to return it twice to fix..
WHITE PIECE OF CALI LEMON:(
10:49 Thursday 31 May 07
8
Limo, you should have got a black one.
21:58 Thursday 31 May 07
9
Claire – white MB’s are shoddy junk? :)
01:36 Friday 1 Jun 07