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New 17" MBP Hangs

I have had my new 17" MBP just over a week now. It keeps freezing, and hanging when i do the simplest of tasks. iTunes will skip and lag during songs as well as when I play movies. When it happens, I will see the beach ball spin and every program will become unresponsive for 5-10 seconds. I have reinstalled OS X once already due to not wanting the settings I imported from my time capsule. I have never had the OS hang some many times watching a movie or listening to itunes.

MavBook Pro 17" Unibody (2.8 GHz/ 4 GB), Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on Jul 7, 2009 10:02 PM

63 replies

macfanta

Level 1

28 points

Aug 6, 2009 12:01 PM in response to theycallmefreddy

Now I'm using a single 2GB RAM... testing...

Aug 6, 2009 11:25 PM in response to macfanta

Now on 10.5.8 and the problem still exists. 😟
I can live with the prob … kind of … I'm glad I do not have to do presentations in front of big audiences, then this halt would really be embarrasing.

nkocharh

Level 1

10 points

Sep 1, 2009 6:38 PM in response to OmegaBahamut

Just to reiterate:

OmegaBahamut wrote:
You know there is already a topic about this problem at this address:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2049659&tstart=0

Just 70 pages and 103,096 viewvs.

This problem is understood and there IS A FIX for certain models. Look here for a description:

http://tinyurl.com/m2mttj

And here for the solution:

http://tinyurl.com/lx8vhe

And please call AppleCare and tell them what's going on. Point them to the thread. If enough people call in about this, it will be taken seriously.

New 17" MBP Hangs