8Gb memory issue. A Serious Bug for white mac book...
Officially white macbooks (mine is a 2008 early version) do not support 8Gb memory. But indeed there is no problem to install and to make it work. My case was the same. There was no problem during 3-4 hours.
But after a couple of or several hours later, programs consume up the cpu and make the mac virtually freezed-out by heavy cpu occupation. There is no special process eating up the cpu. `Dock', 'Terminal' 'Google Chrome', `Safari', and etc.
My first guess was a kind of Hacking or malware problem. But after a month fight with this issue, I got close to the true reason. After I removed the 4Gb memory, I got no more problems.
The official support is 4Gb. So I don't think Apple will do anything about this. I ordered Snow Leopard in the hope that SL can solve this problem.
Anyone has the same issue like this? I've heard that the first generation of macbook air had similar problem. Apple hardware is not much perfect as we expect from them.
But after a couple of or several hours later, programs consume up the cpu and make the mac virtually freezed-out by heavy cpu occupation. There is no special process eating up the cpu. `Dock', 'Terminal' 'Google Chrome', `Safari', and etc.
My first guess was a kind of Hacking or malware problem. But after a month fight with this issue, I got close to the true reason. After I removed the 4Gb memory, I got no more problems.
The official support is 4Gb. So I don't think Apple will do anything about this. I ordered Snow Leopard in the hope that SL can solve this problem.
Anyone has the same issue like this? I've heard that the first generation of macbook air had similar problem. Apple hardware is not much perfect as we expect from them.
macbook white 2.1G core 2 duo, Mac OS X (10.5.8), macbook
