Q: OSX Lion + 2011 iMac 27'' + Video = Freeze

I have just started to experience this issue.

My new iMac had been working perfectly until two days ago when the problem arose and the only way to resolve the issue is hard boot, although i have noticed it comes back with all applications open where i had last used them and safari opens on the page that caused the problem, if i select to watch the video again it works.

Come on apple please release a fix as this has now happened 4 times in two days

Thanks Apple for your openess and quick fixes.

Bah. Can't use my $2500 machine to even browse the internet.

i5 iMac, AMD Radeon HD 6770M 1GB

no freezes since last sunday but this morning it happened again. Perhaps it's a weekend thing for my iMac, going into the Apple store later see if I can make it happen on their stuff  

Tried that, but most of the machines still run Snow Leopard. Makes you wonder.

This exact same this is happening to me. Have had my new imac 27-inch, Mid 2011 for about 2 months. Installed Lion and was fine for a week, now 3 days in a row, it freezes up, can still move the mouse around, but it doesn't respond to any clicking, and the only way to make anything happen is to do a hard reboot.

Is Apple going to do anything about this?

Folks, this is what has worked for me as a temporary workaround until a permanant fix comes about:

System Preferences --> Energy saver --> Computer Sleep to "Never"

Restart the iMac.

Go watch videos on YouTube (or anywhere else) to your hearts content. I have been doing this successfully since Thursday night. I have been plagued with the video freeze problem since I upgraded to Lion the day it was released. Now it's not a problem. I am a happy camper and I have faith that Apple is working on the issue.

The only downside? Your computer will remain running (though you can have your display go to sleep). So I just shut down the computer for the night. Not too big of a deal and saves a few pennies on electricity.

Removing Flash or running Flash BETA does not work. I have tried that. The above is the only thing that has worked for me.

Mid 2011 iMac 3.4GHz, i7, 16GB

BEst info I have found on this WHOLE issue is here: http://tidbits.com/article/12394

Not a fix, but some clarity. 

S

I will try this and report back. Thanks.

S

So this happened yesterday when I watched a youtube video while cloning my Harddrive, no sleep involved. I am officially fed up with this crap.

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So I went into my local Apple store. A nice row of unattended iMacs, closed Safari on the first one, checked it was running Lion, put it to sleep. Woke it up started Safari, went to the BBC news page and ran a video. It froze first time. then I moved on to the next one and tried the same thing but couldn't get it to freeze. Meantime a 'genius' came to the first machine to demo Lion to a customer. After watching him trying to get something to work for a while I explained what I had done and re-started the machine for him. Probably lost a sale there. So I suggest everyone visits their local Apple store and see how many Macs we can freeze! THAT might attract some attention.

Just FYI- my iMac has been up and runing for 10 days now with sleep enabled and watching all kinds of video with no crashes aftter intsalling 10.7.2 10 days ago.

Alright can some one please tell me how to get in on the 10.7.2 beta? It seems I have nothing to lose.

Just google it. This forum forbids certain things...

OverHaze wrote:

 

Alright can some one please tell me how to get in on the 10.7.2 beta? It seems I have nothing to lose.

Something that I do consider either. This bug is to serious and the lack of response from Apple is forcing me to look for alternatives. Return to SL or go for the 10.7.2 beta update if that solves this issue.

If I update to the beta how hard would be to get back onto the stable release once 10.7.2 is officialy released to we mortals?