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Macbook Pro freezes ALL THE TIME...not even a month old

What is the deal? I got the Macbook Pro because it was supposed to be the best computer, and literally I can't do anything on it beause it is constantly frozen with the spinning color wheel. I HATE it. It's the most non productive notebook i have ever purchased. I have a slighly older version of the macbook pro and it works just fine. The only problems I have ever had with the older version started after I updated the software. Now the old macbook freezes occasionally, but nothing like the new one.


Is it just a problem with Apple's new software???

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2 GHz i7, 4GB

Posted on Aug 29, 2011 3:51 PM

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Aug 29, 2011 6:01 PM in response to katie101

That is definitely not normal, but it's very difficult to say what the problem might be without more information. Open Activity Monitor and look at the System Memory tab. Compare page outs to page ins. If page outs are more than 10% of the page ins, you're having memory problems and need more RAM.


How much hard drive space do you have free? If you don't have about 10% of your drive free, you can start having all kinds of strange problems.


Try starting up in safe mode... do the problems happen in that mode?

Macbook Pro freezes ALL THE TIME...not even a month old

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