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New Retina Macbook pro 13 Haswell system hang/unresponsive

Hello Everyone.


I have just got my new macbook pro retina 13 Haswell (October Model). This is my second day of usage and i have encountered sudden system freeze for 2 times already. The keyboard and the trackpad stops working including brigtness keys and volume control keys. i have use apple hardware test but no problem are found.



Could anyone tell me what is going on or having the same issue?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 25, 2013 5:56 AM

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Posted on Oct 25, 2013 7:11 AM

I have met the same problem too!

Mine is also the new macbook pro Haswell.


I have been using my macbook for 2 days.

And I have encountered sudden freeze for 4 times!


The keyboard and the trackpad are unresponsive.

But actually the system is working and the apps are working.


And the power button can actually work.

So every time I met this problem,I long press the power button and make it restart.

And then everything is okay.


Somtimes ,if you wait for 10~15 min, the keyboard and the trackpad will start working again.

When the second time I met this problem, I decided to go to the apple store for help.

But after several mins, it works again.


It is very annoying that the system suddenly freeze when you are busy working on the documents.

And it causes damage that you force to shut down the macbook.


I think it is a software problem?

Hope Apple can release some updates to solve this problem soon!

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Oct 29, 2013 11:23 AM in response to kyawlin

Yep, same problem here with my new 4gb 128 gb rMBP.

Apple support suggested the following steps;


1. Reset System Management Controller

2. Reset PRAM

3. Boot into Safe Mode

4. Reinstall Mavericks (This will not erase anything)


Will try to avoid as from these discussions already these steps appear to not work. So will first wait out for an software update (hopefully) before even trying.


New to Macs comming from Windows, must be unlucky bought my first Macbook Air last year which died on me after a few months because of the now know SSD issues. Returned it back then and waited out for a Haswell Retina machine as I did'nt want to return back to Windows after experiencing a Mac/OS X for a short period. Thought I was just unlucky with a 'bad Apple' but now this happens!

Oct 29, 2013 11:24 AM in response to kyawlin

Same issue for me, rMBP Late 2013 13" 8GB 256SSD. Just to add some information:

It happened only one time, i was using safari and i loaded a site with flash content ( No plug in installed on Safari ).

After i closed the lid the Keyboard+Trackpad restarted to work ( 30 seconds ). Now it didn't happen anymore but i have the same error log on console.


"The USB device Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad (Port 5 of Hub at 0x14000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup"


Hope they release a software update asap, we understood that it is not an hardware issue

Oct 29, 2013 11:32 AM in response to idark77

So, I just finished a very long phone call with Apple Care.


We did a few tests (safe format, clean install, etc) and all of the 3 tech guys on the phone with me almost guarranted it was a hardware problem with some unlucky models.


I say some, because even though there are lost of us with the problem, there are a lot more people o bought the new rMBP 🙂

They're saying that Mavericks has been exaustingly tested, and if there had been a problem has obvious as this one, they would have caught it... (and that there are a lot of people who downloaded Mavericks and have no problem at all.)


Not really good news, but it's what I was told.

Oct 29, 2013 11:46 AM in response to paulinha10

So all the new rMBP are unlucky models because all people have issue and also people with older MBP, MB air and iMac... I don't think that these tech guys of customer service were good and if this is true tomorrow Apple can prepare a lot of money to give us back because it has no working laptop to replace these.

For me it is not hardware problem...

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