OS X 10.9 freeze when WiFi is turned off (POSSIBLE SOLUTION)

tobythetenor, I can see your frustration but my son has a Lenovo laptop which he had to purchase for work. Even when it was under warranty getting tech support or talking to a rep was a nightmare. The laptop is only a little over a year old and it works but think really hard before you switch!

For me the problems of new macbooks is:

1) glance screen (can be fixed with some kind of tape but why for.)

2) flat keyboard (cant be fixed)

3) too smal amounts of usb ports (can be fixed with usb hub but why for.)

4) price in russia

Now it will have also this awful design of ios 7. Even DOS had more design than this.

Meanwhile win8 gets better and better. By perfomance its already better (have it thru parallels)

mzt2, I wasn't going to buy a Yoga just yet, but I can tell you that the Apple support experience isn't always peachy!

I bought a PowerBook G4 in 2006 (online from the Apple store, that was before there was a physical store to walk into), which arrived with a dead firewire port. Rather than returning it, Apple asked me to take it to an 'authorised' service partner. I did, and two weeks later I was charged $800 for replacing the logic board.

Of course I questioned this, but was told the (brand new) PowerBook was out of warrenty by the service partner, whereas Apple said it was never registered for repair in the first place (effectively suggesting I was trying to commit fraud).

Six weeks later, just before trying to invoke a court injunction to retrieve my Power Book from the 'service partner', I decided to write a (physical) letter to Infinite Loop.

Finally, somebody from Apple intervened, and it turned out that the 'service partner' had in fact logged the wrong serial number (of a different model!). Nearly four months later, I finally had my PowerBook back.

Apple's support on this occasion was utterly appaling I have to say.

Incidentally, the MacBook related to this thread had its logic board replaced because of the Nvidia chip going up in flames, and the jokers at Apple forgot to program the serial number in (so my MacBook is a ghost).

Having said all that, when it works it works pretty well, and software like Logic and FinalCut is simply too good to ignore. I think they started neglecting their professional user base a little ever since the whole 'i'(...want-to-make-more-profit) stuff came out, but I guess with regards to content creation handheld seems to be the way things are going, and that's what Apple is really all about.

I wonder if there will ever be a 'Pad Pro' alongside the iPad...

Thanks so much for this script! It saved me today when my old macbook was stuck with this same problem. I wasn't sure if I could type it all in exactly as written but I got it right! Many many thanks!

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I had this problem and finally decided to downgrade to 10.8.4 and I haven't had a problem since.

Question, though. Has anyone upgraded who had this problem upgraded to Yosemite (10.10)?? If so, did they fix the problem in Yosemite?

(I'm debating whether or not to upgrade to Yosemite.)

Thanks!

Bill

Hi Bill,

sorry but I had the same problem with my old MBP 3,1 late 2007 since I upgraded to Mavericks (no problem with Snow Leopard - 10.6)

and the bad news is I upgraded to Yosemite today and the same thing happens :

if I turn the wifi (airport) off , the mbp freezes with no other choice to do a hard reboot (hold the power button until it shuts down)

The freeze occurs from a time that varies from instantly to a few minutes (longest time until it froze was half an hour !)

I'm wondering why this problem hasn't been fixed by Apple since it seems the problem appeared on this type of computer with 10.8 (maybe 10.7) and for me with 10.9 because I upgraded directly from 10.6 to 10.9

I regret I've updated my computer in late 2013 but I really think to install a second drive or partition with 10.6 on it: 10.9 and 10.10 are getting my MBP too hot ! or the fan too noisy with an app like Macs fan control.

I hope this helps ...

best regards

Sébastien

Thanks, Sébastien. I appreciate your post. Yeah, I'm on 10.8.4 and it's been solid for me. Gonna stick with this one until I get a new laptop.

Best wishes,

Bill

Huge bump but I recently reinstalled my laptop from El Capitan back to Mavericks and apparently this issue still hasn't been solved.

I remember I had this issue 2 years back as well so thankfully I figured out what was wrong and knew my laptop wasn't dead.

Bit strange that this is apparently a big issue with many users and it still hasn't been solved... And probably never will.

Another big bump... can't believe this is still a problem.