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- 17" MBP C2D 2.8 4GB OS X 10.8 | iPhone 5
My dad has an iMac that's the model before these current ones. For the past few months he said he's been experiencing the spinning colorwheel about 3/10 times he starts the machine up. This happens whenever he moves the mouse from the center of the screen after startup, not even having to click anything. He's using the Bluetooth trackpad, but I think this issue was happening even when he had his bluetooth mighty mouse that it came with. When the colorwheel pops up, he can't really do anything on the computer. Even pressing the key combo to bring up the Force Quit screen doesn't happen in a timely manner. When he presses cmd+opt+esc, it takes anywhere from 2-5 mins to pop up. I'm not sure of any specific apps he has on it, but he says he just uses it as a normal user and doesn't try to dilly dally with it. I've already had him reset the PRAM to no avail. Does anyone think they know what it could be? He's running the newest version of OS X 10.6.5 Thanks.