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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1520413"><p>My experience is that 99% of my freezing errors were due to software getting into some lost state. In fact, I've never seen a Mac product fail into a freeze because of hardware issues. Not that it can't happen, but the much higher probability is that some software is stuck in some unknown state or that too many things are open at once, causing paging to become intolerable. The OP gave three examples: Photoshop, searching Google and unknown. As I said earlier, Photoshop can take enormous memory chunks, particularly if the OP is trying to do lots of things to lots of photos, so paging is a candidate there. And beachballs while searching for Google is most likely a network issue. It's hard to guess what "anywhere" means. </p><p></p><p>As you said, if the machine is still in warranty, then the OP certainly can take it back to the store, but that's already been done once and the problem remains, which to me points to something the OP doing or done on the software/operations side of the equation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1520413"] My experience is that 99% of my freezing errors were due to software getting into some lost state. In fact, I've never seen a Mac product fail into a freeze because of hardware issues. Not that it can't happen, but the much higher probability is that some software is stuck in some unknown state or that too many things are open at once, causing paging to become intolerable. The OP gave three examples: Photoshop, searching Google and unknown. As I said earlier, Photoshop can take enormous memory chunks, particularly if the OP is trying to do lots of things to lots of photos, so paging is a candidate there. And beachballs while searching for Google is most likely a network issue. It's hard to guess what "anywhere" means. As you said, if the machine is still in warranty, then the OP certainly can take it back to the store, but that's already been done once and the problem remains, which to me points to something the OP doing or done on the software/operations side of the equation. [/QUOTE]
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