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0 pointsmelted10y ago0 comments

You should take your Mac to the store and have them take a look. Or at least run hardware diagnostics. I've been using Macs for well over a decade and in that time I have maybe seen 4-5 crashes total, across multiple laptops and desktops. A crash every two weeks is not a normal situation in OS X.

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outworlder10y ago

Depends on what you are doing.

Just yesterday, OSX was convinced that I had an external monitor. I did, but that was 2 hours back when I was at the office. So I got to the preferences screen and.. the kernel crashed.

dkonofalski10y ago

Do you have some kind of third-party display or window manager installed? I regularly (as in "every day") have my Macbook hooked up to dual monitors and I've never had the kernel crash due to a disconnect or a change on the preferences screen. Does that happen regularly for you or was that just a one-off occurrence?

KirinDave10y ago

I've got an otherwise unexceptional LG monitor that with one specific generation of MacBook causes all sorts of problems. My windows machines and newer macbooks don't have this problem, and connect to the monitor fine.

So it can be hardware issues. Often subtle ones.

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r00fus10y ago

Some combination of (Windows on VMWare, startup utilities,corporate virus/malware protection tool and external monitors) are my bane.

I've given up keeping VMWare open, and I experience very very few issues - even on an older OSX release (again, due to corp IT).

meltedOP10y ago

Lucky you, VMWare is getting rid of Fusion anyway.

Rapidwire10y ago

Where did you read that?

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KirinDave10y ago

If you use virtualization, it is.

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outworlder10y ago

Depends on what you are doing.

Just yesterday, OSX was convinced that I had an external monitor. I did, but that was 2 hours back when I was at the office. So I got to the preferences screen and.. the kernel crashed.

dkonofalski10y ago

KirinDave10y ago

So it can be hardware issues. Often subtle ones.

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r00fus10y ago

Some combination of (Windows on VMWare, startup utilities,corporate virus/malware protection tool and external monitors) are my bane.

I've given up keeping VMWare open, and I experience very very few issues - even on an older OSX release (again, due to corp IT).

meltedOP10y ago

Lucky you, VMWare is getting rid of Fusion anyway.

Rapidwire10y ago

Where did you read that?

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KirinDave10y ago

If you use virtualization, it is.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse