Mac Users Reporting Widespread System Freezes With OS X El Capitan 10.11.4 Update

Thank god windows users don't make videos of windows crashes, youtube would collapse.

 

Oh man, can't wait for the comments.

 

Thankfully not issues here on mid-2015 MacBook Pro yet ironically my 2013 Macbook Pro used to do this all the time. I even had the entire logic board replaced and it still did.

The 2015 next freezes, hasn't once yet, but the fans are too loud on. My average work style causes them to kick in at 50% to 100% quite often, resetting NVRAM has never help, quite annoying, makes working on the 12" Macbook more enjoyable.

 

i had the same issue with my mac air book late 2015 i cleared my history and cookies and the problem went away I'm on el captain

 

Can't confirm: I have this particular 13" Macbook Pro (Core I5) and updated to 10.11.4 on day one. My only complain since then is, that the macbook tries to connect to the eduroam-network at my university, even it's put to sleep, which cause a massive battery drain (dark wake count: 954 in 5h). Every other network is fine.

 

REAAAAALY?

1 crash since windows 10.
1 crash at least every other week with El Cap.

So tired of this....

 

No such probs here for me on an MBP Retina or a couple of MBP Airs, with any of the OS's mentioned. Probs with Twitter app stalls until the latest version, but that is about it. Third party prob?

 

Genuinely, thank you for posting this MR ... I had a handful of rMBPs serviced with replacement MLBs as a precaution based on this description from end users. So now I know that it's a bug rather than a hardware issue and will be fixed.

There was an iMac as well that was exhibiting similar issues (21.5", 3.1GHz i7, 8GB RAM, GT 750M) -- that's getting a new LB fitted as we speak. Can anybody confirm if the issues are just isolated to the rMBPs, or other machines too?

 

Same problem on my iMac (late 2015), it started 1 - 2 weeks ago, 5 times so far

 

Apple Engineer: Sir, OSX 10.11.4 is freezing up. Let's focus R&D efforts to fix.

Apple Executive: Er well... let's focus on making a rose colored car instead!

 

Had one crash after that update on my 2012 MBP Retina.
But might have been a fluke.

 

But my fantasy is steady is basically what you're saying. ^^

 

Same. MacBook Pro 15" 2013. It happened when i closed Youtube tab in Safari.

 

Latest beta version solved the problem for my MBA. Before I was experiencing the issue a few times a day. Now it is fine since the upgrade.

 

Hello.

This bug is not only affecting Mac Book Pro. If you are experience this bug on Mac Pro Early 2008 you can simply resolve this bug by simply reinstall your graphics drivers on OSX.
For example if you are using Nvidia Web-drivers.

HOW TO FIX ON Mac Pro Early 2008​

Follow this steps:
.01 click the nvidia icon in the right top corner on your desktop and choose OSX Default Graphics drivers Drivers
.02 Reboot
.03 Click the Nvidia icon on your desktop and choose Nvidia Web Driver
.04 Reboot.
(Fixed)

Alternative Solution 1(Rumor):
.01 Create a new user account on your Mac.
.02 Reboot and login using your new account.

Alternative Solution 2(Rumor):
.01 Reinstall OSX

-Arcana Art

 

Not very surprising.

 

Yes, or because we're in 2016. You're stuck in the past and probably late to the party. Anyway, it's a OSX and Apple problem, hopely it will be fixed. Can't understand how bashing Windows could be helpful for those affected

 

What I'm saying is this.
OSX is no better or worse than any other operating system.

In my personal experience using a Mac for work and Windows for development. Crashes are becoming more frequent on the mac. Much more frequent.

 

Also on my iMac 27 late 2015.

 

Apple Engineer: Er...OK. What about investing in a Chinese ride-sharing company in the meantime?

 

Apple is probably "investigating the issue" by now...

So not a big deal, right? And all the laid off Vista developers now working for Apple on El Capitan are probably writing a hotfix soon...once they've finished "investigating".

 

This issue is happening on my MacBook air early 2015 as well. Thought of it as a hardware issue, since the clock doesn't move at all.

 

You know what makes this even worse. For some reason people expect windows machines to die on them at any moment.
Ol reliable Mac on the other hand never crashes.

That's the lie.

While you're at it check out the tweets from hundreds of students losing all their finals work due to some random freeze and this faith in the awesome power of Mac!

 

Huh, Windows isn't what it used to be. I haven't had a system wide freeze on Windows 10, ever. I've had a single crash while gaming and that's it.