Ok, I just got this MacBook Pro for college this upcoming fall and I noticed towards the end of the day that I got it, the kernel_task began to eat up almost ALL of my CPU. I thought it was happening because of overheating or something. Well, I ruled out overheating because I shut it down for 8 hours or so (sleeping) then when I woke up, I reinstalled Snow Leopard. Tried it once, failed, still had the kernel_task eating up all my CPU. Tried it again, but to no avail. I honestly don't know what's going on because I'm quite a Mac newbie (not iPhone however). The only things that I installed on this was iWork, Microsoft Office, Fugu, uTorrent, and other stuff that were on the two discs that came with the MacBook. I deleted the applications that I thought were causing the problem (Fugu, uTorrent, Microsoft Office). It didn't resolve the problem. It's really frustrating because I was so excited to use it and put all of my stuff in here to get prepared for college and I run into something like this. Please help, thanks.
EDIT: I have a "low-end" 13" MacBook Pro (newest version) running on 10.6.3. I have already tried resetting the PRAM and rebooting which didn't work. Topic is misleading, actually 170%.
EDIT: I have a "low-end" 13" MacBook Pro (newest version) running on 10.6.3. I have already tried resetting the PRAM and rebooting which didn't work. Topic is misleading, actually 170%.