Ok, so heres the deal. Ive had my macbook for about 2 months and its seemed to working just fine. However today while listening to music it decided to lock up and freeze for a good minute before it would unlock and continue playing the music through itunes. It did this a few times so i finally decided to restart the computer. The first time i booted it it froze on the apple logo and the loading circle. I killed it and rebooted, it takes about four to five minutes to get to the desktop picture, and another five to pull up the main menu bar. Im going to let it sit over night and see if it gives me any error messages, however; i still havent seen the dock at all, and ive let it start for about twenty mintues now. It will usually show the top menu bar and then the mouse will give me the sbod while it slowly loads up the top menu bar, and usually the clock is a good few minutes behind. I have tried a pram zap, draining the power off the board, checking the sata connection, unplugging the power, and i ran a hardware check at start up and it said everything was ok. Im completely lost here.
Ive had this mac for less than two months and it has been more of a pain in the butt than any other computer i have ever used, im currently typing on my tank of a toshiba laptop that still works after being dropped multiple times and has been heavily used for a good 3 years. The mac has been comptelely useless is most work situations and has been an absolute pain for almost everything i have done where my pc was incredibly simple for almost every task. Its a refurbished 2.53ghz 4gb ram 9600m 512mb 15" mbp. I am thinking of reformatting it and hoping it works, and then selling it and using the money for a new toshiba or a custom built desktop, because i just cant deal with the amount of money and time i have lost trying to deal with this thing while i could have been getting work done. I hate to post such a stressed and complaining thread but this thing has been nothing but issues and the most recent crash hasnt helped. This crash today has put me back so far on work and school and i just dont have time for it, and i never had to put up with this on my custom built or my old toshiba. Anyways, advice would be appreciated, thanks.
Tim
Ive had this mac for less than two months and it has been more of a pain in the butt than any other computer i have ever used, im currently typing on my tank of a toshiba laptop that still works after being dropped multiple times and has been heavily used for a good 3 years. The mac has been comptelely useless is most work situations and has been an absolute pain for almost everything i have done where my pc was incredibly simple for almost every task. Its a refurbished 2.53ghz 4gb ram 9600m 512mb 15" mbp. I am thinking of reformatting it and hoping it works, and then selling it and using the money for a new toshiba or a custom built desktop, because i just cant deal with the amount of money and time i have lost trying to deal with this thing while i could have been getting work done. I hate to post such a stressed and complaining thread but this thing has been nothing but issues and the most recent crash hasnt helped. This crash today has put me back so far on work and school and i just dont have time for it, and i never had to put up with this on my custom built or my old toshiba. Anyways, advice would be appreciated, thanks.
Tim
