Snow Leopard Ocassional freeze with spinning color wheel..

[bully worm]

Hi everyone,

I bought my first uMbp the day Snow Leopard came out. Unfortunately, it was not installed on the uMbp. So upon running the mbp for the first time, I proceeded to install SL.

Now occasionally, maybe a once every other day, whenever I open up a few applications like Word or maybe even a new tab in Firefox, everything would freeze and the spinning color wheel would spin for about 30 or so seconds and everything would resume to normal.

Now I ask, is this normal behavior? I have the 2.26ghz uMBP edition with 2gb of ram.

Should I go ahead and do a clean re-install?

Someone shed some light.

 

[Cboss]

Have you tried repairing permissions? That fixed the few issues that I had.

 

[bully worm]

Have you tried repairing permissions? That fixed the few issues that I had.

I will do that and come back with the results. Gimme a few.

 

[bully worm]

I will do that and come back with the results. Gimme a few.

It still occurs even after repairing disk permissions

Is a clean re-install imminent?

 

[pmcb]

it used to happen to me quite often when i was just surfing in safari so i emptied the cache and deleted cookies and that fixed it.

 

[bully worm]

Was browsing the Mac forums and came upon this thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2141492&start=0&tstart=15

Apparently this has been an issue for a large number of people...

 

[Cboss]

Since you haven't had your MacBook for too long (and hopefully haven't gotten too much on it that would make for a long reinstall) I would go ahead and do a clean install.