Anyone seen this? Whenever my brand new white Macbook 2.0 GHz w/1 GB RAM (4H626) passes ~65C, everything goes super-jerky, meaning that Expose, Dashboard, the Dock, etc. all turn into a slideshow and stutter horribly. As long as the temp sits in the 65C+ range, it remains stuttering.
I was testing using 'yes > /dev/null' and even if I kill Terminal entirely, it won't start responding normally (quickly) again until the temp bumps back down to around 60C or below. I can reproduce this error every time I push the temp over 65C. My ambient temp is 70F and the Macbook just feels a little warm when it's cranking in the 70C range, so I'm at a total loss. Defective? I've tried replacing the factory 256/256 RAM and it made no difference. Reboots make no difference. And yes, I've scoured the process manager...when the jerking/stuttering is occurring, the CPU is about 2-3% busy (the busiest process is the utility window, in fact, so it's not an app or process hanging me up).
Initially I thought it might be something I'd installed in the process of updating to 10.4.7, so I rebuilt the Macbook from scratch, clean install, minimal bundled apps. I know it's not the apps or my config, because the problem kicked in immediately, as soon as the 3D "spinning" registration cube came up (where you select English, then input your name, etc.). It continued jerking all the way through to loading the desktop. I rebooted, and as it came back up, still jerking (the temp was pretty high from all the DVD spinning and CPU-related file copying during install...as soon as the temp dropped a bit, bingo, it was smooth again).
I'm planning to take it in to the Apple Store tomorrow (I bought it a day ago) and show them, then illustrate it *not* happening on any of their demo Macbooks for comparison, before I just swap it out for a new one.
Anyone else seen this?
Matt
I was testing using 'yes > /dev/null' and even if I kill Terminal entirely, it won't start responding normally (quickly) again until the temp bumps back down to around 60C or below. I can reproduce this error every time I push the temp over 65C. My ambient temp is 70F and the Macbook just feels a little warm when it's cranking in the 70C range, so I'm at a total loss. Defective? I've tried replacing the factory 256/256 RAM and it made no difference. Reboots make no difference. And yes, I've scoured the process manager...when the jerking/stuttering is occurring, the CPU is about 2-3% busy (the busiest process is the utility window, in fact, so it's not an app or process hanging me up).
Initially I thought it might be something I'd installed in the process of updating to 10.4.7, so I rebuilt the Macbook from scratch, clean install, minimal bundled apps. I know it's not the apps or my config, because the problem kicked in immediately, as soon as the 3D "spinning" registration cube came up (where you select English, then input your name, etc.). It continued jerking all the way through to loading the desktop. I rebooted, and as it came back up, still jerking (the temp was pretty high from all the DVD spinning and CPU-related file copying during install...as soon as the temp dropped a bit, bingo, it was smooth again).
I'm planning to take it in to the Apple Store tomorrow (I bought it a day ago) and show them, then illustrate it *not* happening on any of their demo Macbooks for comparison, before I just swap it out for a new one.
Anyone else seen this?
Matt
