Someone please clue me in as to what happened today (11/12/20). Or rather, why.
The Apple infrastructure apparently croaked, with the Status Board green and red like a Christmas tree.
I had just installed a new printer and drivers and suddenly my iMac begins to act like MS Vista. I click on Gimp and nothing happens for a half minute, then the icon jumps up and down for another minute before freezing, then bobbing again before it eventually loads. The Activity Monitor didn't show full bars like I thought it would and TOP did not give indication of any runaway routine. Other apps in the dock did the same thing, some with two and three minute load times.
Naturally, I assumed the printer drivers had hosed my machine and removed them, unhooked the printer and rebooted. Same problem. I started searching online for the problem and immediately found that many were having the same problem and it was because of some problem within Apple.
This does not give me good vibes about using an Apple machine, if a problem halfway across the country can affect a local box that is using programs that didn't even come from Apple in the first place. This seems a lot like being Microsoft-ish. i.e "We can and will change your PC anytime we want, without either permission or notice, and if you don't like it, tough." I know that Apple was not actually trying such crap, but still, an unknown problem in their universe apparently can affect a Mac that is not even actively online.
So, if Apple has a really major disaster in the same way, do we all look at frozen desktops for days?
Comments, anyone? Or explanations?
The Apple infrastructure apparently croaked, with the Status Board green and red like a Christmas tree.
I had just installed a new printer and drivers and suddenly my iMac begins to act like MS Vista. I click on Gimp and nothing happens for a half minute, then the icon jumps up and down for another minute before freezing, then bobbing again before it eventually loads. The Activity Monitor didn't show full bars like I thought it would and TOP did not give indication of any runaway routine. Other apps in the dock did the same thing, some with two and three minute load times.
Naturally, I assumed the printer drivers had hosed my machine and removed them, unhooked the printer and rebooted. Same problem. I started searching online for the problem and immediately found that many were having the same problem and it was because of some problem within Apple.
This does not give me good vibes about using an Apple machine, if a problem halfway across the country can affect a local box that is using programs that didn't even come from Apple in the first place. This seems a lot like being Microsoft-ish. i.e "We can and will change your PC anytime we want, without either permission or notice, and if you don't like it, tough." I know that Apple was not actually trying such crap, but still, an unknown problem in their universe apparently can affect a Mac that is not even actively online.
So, if Apple has a really major disaster in the same way, do we all look at frozen desktops for days?
Comments, anyone? Or explanations?
