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Mac Pro 2007 crashes repeatedly
Yesterday my Mac Pro 1,1 (2007) running 10.7 started freezing up. It keeps on doing this after restart. Usually it will perform one task, but when asked to do a second, it freezes. The cursor will ...
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Is there a way to monitor the stack of execution in order to find the longest hangs?
Related to this unsolved mystery: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/62416/why-do-i-get-serious-execution-lag-on-clicks-application-switching-and-general
I'm wondering if there's a way to see which ...
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I'd like to upgrade my MacBook Pro's RAM and hard drive. What brands are reliable?
I do heavy web development/web design and run my software on a MacBook Pro (Mid 2009) 2.8ghz model. I use Adobe products, run virtual machines in Parallels, have multiple browsers open, text editors ...
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'09 mac mini hardware upgrade advice
Hello all I have an early '09 Mac mini 3,1 (Intel Core 2 duo 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 120GB HDD) which I need to upgrade soon as it is slowly dying (i.e., runnning an IDE like netbeans while having chrome open ...
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How to decide on a new Hard drive for macbook pro [closed]
I have been using my Macbook Pro for about 5 years, it was the first model with the Intel chip. The 100GB hard drive is starting to go and I'm ready to replace it. I went over to Cnet to see what ...
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How can I test if my hard drive is going bad?
I've looked over similar questions and searched the internet to try to find symptoms of a bad hard drive, but I haven't found anything that seems to be related to my problem.
I have a late 2008 15" ...
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Upgrading RAM/HDD in latest MBP [closed]
I planning to buy a 13 inch MBP this month. Is it a good idea to stick to the standard 4GB of ram and 500GB harddrive, and upgrade it myself to 8GB/1TB? This would save me about $350. I have ...
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How do I list the plugged memory sticks on Mac OS
How can I list all the currently memory devices on MacOS X?
I need to do this by command, because I have an Java application that needs this information.
Thanks
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Hard drive on latest macbook pro 17 accessed too often
I have the latest macbook pro 17 and it seems no matter what I do, particularly noticeable when I simply scroll up and down on a window, I hear the hard drive tapping away like it's being accessed or ...
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RAM Disk gets unmounted when coming out of sleep
I have a script set up to create a RAM Disk at login. But I have now noticed that the RAM Disk (And sometimes other networked disks) get unmounted when I put the laptop to sleep and wake it up again.
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