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You should take your Mac to the store and have them take a look. Or at least run hardware diagnostics. I've been using Macs for well over a decade and in that t
by melted 11y ago
You should take your Mac to the store and have them take a look. Or at least run hardware diagnostics. I've been using Macs for well over a decade and in that time I have maybe seen 4-5 crashes total, across multiple laptops and desktops. A crash every two weeks is not a normal situation in OS X.
- outworlder 11y agoDepends on what you are doing. Just yesterday, OSX was convinced that I had an external monitor. I did, but that was 2 hours back when I was at the office. So I got to the preferences screen and.. the kernel crashed.
- dkonofalski 11y agoDo you have some kind of third-party display or window manager installed? I regularly (as in "every day") have my Macbook hooked up to dual monitors and I've never had the kernel crash due to a disconnect or a change on the preferences screen. Does that happen regularly for you or was that just a one-off occurrence?
- KirinDave 11y agoI've got an otherwise unexceptional LG monitor that with one specific generation of MacBook causes all sorts of problems. My windows machines and newer macbooks don't have this problem, and connect to the monitor fine. So it can be hardware issues. Often subtle ones.
- spronkey 11y agoConnected via HDMI? And goes into YPbPr mode because OS X thinks its a TV? And has no override.
- r00fus 11y agoSome combination of (Windows on VMWare, startup utilities,corporate virus/malware protection tool and external monitors) are my bane. I've given up keeping VMWare open, and I experience very very few issues - even on an older OSX release (again, due to corp IT).
- KirinDave 11y agoIf you use virtualization, it is.