mac mini snow crash (video)

[libertango]

As promised:

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Comments

[off_coloratura]

Wow, very odd. And twice! Are you going to take it in, have it looked at?

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

I hadn't even thought of that. (I'm very used to have to sink or swim on my own.) I guess I could, if I can find the receipt. It's been 59 days, and the Apple warranty is... one year, it seems. I use Time Machine (that's what one of those two drives you may have noticed to the left of the mac is for -- they're both 1TB), so I guess I could do a restore...

Hm. Food for thought.

[off_coloratura]

This is NOT normal behavior. I've never seen it before, and our Mini's certainly never done it.

[ckd]

Yup. My first guess would be bad RAM; I don't remember if that model has shared graphics or dedicated VRAM. It might be worthwhile to run hardware test off the DVD overnight or something to see if that finds anything.

[ckd]

You can enter the serial number on their Online Service Assistant page to get the info they have, which should show that it's less than a year old and therefore still covered.

[cluefairy-j.livejournal.com]

Couple of things: Wow. Our Mac Mini's haven't done that. But then, my first mac laptop for my "Switch" kept crashing and I needed to reboot a lot. This irritated Chris no end. Heh.

Anyway, doesn't matter about warranty for basic troubleshooting for free at the Genius Bar. You can take any Mac machine in and they'll do an initial, free, look at the machine (ipod, iphone, etc.).

You can even schedule your Mac Genius visit online.

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

Well, I've just gotten a response from Neal Stephenson (rare enough), who tells me he hasn't seen such a thing recently, although his wife's Treo used to snow crash (!)

[cluefairy-j.livejournal.com]

Screw the mac mini, neal stephenson sent you an email? awesome. ;)

Snow Crash?

[(Anonymous)]

I think you are just trying to trash the mac mini.
You have taken the time to post your video on half a dozen websites, but you haven't taken ten minutes to call tech support or gone to an Apple Store to actually get it fixed? And another reader's suggestion to get Apple help is a NEW idea to you? BS! You can report back to Redmond now. Your negative campaign has been exposed.

Re: Snow Crash?

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

Whatever steps I have or have not taken are not relevant to my main point -- That this happens in the first place.

The public perception is that Macs do not crash. I am providing empirical evidence not only that they do crash, but they do so in a spectacular way. If your point is that the crash is fixable... Well, yes. And so are the overwhelming majority of crashes in Windows (or UNIX/Linux, or BeOS, or OS/400, or whatever).

If you can provide evidence of a Windows machine doing a snow crash, I welcome it. If not, then I regret to say Macs really are different.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

I do wonder, though, if you're so used to Windows machines and their typically useless warranties, that you haven't quite worked through the fact that a mac is like a toaster in this respect; if it breaks in the first year, Apple will sort it out. (And you can buy Applecare for years 2 and 3 too). Macs do, in fact, create spectacular display effects. But it's normally a hardware rather than a software issue.

[hal-obrien.livejournal.com]

I will freely concede the possibilities of Stockholm Syndrome taking hold on me.

So, yes, this may be "learned helplessness" taught at Windows U.