bryanthompson's Journal: MacBook and iMini - both hang like crazy

Have any of you guys running Intel macs had this problem? Both my iMini Duo and black MacBook randomly hang up and give me the beachball for up to 3 minutes at a time. Eventually it comes out of it and I can continue. There doesn't seem to be any repeatable steps I can go through to cause it to happen again, so it's just a random annoyance. I keep my activity monitor showing the history all the time, and during these freezes, the processors are never even close to even 1/4 of capacity. I know that sometimes disconnecting from file shares causes a hang, but this is definitely not what's happening to me.

Anyway, I'm hoping for some major patches to come out around WWDC time to fix a lot of weirdnesses I've found. When my intel macs are running well, I couldn't be happier, but I keep finding myself on the Quad G5 because it never has problems, ever.

A solution

[stormcoder]

Put linux on it. :) Just joking.

How do you like the imini duo?

How much memory?

[arb]

I don't have that problem with my Intel-based Mac Mini and I run that sucker 24-hours a day. (It drives my media centre - TV tuner, videos, iTunes, DVDs, etc.) I have 1GB RAM in that tiny box and rarely get the spinning beachball...