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Gar! My mac mini has become completely unstable. I may have to take it out and shoot it, or run it over with my car.
Wednesday, 25-Nov-09 05:25:00 UTC from xmpp-
@zach Look at it this way: now's your chance to stick a 5200rpm hard drive in that sucker.
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@zach PPC or Intel? I hotrodded my Intel 1.83 mini, now running 2.33 Core Duo
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@bplein recent model intel... I got it specifically because I expected it to be stable.
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@zach what are the symptoms?
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@bplein Apps become unresponsive, the Finder starts beachballin' and then it freezes up. Also the HD was corrupt earlier today.
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@zach sounds like my daughter's macbook pro. Hard drive was dying, no errors in console logs. Replaced HD, problem solved.
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@bplein k, tnx. Ah jeez. I wonder how hard it is to replace a drive in this thing.
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@zach boot in target disk mode and try disk repair but my guess is that it's permanent
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@bplein Yeah, did that. Disk Utility says the drive is OK now. But instability continues.
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@zach first time is hard, subsequent times are easy. there are lots of cables to remove and keep track of.
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@zach replace with nice fat Hitachi 5k500.b or a 7200rpm 320GB Western Digital and you'll be a happy camper
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@zach Fry's sale, $59.99 last saturday, got one to rip open and put in laptop http://www.frys.com/product/6086198
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@zach I guess we don't need to tell you that if you haven't backed it up already you should.
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@markjaroski Maybe we'll see how well this Time Machine thing works for catastrophic failure.
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@zach GET A MAC!
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