Remember when Apple introduced the shuffle:
Well it looks like the MacBook has also joined in.
This banner is not an advocation against Apple in any way but rather an attempt at keeping MacBook owners smiling through the bad times.
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After sufferring yet another lot of random shutdown fits on Saturday, I decided to take my MacBook to the Genius Bar at the Apple store.
More after the jump.
Following the frustrating experience of having my MacBook shutting down without warning, I came across a terminal command that “tests” if your MacBook suffers from the issue. I thought I’d share this with everyone considering that many MacBook owners may not even be aware that their MacBook is faulty until it shuts down on them.
More after the jump.
My Macbook is now just over two months old and I’ve been extremely happy with it, until it suffered a series of random shutdowns immediately after logging in earlier today. This was followed by a simple refusal to start up. Overall, it was very much like what has been experienced by YouTube user, pippoburro: a series of shut downs, without any warnings!
More after the jump.
That’s right folks, my MacBook demands to have 4TB (no typo here, that’s Terabytes or 4000 GB) of space!
This happened when I tried turning on OS X’s File Vault’s feature, which (when it works) automatically encrypts and decrypts the contents of your home directory in real time.