Crashing Macs
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I am new to using Mac OSX full time as my primary machine so I am not used to this at all. But so far, this week, I have had my brand new, top of the line Mac laptop running the very latest, fully patched Mac OSX release crash on my twice. Once it just froze and I had to power cycle it. And just now it "black screened" with it's "something went wrong and we have to restart" message.
Is this common for Mac users? So far, OSX does not seem remotely as stable as Windows or Linux desktops.
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Looking at the error report, looks like it might have been Sophos running when it crashed. AV is always a top culprit for instability issues, maybe this is related to Sophos on Mac?
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I had to take Pertino off my MacBook Pro because it was causing the network to not connect when resuming from standby.
Since removing it, the problem never returned. I have yet to put it back on after the update last week.
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I've few of my collegues who upgraded to Yosemite facing performance issues, crashes etc
I am still using 10.9 on my home & office macbook. Are you not using Webroot on your MAC?
Had Sophos on the home iMac, felt performance issues, but thats fixed once I installed Webroot!
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No, this isn't an NTG machine, so it doesn't have Webroot. Not something that I control.
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I have all the updates etc. but haven't had any issues with crashing. Now if someone could please tell me how to stop this thing from going into sleep mode I would be happy
I however am only running standard software and Office 365 I am not running anything else extra. I don't even have a AV on it at this point (yeah, yeah I know I should be).
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@Minion-Queen Sleep mode can be controlled from System Preferences- Energy saver, or use Caffeine http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
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I didn't used to have too many problems early on but, the last 2-3 major OS versions have been more flaky and well tested well in a rush to get it out, and the problems were just never fixed. I had a lot of Kernel Panics, Crashes when just using chrome, safari or firefox (espcially if flash videos were playing) Trackpad lock ups (yet it would never look up when in windows or linux so it was a driver issue).
Unfortunately mine got smashed when I was leaving in the not for an emergency a few months back. So I don't have a mac anymore. It's not fixable due to the case bending so much it flexed the logic boards too much.
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@thecreativeone91
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Most instability issues I have stem from waking out of sleep mode while using a external monitor, mouse, and keyboard. I time to time have to unhook them and use the onboard keyboard to log in. I am not using any AV however, so that may be your issue. Is the mac virus threat real enough to warrent needing AV?
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@thecreativeone91 said:
I didn't used to have too many problems early on but, the last 2-3 major OS versions have been more flaky and well tested well in a rush to get it out, and the problems were just never fixed. I had a lot of Kernel Panics, Crashes when just using chrome, safari or firefox (espcially if flash videos were playing) Trackpad lock ups (yet it would never look up when in windows or linux so it was a driver issue).
Unfortunately mine got smashed when I was leaving in the not for an emergency a few months back. So I don't have a mac anymore. It's not fixable due to the case bending so much it flexed the logic boards too much.
Holy crap that is some serious damage!
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@s.hackleman said:
Most instability issues I have stem from waking out of sleep mode while using a external monitor, mouse, and keyboard. I time to time have to unhook them and use the onboard keyboard to log in. I am not using any AV however, so that may be your issue. Is the mac virus threat real enough to warrent needing AV?
Even just the laptop with nothing plugged in, once in a while there is no working keyboard.
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I haven't had trouble with the straight laptop but waking up from sleep mode with a mouse or keyboard. Every stinking time I have to unplug them and plug them back in.
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Were you doing anything intense on it when it happened? Details please
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@MattSpeller said:
Were you doing anything intense on it when it happened? Details please
Nope, browsing a web page and it just crashed.
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@scottalanmiller Weird. I don't have a ton of good things to say about them (in a mixed environment for business) but randomly crashing certainly isn't on my list of complaints.
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I rarely have any lockup issues with my MB unless I have recently changed added something that the OS didn't like. If you can disable the AV you will probably be golden. I don't run active AV though I do scan once a week with Clam. I have yet to find anything but BS tracking cookies that I haven't dumped yet.
Try running the built in Encryption and Firewall if you are able.
