[arghIdontwantto]

I have no clue what you are doing, but I have never seen this happen by just clicking a textfield (Mac user since 2005).

I have my gripes with Apple, but to say everytime over the last 10 years, just clicking a textfield you get the beachball makes me doubt you. That or you are the unluckiest person I know that always touches a broken mac.

[meric]

I have seen it happen with new macs. Sometimes spotlight indexing is running and it slows down. But it goes away after a day of use for me.

[arghIdontwantto]

Fair enough... but still weird I never saw it (and I end up reinstalling my system quite regularly) with the more than 8 mac machines I've own in the last few years (plus a couple from the wife)