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by mcella 4481 days ago
I've been recently (December) upgraded to a similar rMBP (2GHz i7, 16 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD), coming from an early 2008 MBP 15" it really feels great, everything is incredible fast, almost instantaneous, but... I'm experiencing two VERY annoying problems with OSX Mavericks:

1) 2/3 times a week the whole system freezes up and I need to reboot

2) once a week the sound output stops working and I need to reboot

Googling around it seems I'm not the only one experiencing these issues, too bad I can't go back to OSX Leopard.
3 comments
DanHulton 4481 days ago
The sound output thing I found to be an issue with headphones - it'd happen when I was on headphones, closed the mac, took out the headphones, then open the mac up and woke it up again.

Interestingly enough, I picked up a pair of bluetooth headphones and the issue has entirely ceased to reoccur.

Still frustrating as hell, though.

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mcella 4481 days ago
Thanks! that's exactly what I'm doing every day, I use headphones too and plug/unplug them very frequently. I also never shutdown the mac, I just put it to sleep by closing the lid.

I've been doing the same for years with the old MBP (regularly coming to 30 days uptime without any itch) and always considered this the best feature (bulletproof sleep) that keeps me from going back to linux.

PS Ironically enough, just after posting my first comment the mac freezed up again...

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mattgreenrocks 4481 days ago
What's amazing about newer machines + SSD + ample RAM is that you start to perceive software slowness more than ever. Whereas before I wouldn't care if my terminal took 0.3s to open a new tab, now I want to get it down to .05s (which, using zsh completions, doesn't seem to be possible).
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mcella 4481 days ago
So true!
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lemonberry 4481 days ago
I fixed the audio problem on my new Macbook Air by going to the Audio Midi Setup app in the Utilities folder. Click on Built in Output you may need to click the gear icon for "use this device for output" and/or unclick the checkboxes for mute.
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mcella 4481 days ago
Whoa, didn't know about Audio Midi Setup, I will look into it the next time it happens.

Thanks!

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