Force shutdown on OS X

hi, did anyone ever force shutdown an OS X based laptop?
will it cause any harm - hardware wise?

please also post a reply stating that if it is often/rarely/once/never (you don't have to if you want to but it would help )

thank you very much

 

During the 1 year and a bit that I have had this Macbook, I have had about half a dozen kernel panics, two of which was caused by Parallels booting into Windows (I know it's not Windows' fault, but just though I'd mention it ).

My Macbook's still working fine. No visible issues yet (except for that piece of plastic on the case that came off, but Apple replaced the case in a week).

 

yea. every once in a while itll freeze or something similar, and ill have to force it. doesnt do anything tho.

 

WOW ( ), OS X freezes more than i have ever imagined! my CoreDuo macbook never froze on me. my Santa Rosa Macbook Pro did though... i presume it was video driver issues (always freezes when resizing MPEG format videos on quicktime).

 

Mine threw kernel panics when I put the Sonnet SATA card in my G5 tower until I realised the firmware wasn't up to date. I've been good since I got that updated.

My old G4 though, that thing had a 1 year uptime once. It never crashed on me.

 

I've had about two kernel panics. Safari, however, does seem to crash on me every now and then...I'm annoyed at that, as I do enjoy using Safari but if its always crashing I would prefer to use something that crashes less. Hope Apple fixes that.

 

mine does not do that kernel panic things! it just freeze.. i leave it on for more than half an hour and its still frozen.. no kernel panic message, just frozen!

 

don't you use opera/firefox sam?

 

That's weird, wobble...have you tried doing all the troubleshooting stuff?

No, I don't use those, wobble...I use Safari normally, I've gotten used to the interface. However, occasionally I do use Camino.

 

I've only had one kernel packet in almost a year, but my MBP freezes probably once to twice month. It's usually trying to wake it up from sleep, or a memory leak from something like FF or Transmission.

 

I've had a lot of kernal panics, but it's mainly to do with hardware(plugging in/unplugging)

Now that Modly mentioned updating the firmwave, I should try that, never thought of that.

But basically I've had no bad affects, firefox remembers what sites I was on and unison keeps my queue, so I'm happy.

Though I hope they fix them in 5.2

 

Only 1 kernal panic for me, and then it wouldn't turn on anymore. Resetting PRAM, and no problems since then!

That was about 3 months ago?

And like Sam said, yes safari freezes sometimes. (Especially running Youtube I find...)

 

I had to do a shutdown once, or twice thanks to iTunes. It just became totally unresponsive.

 

Had my first Kernel panic. I was wondering what was going on!?!? Safari stopped working, lost wifi connection. I was transferring a movie to my Apple TV while downloading a torrent and surfing the Internet. Hopefully, Kernel Panics won't happen again, but it's a computer and anything can happen from time to time.

 

I though i almost had to. This morning i was trying to login to facebook which was having problems for me and i clicked a tutorial for Final cut studio and i got the rainbow colored beach ball. Good thing it only lasted 10 seconds. Damn this thing is nice and fast. (see sig for specs)

 

ive had my mbp since july and ive only had to force shutdown a few times ONLY because i was using a horrible program that wasnt nicely made for os x. (it has been uninstalled since the 3rd time its crashed). thats the only time it would freeze up!

 

Yes I had to force shutdown. But it was on windows side (bootcamp).
I guess Microsoft is known for this. =)

 

both aperture and firefox crash on me from time to time... usually when I am doing more intensive work.

If I am just surfing, listening to music, writing, it pretty much never crashes.

When I am really cranking it... it hangs (spinning wheel) quite a lot and crashes occassionally.

 

is kernel panic the one with the grey out screen and turn off/restart notice dialog?

my one is just.... frozen... anyone else has similar problem?

 

I get the grey screen about once a week. It's annoying that Linux is such a hassle to install on a MacBook, because I find it so much more stable than OS X.