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    Weird semi-freezing with Macs?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by akg18281, Jul 17, 2010.

  1. akg18281

    akg18281 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello everyone,

    I have the last generation macbook pro 15 inch, and I'm getting a weird issue with a slight delay in typing coming up on the screen.

    It comes in short bursts, but it seems like when it does happen the computer will hang for about a second or two and then display everything I typed. The touchpad and all processes work, but it seems like somethings up with the keyboard buffer?

    I reboot about once a month, but even after a reboot I still get this issue. I've tried to check online, but haven't seen anything quite like this.
     
    akg18281, Jul 17, 2010
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  2. Xhibit

    Xhibit Notebook Evangelist

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    What programs your use using when it happens? What browser do you use?
     
    Xhibit, Jul 18, 2010
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  3. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    When did this start happening? I remember something about keyboard lag with the MB/MBPs in 2007, which was fixed by a subsequent firmware update. Of course changes are there's a process running in the background that's causing this lag.
     
    Budding, Jul 19, 2010
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    AznFlamer Notebook Consultant

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    Are you using a CPU monitoring program? You can use it to check if your CPU usage is going up during the hangs.
     
    AznFlamer, Jul 20, 2010
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  5. H.A.L. 9000

    H.A.L. 9000 Occam's Chainsaw

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    I had a somewhat similar issue, and I solved it with replacing the HDD. Mine was a 5400RPM 250GB Seagate. I noticed at times of lag there were a lot of writes to the HDD so I figured a faster drive would solve it... So I replaced it with a 7200RPM Hitachi, and it cleared right up. Haven't seen the problem since, and I'm running on a cloned image of the Seagate.
     
    H.A.L. 9000, Jul 20, 2010
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