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I have a 13 inch MacBook with 4gb RAM. What I am doing is being on the Internet and/or using a photo editing program. There is no definite rhyme or reason. Sometimes it crashes when I'm on FR (which is a low graphics site) sometimes it crashes on a graphics intensive site.

As far as what kind of crash it is — it's the kind where the little rainbow wheel comes up and the mouse, keyboard and touchpad are unresponsive and I have to hold down the start button for 10 seconds to restart.

I've taken it in to the Mac bar 3 times and each time they seem to find some little thing that needs to be updated or some tweak. What ends up happening is that my Mac does what it wants to do it seems and I just live with the problem. It's no worse than my old PC, but certainly not better.

In fact, it locked up as I was doing this post a few minutes ago. At the time I had FR open and Drudge and a Flicker page. Seized up, shut down, and restart.....same ol, same ol.

Any suggestions, I'm happy to take them

As far as what kind of crash it is — it's the kind where the little rainbow wheel comes up and the mouse, keyboard and touchpad are unresponsive and I have to hold down the start button for 10 seconds to restart.

I had similar problems with my iBook. The problem turned out to be my ISP. New ISP; problem solved.

I've taken it in to the Mac bar 3 times and each time they seem to find some little thing that needs to be updated or some tweak.

Something is not right and you need to get it fixed. The Genius bar should be able to diagnose and get it done. Try that again, and stop the frustration.

You have something abnormal going on for sure. I have a Macbook, 2 gigs RAM and it’s locked up maybe 3 times in 2+ years. I use mine for studio recording and it never lets me down a single time.

Gonna guess you have a ram issue or a hard drive issue. Something definitely ain’t as it should be.