It does have a tendency to overheat. I've got an ice pack I put in the vicinity of the fan intakes that seems to help.
Yep! Except for the "It's up! BACK UP EVERYTHING!" I usually do a fresh restart after a crash recovery or after installing software or updates whether it asks for one or not. The computer gets shut down completely when I'm not going to be using it for several hours, so I hope that's keeping its little brain tidier.
It hasn't crashed again since the PRAM zap yet (*knocks wood*), but I also ran MacScan and removed a bunch of tracking cookies, ran OnyX and got through the maintenance cycle. It gave me a drive error report, so I rebooted from the install disk (which took far too many tries) and ran Disk utility which repaired something on the drive that had the wrong number of somethings, and also repaired a LOT of permissions.
It seems to be stable so far, but it's very nervous-making, and dealing with all this I couldn't get at a nearly complete job application I've been working on the past few days and missed the posting deadline. Ugh.
The other computer I managed to lock myself out of everything useful by forgetting the Admin password, resetting it, and then getting Keychain popups for the old forgotten password every time I tried to do anything, but I think I've got that fixed now.
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Yep! Except for the "It's up! BACK UP EVERYTHING!" I usually do a fresh restart after a crash recovery or after installing software or updates whether it asks for one or not. The computer gets shut down completely when I'm not going to be using it for several hours, so I hope that's keeping its little brain tidier.
It hasn't crashed again since the PRAM zap yet (*knocks wood*), but I also ran MacScan and removed a bunch of tracking cookies, ran OnyX and got through the maintenance cycle. It gave me a drive error report, so I rebooted from the install disk (which took far too many tries) and ran Disk utility which repaired something on the drive that had the wrong number of somethings, and also repaired a LOT of permissions.
It seems to be stable so far, but it's very nervous-making, and dealing with all this I couldn't get at a nearly complete job application I've been working on the past few days and missed the posting deadline. Ugh.
The other computer I managed to lock myself out of everything useful by forgetting the Admin password, resetting it, and then getting Keychain popups for the old forgotten password every time I tried to do anything, but I think I've got that fixed now.