The Apple thread

[piku]

If I have a photo or something complex as a background image, occasionally my Mac draws random single pixels the wrong colour in the image. These go away if I move the screen hinge slightly, or tap the back of the lid.

[Kelloggs]

This is a little perturbing; I've just (like, about half-an-hour ago) kicked off a Software Update, one item for Security, one for Safari and one for AirPort.

It's restarted, given me a Starfield backdrop and a progress box saying "Installing 3 items" and...

... it's not moved from about 3% complete since then.

Help!

Hmm. The Safari update, as it came in, didn't want to install, and killing off the wedged Installer corrupted Safari. *whimper*

Fixable, though. I dragged Safari.app to the Trash and re-downloaded the (latest, pre-patched) full version. Workee now.

[PVB]

This is a little perturbing; I've just (like, about half-an-hour ago) kicked off a Software Update, one item for Security, one for Safari and one for AirPort.

It's restarted, given me a Starfield backdrop and a progress box saying "Installing 3 items" and...

... it's not moved from about 3% complete since then.

Help!

Hmm. The Safari update, as it came in, didn't want to install, and killing off the wedged Installer corrupted Safari. *whimper*

Fixable, though. I dragged Safari.app to the Trash and re-downloaded the (latest, pre-patched) full version. Workee now.

I had a slight issue with that update, in that the reboot/restart took over five minutes to go from spinny circle-thing to the desktop.

Worked fine once it got there, but was a bit worrying up until then.

[Atty]

I've been having a weird problem with my mac, where the items I click on on the desktop keep moving down to the bottom, for no obvious reason.
For example, say I click on jpeg that's fairly high up on the desktop, near the MacintoshHD - when I click on it, it will stay highlighted but will suddenly rearrange itself to be right at the bottom of all the items on the desktop. It's annoying to say the least.

[pogo]

I've been having a weird problem with my mac, where the items I click on on the desktop keep moving down to the bottom, for no obvious reason.
For example, say I click on jpeg that's fairly high up on the desktop, near the MacintoshHD - when I click on it, it will stay highlighted but will suddenly rearrange itself to be right at the bottom of all the items on the desktop. It's annoying to say the least.

This sounds like mouse/input device problem. A previous optical mouse would sometimes teleport it's pointer across the screen, disrupting whatever I was doing. The fix was to change the surface under the mouse, from shiny to matt. Lighting conditions, e.g. whether a light shines on it, may also make a difference.

A laptop touch pad can exhibit similar behaviour if touched by two fingers at once - the fix is to adopt better posture so other fingers don't drag on the pad. But it sounds more like an optical mouse problem.

[WiteWulf]

If I have a photo or something complex as a background image, occasionally my Mac draws random single pixels the wrong colour in the image. These go away if I move the screen hinge slightly, or tap the back of the lid.

That's not good, dude...it still under warranty?

[kalmar]

Fixable, though. I dragged Safari.app to the Trash and re-downloaded the (latest, pre-patched) full version. Workee now.

I had a slight issue with that update, in that the reboot/restart took over five minutes to go from spinny circle-thing to the desktop.

Worked fine once it got there, but was a bit worrying up until then.

Yeah, mine took a while to restart after that update too. All seems to be OK though. I wonder what the airport update was about?

[Col]

Just recently started using Safari instead of Firefox on my PC. Pisses all over it, so much so that I've deleted Firefox altogether.

[Stone]

Since people are posting problems they're having:

When I rename a file on the desktop, I used to be able to click it, hit Enter, and the filename would turn into a text-entry box for me to rename it. Now when I do it, the text just disappears. I can type something blind and the file'll get renamed, but I used to be able to see while I was renaming something, and now I can't

Stone

[piku]

If I have a photo or something complex as a background image, occasionally my Mac draws random single pixels the wrong colour in the image. These go away if I move the screen hinge slightly, or tap the back of the lid.

That's not good, dude...it still under warranty?

I assume it is. Had it since the start of February.

[WiteWulf]

It sounds to me like the connector between the screen and the rest of the machine is a bit ropey. I'd be inclined to get it repaced...

[Cloudane]

Just recently started using Safari instead of Firefox on my PC. Pisses all over it, so much so that I've deleted Firefox altogether.

Hehe... ironic... I've started using Firefox on my Mac and have taken Safari off the dock. My misery of random beachball fits is over. Just wish I could replace it on the iPhone too, it crashes more often than Windows 95 on that thing...

[piku]

It sounds to me like the connector between the screen and the rest of the machine is a bit ropey. I'd be inclined to get it repaced...

Where does it go back to? Apple or PC World (who I bought it from)?

Oh, and does it matter that I've upgraded the RAM with some none-Apple stuff?

[piku]

There's one of those Genius Bar doodads in the Meadowhell Centre in Sheffield. I think I'll book my Mac in there so I can prod it and say "look... it does this when I move the screen hinge".

[WiteWulf]

Good idea...make sure you take your warranty and receipt with you. They might even be nice enough to replace it for you there and then.

Do a Carbon Copy Cloner backup of the whole machine onto and external drive, first, and take your 3rd party RAM out, of course.