Freezing during use ever since upgrade to Lion

My Macbook doesn't freeze on login. It doesn't freeze after waking up from sleep.
It works fine and then after a bit of use - it freezes.
I can detect no consistent pattern to the freezes.
I have gone to NEVER having to reboot (or whatever the mac equivalent is) to having to reboot about 6 times a day. It is like I am back on a PC
I have the same amount of apps open that I did when I was on Snow Leopard and it never froze.
Did I say Never? I meant never, ever, ever to infinity, never froze.
Now it freezes quite often. Love my MAC!!! Not loving the freezes ever since the Lion upgrade.
Apparently freezing is happening quite a bit to other upgraded Macs. Don't know what the deal is but PLEASE FIX THIS APPLE!!!!

Please be more specific.   "Freeze" means different things to different people.
Please compare your experience to mine, observed in 10.7.x on a quad-core iMac:   I'm doing "ordinary" stuff and all of a sudden the entire display --actually the main display and on an attached monitor-- freezes... stays exactly as it was some instant before. The mouse pointer cannot be moved by any means, including plugging in a new mouse. There's nothing to do but shut down and reboot. Reboot always succeeds, everything is normal -- until the next time. Which is usually several weeks away, but in one case, the next day.
Under the technical hood, the system is unresponsive on the LAN, doesn't even respond to a ping. And afterwards, I've found no trace of these incidents in the Console log --as would occur with ordinary kernel panic and many other failures, I guess. These are all situations in which the Mac system realizes it can't continue and tries to sign-off as gracefully as possible, more-or-less "softly" crashing.   Note: as far as I can recall this iMac has kernel-panicked exactly once since I bought it.
I've started keeping a log of these hard crashes. The last two occurred while I was browsing in Firefix.   If this pattern repeats, I'll definitely want to look into that. But for technical reasons it seems very, very unlikely that an application program can hard-crash a Mac.
Other than a Firefox problem my mostly superstitious suspicion is that I should have bought the highest-price RAM upgrade rather than the medium-priced set I added after installing 10.7 <grin> Memory failure would explain the problem, I think.

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http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=goflex-mac-install-softw are&vgnextoid=77002aaf8cc5d210VgnVCM1000001a48090aRCRD
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There are two possibilities, 1)it is a software problem which will be fixed.
2)It is a hardware problem, and youll have to take it to an iStore.
BUT there is something you should know.
If your under apple care, its free.
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Hello,
I have tried everything but I can't seem to come up with a solution. Problems have arose ever since upgrading to Lion on my early-2008 Macbook Unibody. I have seen many users on this board saying that Lion has broken their iSight as well. Here are my issues.
iSight
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• If Apple's http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2090
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   the correct "reset" procedure?) continue with the following.
• Use Disk Utility to repair permissions and then
   download and apply the 10.7.2 Combo Update:
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• Repair permissions again immediately following the system restart
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Properly applying the Combo version of updates
can sometimes correct problems like yours.
Message was edited by: EZ Jim

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Hi,
When you start Messages fro the first time you are asked for an Apple ID
When this is verified and entered it appears in Messages Menu > Preference > Accounts and is Enabled.
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You are saying Buddies can see you as On Line which implies they are still sending to your AIM based Names (@Mac.com is a valid AIM Screen Name)
I am not sure from your post if you are trying to iMessage their email IDs thinking they are Apple IDs and that they are using Messages as well.
There is no Buddy list for iMessages side
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Please help - computer is crashing & freezing ever since upgrade to Leopard

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Thanks!
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panic(cpu 0 caller 0x001A9C68): Kernel trap at 0x0040de14, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x000002c0, CR3: 0x0108a000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x06745c00, EBX: 0x2e583bf0, ECX: 0x06745ccc, EDX: 0x00000000
CR2: 0x000002c0, EBP: 0x2e583bd8, ESI: 0x04866d00, EDI: 0x06745c00
EFL: 0x00010206, EIP: 0x0040de14, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x01880010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace (CPU 0), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x2e5839e8 : 0x12b4f3 (0x45b13c 0x2e583a1c 0x1335e4 0x0)
0x2e583a38 : 0x1a9c68 (0x464700 0x40de14 0xe 0x463eb0)
0x2e583b18 : 0x1a038d (0x2e583b30 0xb6dcfb0 0x2e583bd8 0x40de14)
0x2e583b28 : 0x40de14 (0xe 0x48 0x2e580010 0x140010)
0x2e583bd8 : 0x7474b9 (0x6745c00 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x2e583c48 : 0x747547 (0x6745c00 0x4866d00 0x9a00780 0x19eb5b)
0x2e583c68 : 0x5db609 (0x4866d00 0x4 0x46 0x136b31)
0x2e583cc8 : 0x5db679 (0x5a30600 0x4866d00 0x2 0x2)
0x2e583d08 : 0x34773463 (0x5a30600 0x4866d00 0x2 0x2)
0x2e583d28 : 0x60b211 (0x5a30600 0x4866d00 0xe0004051 0x1f)
0x2e583d98 : 0x85b117 (0x3c29000 0x3d88900 0xe0004051 0x1f)
0x2e583e38 : 0x85c047 (0x3c29000 0x3e79488 0xe0004051 0x0)
0x2e583e88 : 0x85c1b4 (0x3c29000 0x3e785c0 0xc954252c 0x7f33)
0x2e583ec8 : 0x6078f7 (0x3c29000 0x3e8 0x53f69c 0x3e10a40)
0x2e583f28 : 0x424cb8 (0x3c29000 0x3d68b00 0x53f0c0 0x1)
0x2e583f78 : 0x13eed2 (0x3d68b00 0x3d68919 0x0 0x0)
Backtrace continues...
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass(2.0.4)@0x34772000->0x3477bfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(2.0.5)@0x5d5000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.2.7)@0x606000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.5.5)@0x72d000
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient(2.0.5)@0x745000->0x74afff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(2.0.5)@0x5d5000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOStorageFamily(1.5.5)@0x72d000
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily(2.0.5)@0x5d5000->0x5edfff
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI(3.2.5)@0x851000->0x862fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.5)@0x636000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.2.7)@0x606000
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(3.2.7)@0x606000->0x62efff
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9G55
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.6.0: Mon Nov 24 17:37:00 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.9.59~1/RELEASE_I386
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I'd suggest doing this:
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Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
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Exactly what files are you trying to open?
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I encourage you to contact Apple with feedback
I have taken the following actions:-
Provided feedback to Apple viahttp://www.apple.com/feedback/aperture.html
Provided feedback to Apple viahttp://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
Submitted a bug/enhancement request via my free Apple Developer account
Written to pretty much every mainstream Mac publication
Encouraged every poster, like yourself, to raise this with Apple in your own words
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Terence Devlin
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Re: Is Iphoto gone ? i want it back!
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Freezing during use ever since upgrade to Lion

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