IMac Freezes, Anyone Know How to Unfreeze?
I don't know about anyone else but I am getting really f'ing tired of my brand new iMac freezing up after installing Lion. I know good and well that Apple knows about this but nothing from them at all. Anyway, enough of my ********.
Does anyone know how to unfreeze it without cycling power? For the record, Snow Leopard never did this. Is Lion going to become the Apple version of Vista? C'mon Apple, fix this already. You sure can tell Steve is on sick leave.
Initially get spinning wheel
Them mouse moves cursor freely but can't click on anything. Can't force quit from tHe dock as it doesn't pull up. Only thing I have found to do is a a reboot. Very freaking Windows like.
Try a reset by pressing the home and sleep buttons until you see the Apple logo, ignoring the slider. Takes about 5-15 secs of button holding and you won't lose any data or settings.
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