Mac air overheating and won't re start ?

Mac book air is overheating and won't re start. Have left it for 2 hours but still warm and still dead. Is the battery going to blow?

I have not heard of this. Are you running extensive applications on it such as video or music editing software? Did you leave it on charge for those two hours, or did you remove the MagSafe adapater?
What I would do would be to remove the MagSafe adapter, let it cool. If you can get it going again, then I would leave things, and see if it happens again. If it does, I would reinstall Lion, and if you continue to have problems after that, I would take it to an Apple store to have a Genius look at it.

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I have the latest Mac Air 13" and I have a Seagate 500MB external hard disk I cant copy or Cut any files on the hard disk and I cant even delete any files. I have the settings as Read and Write in the get info tab. Please help

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thats the problem, its in MSDos (Fat) or NTFS for Windows.
Options.....
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2. get another HD, and format it for Mac OSX extended journaled.
FAT32 (File Allocation Table)
Read/Write FAT32 from both native Windows and native Mac OS X.
Maximum file size: 4GB.
Maximum volume size: 2TB
You can use this format if you share the drive between Mac OS X and Windows computers and have no files larger than 4GB.
NTFS (Windows NT File System)
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Maximum volume size: 256TB
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Maximum volume size: 8EiB
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Am I eligible for the free upgrade?
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You are mixing different issues. I will address Numbers.
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It sounds like you have gone from a cable router with the TC bridged to a cable modem with no router.. so the first device to connect pick up the IP address. Did the cable company give you the same model?? Check if it is a pure modem or a modem router.. and what the last one was.
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Also download the new utility.. with the old style.
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1482
If you happen to be on Lion.
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We've got 2 Macs in our house which keep dropping off the BT Infinity Broadband hub and won't connect again
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