My Macbook pro freezes for no reason? please help

Hi i have started to have a big annoyance with my mac. It will freeze itunes will stop playing for 10 or 20 seconds, the loading circle will show up, then eveerything will go back to normal. This occurs every 10 to 15 minutes i am surfing the internet or listening to music. Any suggestions to solve problem??

Hi All.
I had the same problem with my MacBook Pro 13" 2.26. I bought my MBP on July of this year is the new model.
I was using the leopard and this problem happen all days at each 5 minutes, so I updated to SnowLeopard build 1.6.1, I think this problem would be fixed, but this is with same frequency, each 5 minutes it happen.
My cursor change to ˜rainbow circle" and my computer freeze, the memory is not full, cpu is about 2%, so the pc was "idle".
Do know if exist any solution to it?
Apple is replacing this machine?
This is a hardware or software fail?
This problem can be resolved by warranty?
Thanks

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I have a Macbook Pro with a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB of memory (1067 MHz DDR3), running OS X 10.8.4.
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9/15/13 7:39:25.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 11486 [SleepServicesD]
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9/15/13 8:39:24.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 11492 [cfprefsd]
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9/15/13 8:39:24.000 PM kernel[0]: memorystatus_thread: idle exiting pid 11491 [cfprefsd]
9/15/13 8:41:16.000 PM kernel[0]: disk0s2: I/O error.
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From what I can tell, it starts to freeze around x:40, and then it appears to start working again when the first I/O error is listed. It works for maybe 10 seconds or so, then freezes up again until the second I/O error, at which point it is fine for an hour.
Does anybody have any ideas about what I can do? Thanks in advance for any help.

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