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I'm getting increasingly angry at this Beta release Apple sold us all.
Am I the only one experiencing random finder crashes? Literally in the MIDDLE of just typing a sentence on a forum I was on this morning, everything stopped. No more typing. I could move the mouse around, but it wouldn't let me click or select anything. I couldn't do anything but force a reboot. I had a similar crash this morning in the middle of drawing a curve in Illustrator, one in the middle of opening a new browser window, and one when opening up a folder from the dock. Yeah, that's FOUR CRASHES in one day. So far.
Also, when I'm scrolling around in messages, I get all sorts of weird artifacts in the screens -- like polygons shearing in a bad video game, only the polygons are parts of the screen/window I'm in. I also get an occasional pink shadow (square, solid in one corner with a sort of fading gradient toward the opposite corner) popping up from time to time randomly.
On top of the headache over trying to get Mail to work properly again, I'm now convinced that Apple has rushed an unfinished release out too early.
(I think they've gone more than just putting Intel inside the Mac -- they've now firmly adopted the Microsoft system-marketing mentality.)
Does anyone know a fix to keep the damned thing from crashing? I've gotten so paranoid I save every 30 seconds, but when working on posts I am living in fear that a long post such as this may just disappear with the next crash, and I'll have to start all over again. (again.)
Tony

Find outthe graphics card you are using and do a search on Leopard forums for > graphics problems - it may be a matter of reinstalling the drivers.
You can also search for the graphics card name.
One example of a similar issue
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5884566&#5884566

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