Hi Tim, > My daughter Macbook seem to have given up the ghost, while we can it > to boot to the desktop 1 in 3 attempts, it is very slow.
Could it be the hard drive having trouble? Perhaps an important bit of data is proving hard to read and the drive only manages it sometimes, after many retries. On Linux I'd used smartctl(8) to ask the drive for its internal statistics but I don't know about Mac OS X. Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
