Week 19 Macbook with hope… well almost…
Hello!
I have a week 19 white MB, 2.0 GHz, 1 GB RAM, 60 GB Drive. I purchased mine from an Apple store on May 20, 2006 it started experiencing the RSS about August 10, 2006. The first time I experienced it was during the use of Apple’s Backup utility to a network drive shared from a Linux box via Samba. I was concerned that this was causing the problem. I believe the 10.4.7 update came around this time as well. I thought it might be fixed when I saw that some AFP deadlocks were addressed in the udpate. Then it happened while in I was using Entourage and so I started logging it in a notebook so I could post it if others started having these issues. Here’s some personal experience of RSS: Note, all time between these logs there were no issues and this MB is plugged in and runs all day/night in my office which is at about 75 degrees F all the time.
 8/14/06: (9AM) Using entourage, crash, let sit for few minutes power up, found -82 in /var/log/system.log as shutdown cause.
 8/15/06: (9AM) Using entourage, some online banking, left, came back MB was off, let sit for a few minutes, restarted 9:08 AM.  (10 PM) On battery working 1.5 hours (outside office), went to publish iWeb to .Mac and crash, let sit, fire back up, re-publish all was good.
 8/19/06: Using iWeb, published to .Mac, crash, had 3 back-to-back crashes this time.
 8/23/06: SMC firmware installed for fan behavior. After this update I could actually hear the fan running now, I’ve never heard my fan up to this point. My CPU cores ran much cooler after this update (about 20 degrees F cooler) also my HD ran about 20 degrees F cooler.Â
 8/27/06: (7 AM) Came into office this morning and found system off.
 8/27/06: (6:20 PM) Came into office again and found system off.
 I’ve been without issues since 8/27/06 and it’s 8/31/06 now.
 I was so sure the firmware helped but when it (RSS) came back 4 days later I was bummed. I’m a long time PC user and this is my first Mac (Well, second if you count my Apple IIe). I’m hesitant to recommend the portables to anyone at this point until Apple determines the cause. I am eye-balling a Mac Pro (Quad Processor) though to get some serious video work done, that thing looks like it completely rocks!
I’ll keep you all posted on my experiences with the RSS. Hopefully the firmware helped some others out there…
