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My RSD (Random Shutdown) syndrome has been cured by the kind people of Microspot. As with many others, it was the heat-sink.

It was a very annoying feature to have but now it’s gone (I hope). I don’t really feel angry at Apple or any need to flame them too much, I did know when buying this that it is a rev. A machine and things are likely to go wrong. And so they did. Apple - or actually in my case Microspot, an authorized repairs centre - fixed the problem relatively quickly. Not as quickly as I was hoping for but quickly enough. Just had to stay at work a bit later at nights to finish thing there, that’s all. Not a big problem.

I’m aware that this might be a big problem to someone else, so, i’ll just list how the problem came about:

About two weeks ago, on a Thursday, the machine shutdown for the first time. Before this, it had been a sleep for about 2 hours, I did some browsing for about 15 minutes and then it went off, without any warning. Immediately after that it wouldn’t boot, had to wait about 15 minutes. After that it worked for next couple of days until it repeated on Saturday. Again, it worked Sunday but then on Monday, after being asleep for the night, it shutdown and wouldn’t come back at all.

Couple of times, when it did it, you could hear the fans go full blast for few seconds before it would shutdown.

Here’s couple of links to pages for more information on the problem:

-The Apple Files shows you how to test if you are affected or not (I can’t confirm this to work, only found this afterwards. For me it wasn’t really about pulling everything out of the CPU)

-Here’s a quite a long MacRumors.com thread on the issue

-Finally, if you have spare time, you can watch a MacBook randomly shutdown.

Mine is now safely back home, hope you guys never have to go through with this.

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p.s. Have you done any backups lately? You don’t always have to lose everything to be in trouble.