Archive for July, 2010

Multiple Problems: No Serial #, Time Machine Error
Monday, July 26th, 2010

Case #166 880 364, revisited Since Tuesday, it seems that Time Machine had been working, but I got an error today. It seems to be fixed after ejecting and remounting disk. In initiating this call (thought it would be a different case #), discovered that the serial number is missing from Apple|About this Mac. Will [...]

Follow Up on VERY slow system
Sunday, July 11th, 2010

Case #166 880 364, revisited Back from Austin and having the same problem on my desktop: Apple Mail takes up 1+GB of RAM and the whole system is slow. It takes minutes to respond to a mouse click. Force quit mail and RAM is freed up. Processor use is background, yet can’t use system normally. [...]