[X4U] imac and beach ball

[alexandre]

ok. but on the other hand i'm doing stuff that previously wasn't  
provoking this quite of behaviour: using safari while installing  
office2008 and dragging a few windows. i'm sure now that i'm getting  
the beach ball when a program is accessing the hard drive (copy,  
install, …)

i'll be taking the imac back to my dealer and requesting a new drive,  
i think it's the only solution at this point.

a big thank you to all who helped. regards, alexandre

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> On May 20, 2008, at 12:39 AM, alexandre wrote:
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>> randy, one last question: would this kind of behaviour be "normal"  
>> if i were dragging windows and opening safari WHILE installing  
>> software off of an external firewire drive?
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> The rotating beachball is a "wait cursor."  It is not at all  
> necessarily a sign that there is a problem.  It comes up whenever  
> you have to wait a pre-determined amount of time before the  
> requested function will be finished.  So, if you are performing  
> several actions at the same time, and they will take some time to  
> complete, it is completely normal for the rotating beachball to show  
> up.
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