Can you isolate the problem of whether the hard drive has a hardware problem? Can you disable Virtual Box, and just run normal Apple software? -- Gene
________________________________ From: Henry Baker <hbaker1@pipeline.com> To: math-fun <math-fun@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2014 6:39 PM Subject: Re: [math-fun] Apple bizarreness--write-once hard drive
TByte drives are really, really cheap at Costco.
Buy one & use it for Virtual Box, etc., at least for experimentation.
In this day & age, lack of HD space shouldn't ever be an issue.
Also, you can now get 64GByte flash drives that aren't quite as fast as HD's, but are fast enough for many porpoises.
At 06:22 PM 8/10/2014, Bill Gosper wrote:
Not exactly math-fun, but have mercy. I just had a fruitless phonechat with an Apple nonGenius. MacBook Pro freezes and requires powerbutton reboot when Virtual Box hangs well into loading XP. OK, Apple won't touch Virtual Box, but I hoped|conjectured it was just an ungraceful consequence of only 118G of unused hard drive, so I deleted many G and emptied the trash. Now there is only 117G free. While on the phone, I sacrificed an additional 2.85G Mathematica 8.0. Free shrank a little more.
Anybody?? --rwg
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