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I was trying out a test machine, and I don't know its history. I will exchange it and try again. Edit: I haven't *heard* the fan, but my environment is somewhat noisy, and I've never heard anyone else's fan either, compared to the cyclone generator on my hold x86 laptop. Thanks everyone...

First, one of the gcc tests I did last night froze the machine in under a minute after I'd just been clicking around in the UI for a lengthy period of time. Second, the following test uses 100% CPU and ran for over 5 hours without a problem: while (1) echo blah blah blah > /dev/null end...

It's sitting on a hard surface. What fans?

I'm testing a Mac Powerbook G4 as a potential replacement for my linux laptop. At the moment, MacOS X keeps crashing on me. I can crash it as follows: create a small file test.c containing: #include <stdio.h> int main() { printf ("sizeof(int)=%d\n",sizeof(int)); } and then repeatedly...

I'm a new Mac user, just trying out a G4 powerbook because all the local Mac users seem to love them. So far, the machine seems to be crashing every few hours at most. No way can I use this for real work. I'm still trying to solve my G4 problems, but I'm sorely tempted to give up and go...