“A large number of MacBook Pro owners running OS X El Capitan are reporting widespread system freezes since installing the 10.11.4 update to Apple’s Mac OS,” Tim Hardwick reports for MacRumors.
“Hundreds of MacRumors forum members have been posting to a dedicated thread to discuss the issue, which spans 20 pages at the time of writing,” Hardwick reports. “The problem appears to be concentrated on 13-inch Retina MacBook Pros (Early 2015) running 10.11.4.”
Hardwick reports, “Users report that their system becomes totally unresponsive at seemingly random times, with no way to regain access to their Mac other than to force a hard reboot. ”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Our sources tell us that Apple is aware of this issue and is working on a fix. 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina display (Early 2015) users may want to forgo updating to OS X 10.11.4 for the time being.
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