I’ve never really heard of this, so I’ve decided to call it the Mac Dimmed Dialog of Death. Happened to me for the first time today since I got my Mac, 14 months ago. I was always told that Mac OS X also crashes on occasion, never believed it till now.
I was working on an image in Photoshop with a dozen or so other applicaitons in the background (normal usage for me) when suddenly the screen becomes dark (it was translucent, I could still see my desktop in the background) with a dark gray dialog in the middle which says “You need to restart your computer. Please press the Power button for a few seconds”, in four languages.
On restarting I get some indecipherable report which I chose to send to Apple. Since then all has been working well. Hope it continues to!
Ritwik | 20-Apr-06 at 1:29 pm | Permalink
So mac does crash…..muhuhaaa
Casablanca | 20-Apr-06 at 7:27 pm | Permalink
Oops. So what they say is true. Every machine will go wrong at some point of time…
Anshul | 20-Apr-06 at 7:35 pm | Permalink
Yeah. It’s still a computer. They’re just very sophisticated idiots.
AC | 20-Apr-06 at 9:33 pm | Permalink
I’ve seen that on a friend’s comp..Kinda rare though
Alexander Repty | 30-Apr-06 at 7:06 pm | Permalink
I’ve had this on occassion, but in most cases it was due to a hardware failure (i.e. bad RAM).