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Listed below are some useful tips to try when the spinning wait cursor appears, plus how to avoid it returning: Wait cursors are triggered by applications performing extensive processes. Officially itвЂ™s called the вЂspinning wait cursorвЂ™ but hereвЂ™s a list of other names given: Mac users can relate to how you feel as weвЂ™ve all been there and experienced the frustration at some point. If you have long haired pets or smoke near your computer, additional cleaning may be necessary.YouвЂ™re in the middle of using your Mac whether itвЂ™s to type up an important document or using an application and the dreaded beach ball of death decides to make an appearance! With the computer turned off, use a can of compressed air to blow the vents clean. Check the air vents on the computer to ensure they have no obstructions.

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On the filesystem level, try a filesystem check (fsck) using an OS install DVD if possible. Listen carefully to the drive for a high pitched whine or grinding noise. Use a SMART utility to check its stats and a benchmark utility to check its speed. Read or write errors can manifest as long delays even though the storage device appears to work. Utilities like JDiskReport can help you locate large folders and files. If it's less than 20%, consider deleting unnecessary files, moving seldom used files to another drive, or upgrading to a higher capacity drive. Check the available space on your boot drive.

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If it is consistently low, then a memory upgrade might be an inexpensive solution. Use Activity Monitor to determine the amount of free (unused) memory. Use Activity Monitor or similar program to see if any program or service is using a large percentage of processor time or hard drive activity. That said, the most likely causes of this symptom are:

Bottom line, mistakes happen even in the best engineering teams and manufacturing facilities. Or the capacitor plague caused by bad electrolyte recipes. Or the lithium ion battery fires caused by metal contamination during assembly. Consider the failures of adhesive thermal compound pads in numerous laptop brands. Ditto with dust, grime, pet hair, tobacco smoke, etc. For example, MacBook Pro laptops placed on a soft, deformable surface like a couch or futon will overheat because the heatsink vents on the back near the screen hinge can become blocked. Unfortunately, this problem started to harass me only after 90 days.:-( or I could have gone back to Apple support (I do not have a warranty anymore).Дoes anyone have pointers to what could be amiss.hard drive, memory, etc.Д®ngineers cannot anticipate every environment nor every possible failure mode.

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Although I asked them to replace only the base (which had cracked along the edges for no reason that I can think of), they mentioned replacing something else (heat sink.or something to that effect).

Interestingly this started to appear after I replaced my Macbook base through Apple support. I have even reformatted and reinstalled my Macbook recently. The strange thing is that on some days the Macbook works just fine (statistically, I use the same applications everyday), but on some days, the spinning wheel appears every 5 minutes (very frustrating). It seemed to correct the problem but not entirely (I feel the root cause is elsewhere). Since I noticed that my Macbook was running pretty hot, I tried the Smart Fan control app.

I have noticed that the current application that I am working on (Safari or Microsoft Word or FireFox or even Preview) shows up as 'not responding' in the Activity monitor when the I get the spinning wheel. When this recently happened, I opened up the Activity monitor to see if I am running out of memory, but the Free memory is around 300 MB (out of 1GB). There isn't any correlation with the size and type of applications running. I've been having the same problem on my Macbook Intel Core 2 Duo (July-2007) but only recently spinning wheel appears randomly. The fan speed trick did not work in my case.