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English => News => Topic started by: Redaktion on April 08, 2026, 21:30:56

Title: Apple MacBooks slow down after 49 days due to "macOS time bomb"
Post by: Redaktion on April 08, 2026, 21:30:56
The Apple MacBook, iMac and Mac mini suffer from a macOS bug that effectively acts like a time bomb. After a timer reaches a certain value, new TCP connections can effectively no longer be established, causing many apps and websites to stop working.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBooks-slow-down-after-49-days-due-to-macOS-time-bomb.1269349.0.html
Title: Re: Apple MacBooks slow down after 49 days due to \
Post by: opckieran on April 09, 2026, 12:07:31
Pretty sure 4,294,967,295 nanoseconds is roughly equal to just under 4.3 seconds actually.
Title: Re: Apple MacBooks slow down after 49 days due to \
Post by: jojoba on April 09, 2026, 13:37:57
Quote from: opckieran on April 09, 2026, 12:07:31Pretty sure 4,294,967,295 nanoseconds is roughly equal to just under 4.3 seconds actually.
Pretty sure it isn't... But it also isn't 49 days (which would be over 4 millions seconds...Therefore I think the number in the article should be in miliseconds and not nanoseconds...
Title: Re: Apple MacBooks slow down after 49 days due to \
Post by: JohnM on April 09, 2026, 14:46:59
Opckieran IS correct; similarly, one billion nanoseconds is exactly one second. Jojoba is right in saying the units should be milliseconds.
49 days =1000*60*60*24*49
Title: Re: Apple MacBooks slow down after 49 days due to \
Post by: Watchful on April 09, 2026, 19:34:18
It's nice that Mac OS has finally caught up to the sophistication level that windows was at Windows 95.
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