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  1. Drool. 🙂

    Keep us informed about how you solve the wake-up problem.

    We have two iMacs: one is Mom’s and one is for the kids. Both are 2006 vintage. Fingers crossed that both keep chugging along. The kids have a small one, but Mom’s has to be large due to her low vision. For her, the minute resolution doesn’t matter. At least I don’t think it does.

    Thanks for the useful report. Good to know that the memory is user-accessible. That could be a quite a cost savings.

    PS: What do you do that needs 32G?

    • Nothing that I know of requires 32G, but the MacBook Pro seems to regularly chug down and use all of it’s 16G, so I figured I’d better max out. I’m of the school that I max it out in every way possible when new, then the machine will last me more years before it’s outdated.

      The “Failure to Wake from Sleep” problem appears to be widespread with Apple not seeming to know how to fix it or the suggested fixes I find on the web not working. I’m not wild about having to lug this thing down to San Antonio for a Genius visit, but I’ll have to do it if this doesn’t resolve. I’ve turned off everything I can think of that would make it go to sleep, yet it seems to anyway. The only recourse is a hard reset, and that’s not good. The only other thing I can think of is to shut it down whenever I walk away. I’m not wild about that either.

    • I found someone who said a corrupted sleep image file might be the problem. Deleting the file is supposed to fix it if that’s the problem. Have done that. We’ll see.

  2. My iMac goes to sleep after, I don’t know, 30-minutes of inactivity but I just wake it with a mouse click.

    • Right. That’s what it’s supposed to do. That’s what all my other Macs do. This one? Not on my life. Next time I go to San Antonio, I’ll load it into it’s box, strap it to a dolly, and roll it into the Apple Store for them to see if they can figure it out.