Brand new MacBook Pro crashing?

Stack trace of MacOS X kernel panic:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcgrof/sets/105492/

A buddy purchased a brand spanking new MacBook pro for about $2,000.00. On its second day it crashed. This video shows the crash.

Later on we booted the MacBook Pro in single user mode (Apple + S while booting). We noticed the horrible security defaults to throw you into a root shell with unrestricted privileges! Anyway,then we ran the script to complete the boot process manually (sh /etc/rc), and saw a kernel panic! The stack trace showed to blame was the Atheros driver -- yes, you read right, some new MacBook Pros now come with Atheros instead of just Broadcom wireless chipsets. Apple chose not to enable debugging symbols on the stack trace, which I suppose makes sense as its a generic kernel and *they* probably do have the mappings somewhere in apple-hq.

Buddy called Apple, they told him to go in and replace it. Just like that. Good thing it was new!

I have to admit though -- boy, that kernel panic is the prettiest I've seen, no blue screens and the error message transalted in 4 languages! Hehe.

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• MacBook
• Pro
• MacBookPro
• Apple
• laptop
• crash
• kernel
• panic
• Mac

[theimacman1]

If you want it to work then reinstall Mac os x

[NullDeveloper]

You said new.

In video: a week old.

=/ stop watching porn on you Mac!

Get Linux!!!!

[Mchlngy4]

Bad luck!

[Mchlngy4]

Haha!

[Nadav34]

That macbook pro is a piece of trash

[KayakServer]

@JPdude612 Yup

Today I got a Panic from my mac

[Mchlngy4]

Ha ha.

[ghartsho]

@JCDizon16 This was in the days of Tiger... Since then apple has switched to intel, they have released 2 new OS's and are about to release another. Old Mac's suck. I've had my Mac for over 3 months. No Panics, nothing.

[JCDizon16]

Get Windows 7

[david52875]

kernel panic