MacOSG: Keep magnets away from a MacBook Air

Posted by Daniel East Nov 5, 2008 at 11:00am

A Mac owner was having a odd problem with his MacBook Air. When using Microsoft Entourage (2008) the screen would go black every few seconds making impossible to use. It seemed to only do it in Entourage. It was doing it in Entourage X as well, so he upgraded hoping it would fix it, but it didn’t.

What’s strange, is it was only happening him and not his wife. Come to find out, he was wearing a bracelet with small magnets in it (supposed to help with arthritis). He removed the braclet and it solved the problem.

Another owner was having similar problems. Ksenia S. writes, “I seem to be having this problem as well. It’s not as frequent as metnioned before, but it’s like every few minutes my computer just falls asleep, even if I’m using it. When it “wakes up” again, Airport needs to reconnect and it’s quite strange. It also does that even if my computer is plugged in.”

Later she writes, “I was wearing a bracelet with magnets on it as well. I was thinking about it, but I didn’t know it would actually cause problems. It’s fine now. Cool beans!”

“It appears that the MacBook Air may not be very well shielded (possibly to save weight/bulk),” the owner commented.

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