I was using a rather cpu intensive app, then everything went crazy (the cpu moniter said 2000%!) and then my MacBook just shut itself off without an explanation. Does this sound like the notorious random shutdown problem? I've been running it for around four hours since with no problems. Opinions welcome.
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MacBook just turned itself off... Help wanted.
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I don't think that you can judge on one shutdown. Since you are now running fine I would not worry too much. You might try and simulate the conditions under which you had the problem and see if it shuts down again? If you can repeat the problem this will give you a much better idea of what, if anything, is going on. 
If you are able to reproduce the problem, and none of the resets works, then
I think you hit the jackpot. There's even a dot com about it:
http://macbookrandomshutdown.com/
Here's my experience:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/245753/
They fixed it pretty fast. Glad we are not the early ones.
Just remember to backup your data before sending it in.
I think you hit the jackpot. There's even a dot com about it:
http://macbookrandomshutdown.com/
Here's my experience:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/245753/
They fixed it pretty fast. Glad we are not the early ones.
Just remember to backup your data before sending it in.