This is certainly weird. When I first got my Mac Mini, I installed Windows XP along side OSX — I figured boot-camp would be a nice accessory if I ever needed/wanted to boot into XP for anything. After the XP install, I never went back into Windows. I had no reason to do so, thus I stuck with OSX day in and day out. That is, however, until tonight.

For whatever reason, my Mac Mini was misbehaving tonight. It was very laggy (and it’s never laggy), and applications just didn’t seem to want to work. I tried closing all of my applications (in hopes of running disk utility, and the like), but nothing seemed to work which would help my situation. So, I turned to turning off my Mac Mini completely by holding the power button down for several seconds.

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