Mac help! I get that stupid spinning pinwheel

MsHark

quite often.  In ten minutes, I get it at least 2 times.  It seems to have started fairly recently, but I don't know why. This is on my Macbook laptop that is 10 months old.  Any input on how I can stop this from happening?  It happens on the internet, but also during non-internet operations. 

About a month ago my trackpad stopped clicking, so I had to switch it over to "tapping" - so when I tap (not click) the mouse, that is how I select things. I need to get it fixed.  But could having to tap instead of click somehow cause the pinwheel to spin more often?

Any input? Thanks! 

sunshine_day_dreams

Hm, I don't know about the tapping making it spin.  The only thing that ever locks mine up is stupid MS Office for Mac.

Do you know about the Command + Option + Esc to open the task manager (like Ctrl + Alt + Delete on a PC)?  Have you tried that when you get the pinwheel to see if it tells you what is locked up and not responding?

Deeder522

Could be a bad hard drive. You could pick up a in a new HD with a new OS and put the old one in an external case and then use Migration assistant to move the data over. That show take care of the problems.

estherandgeoff2

Open up the Activity Monitor and see what is taking up all your RAM. Then open the Apple symbol on the top left and go to About this Mac to see if everything still works as it's supposed to. Does all your memory still work as it should? See how much free disk space you have. If it's almost full that will slow down your computer. Restart your computer. If all of these still don't work take it to the Apple store and get it looked at. It should still be under warranty.

Burgandy05

You are still under the 1 year warranty, I wouldn't even mess with it, bring it in and have Apple fix it!