I'm pretty impressive, y'all

[lassarina]

I managed to render my iMac unable to boot. (Tech support guy says likely culprit is uTorrent, which I only downloaded to get my Humble Indie Bundle games. Let us savor the ridiculousness here: legitimately downloading files I paid for busted my computer.) I'm pretty chill about this because a) it was my iMac, which has 3.25 years to go on its

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[3_2_1]

As someone who has been using microtorrent for years on both Mac and Windows, that seems really unlikely if you know what you're downloading. They were probably just trying to warn you off of torrents. But hey, what does it matter if it's somebody else's problem!

[3_2_1]

Heh.

http://www.reddit.com/r/torrents/comments/mxafy/apple_genius_told_me_the_reason_my_mac_crashed/

So, try Transmission? But I really doubt microtorrent killed your computer.

[lassarina]

Interesting. The guy couldn't have known I had uTorrent on my computer--it must have been a lucky guess, because we were doing phone support and I hadn't mentioned it. But yeah, I've heard Transmission is the way to go. (Though I doubt I'll ever use torrents again.)

[3_2_1]

Hmm. Could this be the culprit?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4020399?start=15&tstart=0

[cursethisplace]

I <3 Steam.

[lassarina]

I really don't use it much because I play few PC/Mac games, but in the future I might consider it.

Eventually it turned out (per link above) that it was the updates I was trying to install that caused the kernel panic error. *facepalm* GG Apple.

[wizocodes]

Yup, huge list. :)

[lassarina]

I try :)

Hi Wizo! *squishes*