Great stuff, I will try to keep Chrome away from my system, maybe that will fix the freeze problem.Completely un-scientific conclusion that it may indeed be my beloved Google Chrome browser that's causing the periodic freezing glitch. Watching closely the Activity Monitor after launching Chrome reveals the PepperFlashPlayer (Chrome Plug-In) is not responding (red) and Google Chrome Helper is also not responding (red). Force quitting Chrome seems to do my system very well in terms of glitch/freeze reduction. That sucks because Chrome has been my mainstay of internet surfing for years and years. Guess I go over to Safari. We'll keep watch on Chrome updates and hopefully they can get this fixed. Bummer
Nice! I will make a clean install tomorrow with all the drivers etc. and make a stability test with no 3rd-party software installed.This is turning into an interesting one with several avenues of exploration. I deleted chrome a couple of days ago and was still experiencing multiple freezes and crashes. I've subsequently found a couple of threads elsewhere from users of genuine Macs who reported that it seemed to be VLC which was causing their identical slowdowns. Last night I deleted VLC and I've been using my computer for the last 6 hours pretty non-stop and (touch wood) I've had zero crashes or slowdowns today.