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Macbook Pro issue, figure I'll take a shot in the dark and ask you guys

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Wompuscat
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Alright, so I got my Macbook Pro in the summer of 2010 before I started college. Its the i7 version and I believe it came with the Snow Leopard OS installed stock. Well, it worked swimmingly until last year when I decided to upgrade the OS to Lion I believe?(OSX 10.8.4 is what I'm running currently) Ever since I went to the newer OS my computer shuts down at random times, then says "restarted due to an error." Now yes, I have googled this problem, but it always comes up to these huge pages of technical jargon and kernel interruptions and things like that. I have no idea what ANY of that means. I'm not too technologically savvy. It's not too bad right now, I've been running like this for a year. I just can't really open Microsoft Word or Spotify I've noticed. I can run those for a while, but after about 20 minutes or so the computer restarts. If nothing else, I'll just take it to my dad's tech repair guy and get it sorted out. Anyway, if anybody has any idea what might be going wrong, or any idea to help it would be much appreciated, thanks.
Oct 15 2013 1:01PM
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Blurst
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Shoulda got a PC, they are more reliable.

Id say your mac has dognosis though.
Oct 15 2013 1:03PM
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Tree60
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Go to an apple store near you? if they have a genius bar, they should be able to check it out.
Oct 15 2013 1:06PM
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Top_Gun
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Try booting from install disk, go into disk utility from the first menu bar item. Click on Macintosh HD, click on First Aid, and click repair disk. Let it run and then click repair disk permissions, and restart. Should fix it.
Oct 15 2013 1:07PM
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howlongcanausern
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back up your stuff and re-install lion/snow leopard
Oct 15 2013 1:08PM
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Wompuscat
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Thanks for the responses guys, gives me a couple ideas to try here.

To the one guy above, I actually would have gotten a PC if I was paying. My dad said he'd buy my computer, but ONLY if I got a MacBook Pro. Which I know, does not make sense, but whatever.
Oct 15 2013 1:13PM
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cornholio
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you're just going to have to suck it up and admit you're not that smart and go find a genius to help
Oct 15 2013 1:14PM
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SKIINGISEASY
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i heard if you inject sperm into the hard drive, it will make it a soft drive and those are better. Just a thought
Oct 15 2013 1:45PM
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