Involuntary reboot log 12.5

Panic while the machine was unattended.

Despite this incident, the average time between failures for this machine is 170.6 days (up from 142), which is the best of any machine I’ve had since beginning to keep these records. (Technically, if I didn’t have so many keyboard problems — most of which were caused by my decision to use Karabiner-Elements — with my mid-2015 MacBook Pro, that one would probably be the most reliable.)

Statistics so far for this machine

  • Failure type: kernel panic
  • OS version: Sonoma 14.0
  • Uptime at moment of failure: unsure; perhaps 2 or 3 days
  • Kernel panics: 2
  • Hard resets: 3
  • Total failures: 5
  • Start of recording keeping: 31 May 2021
  • Total days to date: 853
  • Average time between failures: 170.6 days

Summary of events for this machine

  1. 2021-07-14: machine spontaneously powered off while absent.
  2. 2021-08-06: spontaneous kernel panic while not in active use.
  3. 2022-06-14: spontaneous reboot while actively using.
  4. 2022-12-21: spontaneous shutdown.
  5. 2023-10-02: unattended kernel panic.

Historical data (all machines)

For comparison, previous generations of machines (from most oldest to most recent) that I’ve used have had averages of:

Active? Average uptime Total lifetime Log Model Description
❌ ~13.83 days ~540 days #1 — #39 PowerMac G5 personal machine
❌ 22.73 days 1,364 days #40 — #60 iMac (17", Early 2006) personal machine
❌ 20.06 days 321 days 2.x iMac (27", Late 2009) personal machine
❌ 19.11 days 707 days 3.x MacBook Air (13", Late 2010) work machine (Causes)
❌ 41.86 days 293 days 4.x MacBook Air (13", Mid-2012) work machine (Causes)
❌ 2.0 days 2 days 5.x MacBook (unsure of model) work machine (Causes), loaner laptop
❌ 27.176 days 462 days 6.x MacBook Air (13", Mid-2013) work machine (Facebook)
❌ 35.0 days 140 days 7.x as above, but with a replacement shell work machine (Facebook)
❌ 40.8 days 245 days 8.x MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) work machine (Facebook)
❌ 87.0 days 522 days 9.x MacBook Pro (Haswell, Mid-2015, dual graphics) work machine (Facebook)
✅ 94.4 days 1,667+ days 10.x MacBook Pro (Haswell, Mid-2015, dual graphics) personal machine
❌ n/a 844 days 11.x MacBook Pro 15-Inch "Core i7" 2.6 Touch/2018 work machine (Liferay)
✅ 170.6 days 853+ days 12.x MacBook Pro 13-Inch "M1" 8-Core 3.2 (2020) work machine (GitHub)