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Snow Leopard Causes ‘Spinning Wheel Of Death’

Numerous Mac users are complaining that upgrading their systems to Apple’s new Snow Leopard operating system causes a boot failure that results in an endless display of a rotating icon known colloquially as “the spinning wheel of death.”