Involuntary reboot log 12.4

Screen went black and machine was unresponsive to key presses, power button, opening/closing, plugging/unplugging (tried Thunderbolt dock and also Apple-provided USB-C charger). After a couple hours of fiddling, eventually a long power button press (greater than 10 seconds) forced it alive again.

Even so, after this event machine is still one of the most reliable I’ve had to date, with an average time between failures of 142 days (only the Liferay machine was better, as it never had an involuntary reboot in its entire 844-day history).

Statistics so far for this machine

  • Failure type: hard reset
  • OS version: 13.0.1
  • Uptime at moment of failure: unsure, but it was multiple days, perhaps as many as 30
  • Kernel panics: 1
  • Hard resets: 3
  • Total failures: 4
  • Start of recording keeping: 31 May 2021
  • Total days to date: 568
  • Average time between failures: 142.00

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.

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)
✅ 87.74 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)
✅ 142.0 days 568+ days 12.x MacBook Pro 13-Inch "M1" 8-Core 3.2 (2020) work machine (GitHub)