Originally Posted by DamianJ

I was in Vegas for the Jan show and due to give a seminar on marketing. I was working on presentation and only copy was on my laptop. Which died 2 hours before seminar. Took it to Apple store and they guy worked on things for about 40 mins before trying freezing it.

Waiting 20-30 mins and it worked for long enough for me to get the data off and do the presentation.