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MacBook Pro Graphics Processor Failure
« on: 11 October 2008, 15:51 »
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October 10, 2008 (Computerworld)  Apple Inc. yesterday confirmed that MacBook Pro laptops manufactured through last month may contain faulty Nvidia Corp. graphics processors.

The announcement puts Apple in the company of other major U.S. laptop makers, including Dell Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Co., that have previously reported using the bad chips in their systems.

On Friday, Nvidia said that any replacement cost to Apple would be covered by the $196 million fund it announced in July. "In a way, this is all old news to us," said Derek Perez, an Nvidia spokesman.

In a support document posted Thursday, Apple said that, contrary to what it had been told by Nvidia several months ago, some MacBook Pro notebooks equipped with Nvidia's GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor may be among the machines using flawed chips.

I heard on other forums a few months ago about the various other laptop manufacturers complaining of high failure rates on the nVidia chips. Disappointing to be honest that nVidia even had a problem like this, and let it get so big unnoticed.
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Re: MacBook Pro Graphics Processor Failure
« Reply #1 on: 12 October 2008, 07:25 »
Chips being released in current notebooks were probably manufactured months ago.  By the time they start seeing problems on the street, there are thousands of units circulating among OEM sellers and 2nd-party manufacturers (like Apple).  Their success made them confident, and then there confidence made them unsuccessful.  Perhaps this will get them to slow down and do more QC.
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Re: MacBook Pro Graphics Processor Failure
« Reply #2 on: 13 October 2008, 01:35 »
Hopefully. nVidia has been getting slammed with issues lately though. Driver problems, hardware problems, etc..
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Re: MacBook Pro Graphics Processor Failure
« Reply #3 on: 4 November 2008, 00:21 »
I'm no ATi fan, but after being affected by the Nvidia crises I do worry about buying another.
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Re: MacBook Pro Graphics Processor Failure
« Reply #4 on: 4 November 2008, 07:06 »
They seem to have got it fixed now.
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Re: MacBook Pro Graphics Processor Failure
« Reply #5 on: 5 November 2008, 00:04 »
Quote from: Lead Head on  4 November 2008, 07:06
They seem to have got it fixed now.
Yeah. Apple extended the warrantee by a year as well, just in case there are more issues. For example, a guy on macrumors ended up on his 4th replacement before it was fixed.
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Re: MacBook Pro Graphics Processor Failure
« Reply #6 on: 6 November 2008, 02:02 »
4th REPLACEMENT?
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