bought a Macbook Pro within the last year, or so?

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then it might be a good idea to read this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377

its been bouncing around for a few months now since nVidia made their announcement (in July) after suspicious behaviour from a number of manufactures' laptops; HP, dell etc.
What's a bit shocking is that apple knowingly sold potentially defective machines during this time...as the release note states it occurs in computers "manufactured between approximately May 2007 and September 2008"
so basically an entire revision and more of that particular chipset then...
Macbook lottery anyone?!
 
Seems that Nvidia are the bad guy here and Apple have done the right thing offering a free out of warranty repair.
 
pxl8 said:
Seems that Nvidia are the bad guy here and Apple have done the right thing offering a free out of warranty repair.
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nVIDIA are not the bad guys either they were the ones that found the fault and publicly announced it ....its just one of those things that happen like Win millenium but Bill didnt say that was a load of rubbish did he :whistling:
 
I thought I read that Nvidia told Apple they didn't have any affected units when they did???
 
I've been pwning n00bs on Counterstrike:Source in Bootcamp on my pro for the past year without any problems so far. And I've been pwning hard.
 
yeah there's a rather substantial 'grey area' surrounding the issue, that said nVidia did announce they put asside a chunk of money (millions!) to help companies whos products were affected. I forget when the reports of dying gpu's started cropping up but it did take a short while for the ball to get rolling and then it seems a plan was put in place to help affected users. the problem is this was back in june/july and saying (from apple) computers 'made between may 07 and sept 08' sort of says they didn't change/adapt their manufacturing processes to prevent any faulty stuff getting out, thats all. Though they have extended their cover for affected computers from one to two years, basically fix it only if it breaks. given that its apparently based largely on thermal stress - repeated increase/decrease in gpu core - its a time-related problem. The initial reaction from apple was under-clock the card and make the fans run all the time...though this only means it 'may' last longer before it eventually fails, and typically beyond the one year's cover. so extending it to 2 years was a reasonable compromise I suppose...I believe the 'fix' (new mainboard basically) does alieviate the problem.
 
This exact thing happened to me about 6 months ago, although my macbook pro was under warranty so got it fixed. It was weird. One second it was fine and dandy, the next second it died completely. Oh well, it's working now.
 
At least Apple are willing to repair them free and nVIDIA will pay for it seems like good business sense to me :thumbs:
 
I've been playing Bioshock on Boot Camp, and although the GPU runs hot, haven't managed to break it yet...

Applecare 3yr backup definitely helps for my peace of mind... there's plenty of stories around that major hardware failures - especially when the model is no longer in production - mean a replacement new MBP from the newer lineup [one guy got a brand new MBP after 2 1/2 years!!!]

Downside - well, no matte screen on the new MBP's means my generation is gold-dust to photographers and designers...
 
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