NVidia chips faulty- affect Macs too
The news about NVidia just keeps getting worse and can be filed in the "stick a fork in them" category. NVidia had to admit that some of their video chips were faulty and the impact on the company was so great that shareholders filed suit against management. The faulty chips spawned recalls by HP and Dell for notebooks containing the defective chips and today Apple has admitted that some MacBook Pros have the faulty chips. Apple has notified owners that MacBook Pros with GeForce 8600M GT chips can exhibit video problems, garbled or dead screens, and that Apple will repair them at no cost to the owners. Apple will also refund any previous service costs that owners have incurred over video problems on affected units. The following devices are subject to the NVidia problem:
- MacBook Pro (17-Inch, 2.4GHz)
- MacBook Pro (15-Inch, 2.4/2.2GHz)
- MacBook Pro (Early 200
If you’re having video problems on one of these models take it to Apple for resolution. Makes me glad that my MacBook Pro is older and has the ATI chips.
(via TUAW)
That’s a far cry from the announcement PC laptop users got back when this first surfaced. At least Apple had the balls to specify model numbers and identify the GPU at fault, instead of merely throwing out SKU numbers like HP did.
Posted by: Luscious | October 10, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Here’s what my freaked out MacBook Pro’s display looks like:
http://www.notebooks.com/2008/10/10/apple-to-replace-faulty-nvidia-gpus-in-macbook-pros/
Started acting up a month out of warranty.
Posted by: Xavier | October 10, 2008 at 9:09 pm