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Laptops With Certain NVidia Chips Failing
Eukariote writes "An estimated 18 million laptops with NVidia G84 and G86 graphics chips sold in the past one and a half years are experiencing high failure rates. Various laptop models from multiple manufacturers (Apple, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and others) are affected. NVidia blames it on bad chip packaging causing thermal failure. BIOS updates that turn the laptop fan on more frequently or permanently have been released by Dell and HP. The cynical interpretation is that this is likely to only delay the problem until the warranty has expired."
Just continue to use iTunes without the display, you pussy. Sheesh -- typical Mac user.
The article about trolling is the next one down. Easy mistake to make.
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I heard that Steve Jobs can smell a faulty substrate, even if it isnt going to fail for years, and that he personally sniffs every chip that goes into the production line to protect us Apple fans!
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I'm sitting on a lenovo laptop with an Nvidia and the fan doesnt come on under normal conditions until the laptop is what i would consider too hot (~65 celsius).
Dude, don't sit on the laptop then, it's no surprise that it gets hot.
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Personally, I've never used my display on my MacBookPro. The UI on OSX is so wonderful, that I do not even have to look at it. I practically imagine what I want to open, and it opens it for me! This coupled with the nice sounds, let me know when I've opened the right application. If worst comes to worst, I can just use the option key combos to start my music, to start web-browsing etc.
I've never used it, so to be honest, I don't see why anyone would want such a feature, let a lone need it.