Apple Admits Nvidia GPU Defect In Some MacBook Pros

bigwophh writes "The brouhaha over defective Nvidia mobile graphics chips keeps rolling along, even months after the initial headlines have faded. Despite Nvidia's promises that Apple's GeForce 8600M GT-based MacBook Pros had dodged the bullet and were immune from the defect, Apple now counters that it wasn't, in fact, so lucky. 'In July 2008, NVIDIA publicly acknowledged a higher than normal failure rate for some of their graphics processors due to a packaging defect. At that same time, Nvidia assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not affected. However, after an Apple-led investigation, Apple has determined that some MacBook Pro computers with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics processor may be affected.' The units in question are the 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pro notebooks with Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT GPUs, built between May 2007 and September 2008."

Comments

"brouhaha"

[Samantha Wright]

Somewhere, there is a conspiracy of marketers and reporters who spend their time digging painfully obscure slang terms out of dictionaries.

I mean, look at it:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Aslashdot.org+brouhaha

It always shows up in these articles, once every few blue moons, marching in and trying to sound perfectly standard and common. With very few exceptions, a general Google search suggests that it only shows up in news articles and dictionaries. Does everything really have to be a buzzword, guys?

funny

[AnXa]

I tried to say something funny but ended up being not so funny.