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

Price Drop?

[FranTaylor]

Maybe used MacBooks are in for a bit of a price drop, considering that they are ticking time bombs.

Nvidia Admits GPU Defect In Some MacBook Pro

[burnetd]

There, fixed that for you. God forbid that that an Apple story on Slashdot might have an accurate title or summary these days.

Yeah, I know, I must be new around here.

Re:My MBP was already burned by this issue...

[TheRaven64]

Meh, at least you got one of the nVidia ones. The ATi ones don't self-destruct, but it took them over a year to manage to write drivers for them that didn't cause regular kernel panics.

That said, OS X kernel panics are the most tasteful of all operating systems I've seen crash - the screen fades to grey and a nice box (rounded corners and everything) appears in the middle telling you, in four languages, how to reboot the machine.