Boot Camp Might Damage Speakers on 2016 MacBook Pro (digitaltrends.com)

An anonymous reader writes:One of the things an Apple Mac can do that Windows 10 machines can't do -- at least easily and completely legally -- is run both Windows and MacOS. Interestingly, it's Apple's Boot Camp utility that makes this feat possible, which essentially enables Macs of all flavors to boot directly to Windows 10 and use the Mac as if it were a Windows machine. Usually, this is a fairly straightforward process that works well, with the resulting Boot Camp configuration doing fairly well at mimicking a Windows 10 machine with a few hardware limitations. As of the 2016 MacBook Pro machines, however, it appears that Boot Camp might be causing some serious and uncharacteristic audio issues. It appears that the new speakers running on the refreshed MacBook Pro line aren't working so well with the obsolete drivers provided in the current version of MacOS Sierra Boot Camp. Users are reporting the issue on all models of the 2016 MacBook Pro, and they are not experiencing the issue in MacOS. Virtual machines using Parallels or other software are also not experiencing the issue, providing more support of a bad audio driver causing the problem in Boot Camp.

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pure quality

[Anonymous Coward]

Really feeling that Apple quality right now.

I'm sure steve jobs would be fine with this.

Bootloader jeopordizes your audio hardware

[Anonymous Coward]

I'll take "Stuff that shouldn't even be possible" for $1000 Alex.

Re:Bootloader jeopordizes your audio hardware

[thegarbz]

Nothing to do with boot-loader, everything to do with a shoddy driver.

Nothing to do with a boot-loader or a driver and everything to do with a hardware design which doesn't have a basic protection circuit.

Re:Bootloader jeopordizes your audio hardware

[gravewax]

The speakers are supposedly damaged over time according to the article. no driver or boot loader should be able to do that regardless of how shoddy, this is more shoddy hardware design then shoddy software.

Let me guess...

[dcavanaugh]

Speakers joining RAM, SSD, and batteries on Apple's growing list of components that can never be swapped out?

Re:Let me guess...

[Hognoxious]

One thing you can say about Apple stuff - the iPhone 7 doesn't have headphone socket problems.

The summary says nothing about actual damage.

[jeffb (2.718)]

If the anonymous reader or the msmash had done more than copy-pasting the first three paragraphs of the article, adding a link -- if they'd even read what they copy-pasted -- they might have realized this. If they lived in this fairy-tale land where editors edited, they might have gone so far as to summarize the bit about "pops" which appear to damage the speakers over time.

Re:The summary says nothing about actual damage.

[thegarbz]

None the less there's a reference in TFA about damage, clicking through goes to threads about damage, the first post goes to a person who has confirmed to received damaged speakers.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple...

Not to mention a quick google for any article related to the issue will find plenty of sources that say you can hear one pop and then the speakers sound forever distorted even when rebooting into MacOS.

Deadly instructions...

[BenJeremy]

Is this the guilty command in the boot loader?

POKE 59458,62

Re:Apple

[Anonymous Coward]

Probably because your speakers are blown.

Re:no

[smooth wombat]

How is someone spending money the way they want spending wastefully? It's their money. They can do with it what they want. I am sure you buy things that others would consider a waste.

Also, speaking of idiots, the word is you're.