Some New 17" MacBook Pros Plagued With Failing Graphics
March 6, 2009 9:39 AM
Apple's pricey latest luxury offerings are showcasing poor graphical integrity
For only $2,799 you can buy yourself an entry level new 17" MacBook Pro. And according, to recent reports, your purchase may come with a complementary side of failing graphics.
The pricey new luxury MacBook, which debuted in January at Macworld, features both 9600M and 9400M NVIDIA mobile graphics cards. While Apple clearly thought this to be a clever design, offering bothperformance and power savings, by switching the 9600M on only ingraphically intense situations, it appears to also be making thesystems' graphics fail according to Engadget.
Numerous owners are reporting failing graphics, random green lines andartifacts on their displays. Monitoring the graphics cards, theseusers believe that they have traced the problem back to when the secondcard -- the 9600M -- turns on.
If the second card is indeed to blame, it’s still unclear who's atfault for the fiasco. NVIDIA last year was plagued with graphicsproblems, declaring nearly all its mobile GPUs to be defective and prone to overheating. Apple also has not been without notable quality concerns of late.
Regardless of who's to blame though, the situation makes for some veryunhappy MacBook Pro owners. One can only hope the purchasers are ableto warranty out their defective machines or at least hope for afirmware/driver update to solve the issues.
17" MacBook Pro
A picture taken of the artifacting occuring on one of the failing 17" MacBook Pro. It is unclear whether NVIDIA or Apple is to blame for the failure of the $2,799 laptop's graphics.
我觉得相对G84m,G86m的集中爆发,9600M离大规模上市还有段时间,相信以后会更精彩
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