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2010 MacBook Pros i5/i7 Having Freeze issues

I opened an RMA today.
I'm gonna get my money back. And I'm gonna think, what to buy right now.
Maybe iMac, but have the same problems, so...

Let's see...
 
As prevalent as this issue seems to be, I'm surprised Apple didn't experience it before they shipped. Or perhaps they did & shipped them anyway. 🙂
 
The obvious workaround for now is to just leave your MBP running the nvidia GPU all the time. I know this isn't a solution for a lot of people since it's a laptop and many users are on battery power a lot of the time, but for people like me that only use their laptop on battery power for about an hour a day it's not really an issue.

Of course, though, I'm waiting for Apple to fix this.
 
15" i7 HR 8GB 512 SSD

I had the same problem you are describing here, but only once since I got my new MBP 2010. I assume that apple is working in this issue now and we are going to get good news soon.
Mine is 15" i7 HR glossy 8GB 512 SSD
Good Luck😎
 
MBHockey said:
The obvious workaround for now is to just leave your MBP running the nvidia GPU all the time. I know this isn't a solution for a lot of people since it's a laptop and many users are on battery power a lot of the time, but for people like me that only use their laptop on battery power for about an hour a day it's not really an issue.

Of course, though, I'm waiting for Apple to fix this.
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So you actually admit this is a problem now then? or are you still suggesting that it isn't a problem? you seen to contradict your self quite often on these forums.

Cheers,
HBC
 
hotbook crash said:
So you actually admit this is a problem now then? or are you still suggesting that it isn't a problem? you seen to contradict your self quite often on these forums.

Cheers,
HBC
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Really? Quite often? I'd love to see some examples. It seems more an issue of reading comprehension and an inability to understand subtleties on your end than anything else. Here, I'll help you out:

All I said (a few pages back) was that you can't claim that everyone will experience an issue just because some people are. I was being honest in saying I hadn't experience a freeze. And then a couple of days later I had the same kind of freeze that was being talked about here, so I updated the thread. Does that mean I think that everyone will now experience this problem? Absolutely not. And I never said it wasn't a "problem"; I was refuting the argument that it will unequivocally affect every single core i5/i7 MBP.

I still maintain, though, that this doesn't mean everyone with a Core i5/i7 MBP will necessarily experience this issue. There's simply no way to know because we do not know exactly what is causing it (other than it being vaguely related to automatic graphics switching.)
 
I've called Support today, as I said.
They really know about this. And about yellow screens in MBP and iMac.

I still mantain too, that this is a matter "of all". For sure.
 
Why is everyone slagging MBHockey?

He expressed the sentiment that has been established by regulars on this forum, that faults in new systems are a minority and overrepresented on forums.

He then experienced the same freeze, retracted his belief, and that is that.

Getting back to the freezing issue, it will be fixed at some point. Sending your machine back or returning it is likely to be a temporal fix until this is sorted at the root.

If you deem it unacceptable in a new machine, that is justified, and go right ahead and undertake the repair process. It will expedite making the issue salient to Apple. For the rest who are willing to be patient, I believe a fix will come in the way of a software update. It could be soon or take a while, I am willing to wait.
 
"He then experienced the same freeze, retracted his belief, and that is that."

So what you're saying is that he contradicted himself? yes, i agree.

Cheers,
HBC
 
I have seen this issue a few times doing random things.

What the f*ck. This and the sh*tty dropping/slow WiFi. Complete joke. I called Apple, did the reset SMC dance.

I'll probably be exchanging my Pro 15" i5 for a white MacBook. I hope the uMBs don't fall apart like the old CrapBooks w/ flickering screens and cases that literally fall apart.

Apple's quality has gone out the window. A ~$2,000 line of Pro computers should NOT have WIDESPREAD manufacturing issues. 😡😡😡
 
MBHockey said:
Really? Quite often? I'd love to see some examples. It seems more an issue of reading comprehension and an inability to understand subtleties on your end than anything else. Here, I'll help you out:

All I said (a few pages back) was that you can't claim that everyone will experience an issue just because some people are. I was being honest in saying I hadn't experience a freeze. And then a couple of days later I had the same kind of freeze that was being talked about here, so I updated the thread. Does that mean I think that everyone will now experience this problem? Absolutely not. And I never said it wasn't a "problem"; I was refuting the argument that it will unequivocally affect every single core i5/i7 MBP.

I still maintain, though, that this doesn't mean everyone with a Core i5/i7 MBP will necessarily experience this issue. There's simply no way to know because we do not know exactly what is causing it (other than it being vaguely related to automatic graphics switching.)
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experienced
 
xaquaticx said:
I have seen this issue a few times doing random things.

What the f*ck. This and the sh*tty dropping/slow WiFi. Complete joke. I called Apple, did the reset SMC dance.

I'll probably be exchanging my Pro 15" i5 for a white MacBook. I hope the uMBs don't fall apart like the old CrapBooks w/ flickering screens and cases that literally fall apart.

Apple's quality has gone out the window. A ~$2,000 line of Pro computers should NOT have WIDESPREAD manufacturing issues. 😡😡😡
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i fully agree, this is very poor form for such an expensive machine
 
hotbook crash said:
i fully agree, this is very poor form for such an expensive machine
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Also for everyone's info I have the slowest 15" i5 and I put a 7200 Seagate drive in. 4 gig ram 10.6.3 with all updates. Hires screen. Got it the first day it came out, had it a few weeks. Have seen this crash a few times, I can't remember at all what I was doing, I just remember being very very pissed.
 
try!

I have a feeling it has something to do with Intel/330 switching.

What I'm trying is to disable automatic switching. And run GeForce 330 all the time here using power cable. So far no freezes
 
hotbook crash said:
"He then experienced the same freeze, retracted his belief, and that is that."

So what you're saying is that he contradicted himself? yes, i agree.

Cheers,
HBC
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Unsurprisingly, you don't seem to know the definition of 'contradiction'.

My previous post wasn't meant to be complex or difficult to understand, but somehow it went right over your head.
 
Zavior said:
I have a feeling it has something to do with Intel/330 switching.

What I'm trying is to disable automatic switching. And run GeForce 330 all the time here using power cable. So far no freezes
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I don´t know if that is the reason, when it happend to me I just booted MAC OS ... I wasn´t start doing anything jet.
 
lightworker said:
I've called Support today, as I said.
They really know about this. And about yellow screens in MBP and iMac.

I still mantain too, that this is a matter "of all". For sure.
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I must be the exception whoo hoooo, since you seem to be all knowing what are the lotto numbers for tomorrow?
 
Maverick713 said:
I must be the exception whoo hoooo, since you seem to be all knowing what are the lotto numbers for tomorrow?
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No issues here either. Poll in another thread shows 85% or so with no issues.

I have been trying to make it happen using apps that trigger the switch, on and off AC power, under load, sleep and wake up... no problems at all.

I also use VMWare Fusion 3 with 2 VMs running simultaneous quite often, as well as XCode.

15" HD, i7, 8GB Apple Ram, Apple 256GB SSD

Machine runs stone cold, mega battery life.
 
With graphics switching on, I'm getting regular kernel panics.

15" i7 7200RPM Hi-res anti-glare

Code: 
Backtrace continues...
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelHDGraphics(6.1.4)@0x11f0000->0x129cfff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x958000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.1)@0x98a000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.1)@0x969000
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface(74.0)@0x150e000->0x1518fff

Don't know if I should get a replacement or just turn it off and hope for a patch.

😕
 
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