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2011 MacBook Pros Crashing Under Load?
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Says the guy with more Apple products than I have, including a white iPad 2!
If anything demonstrates giving in to the closed, locked-down Apple ecosystem, it's Apple's iDevices. Your Apple TV doesn't even do 1080P.
Hope you enjoy them, though. There's plenty of room at the bottle for both of us.
If you're going to preach about Windoze and your custom PC rig (and then advertise your iDevices in your sig), you're in the wrong place.
Okay, built boost with PhotoBooth running on my new base model 15" MBP. Was also doing some browsing, playing music, and downloading Xcode 4. Anyway, no issues here yet.
(The ^C is from when I moved to a better network.)
cos it doesn't effect the 15inch base!
I have a Boxee Box for the media room [1080P, 7.1, HD Audio] and the Apple TV for the small bedroom TV.
The point remains that if this had happened to MS people like you would be preaching how MS can't code their way out of a paper bag and tell everyone they should have bought a Mac.
So we have confirmed it's the 6750M models only, then?
A few have asked this, but no one ever replied as far as I can tell.
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I wondered about the auto-switching on the GPU. It seems that you could run into some problems by straddling the switch threshold. Repeatedly switching back and forth can't be good for the system. Perhaps that ha something to do with it?
I wondered about the auto-switching on the GPU. It seems that you could run into some problems by straddling the switch threshold. Repeatedly switching back and forth can't be good for the system. Perhaps that ha something to do with it?
I did. It did not say that only 6750M models are affected.
If there's another section there that explicitly says only 6750M models and no 6490M models are affected, please direct me to it. If we can narrow it down to the 6750M only, then that's progress, but I haven't heard anything too definitive about that yet.
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That's exactly it.
For MS and their box-maker partners, problems, issues and frustrations are the norm. It's expected. It keeps IT departments in business.
For Apple it's the exception. Yes, Apple is held to a different standard, and rightfully so. Hence, their well-deserved customer satisfaction rankings year after year.
Considering the amazing string of failures with apple's notebooks, failure should also be expected ?
It'd be nice to have a laptop that didn't hiss through the line out / studio monitors. Had to go to optical out to isolate this awful thing.
Windows 7 has been and is a solid OS. MS can't be criticized for other companies build quality. Apple can be ridiculed because they control the entire process of all their machines.
Apple is not the exception anymore. They've had numerous problems especially this past year of a time frame. One can look at even the new iPad to see how their Q&A process has been lacking.
pretty pissed here
got my 13" MBP i7 3 days ago
got no issues until i tried to watch my videos and run some games
artefacts with AoE III and no display at all with Civilization V
movies under VLC: freezing for 5 to 10 secondes at least 2-3 times
i am returning it and getting a 2010 model on the refurb
seems like the Intel GPU is really crappy and that, once again, Apple used cheap material, sold at expensive price on our backs
seems like there is always an issue with Rev. A machines...
got my 13" MBP i7 3 days ago
got no issues until i tried to watch my videos and run some games
artefacts with AoE III and no display at all with Civilization V
movies under VLC: freezing for 5 to 10 secondes at least 2-3 times
i am returning it and getting a 2010 model on the refurb
seems like the Intel GPU is really crappy and that, once again, Apple used cheap material, sold at expensive price on our backs
seems like there is always an issue with Rev. A machines...
Have the machine in my sig, have photobooth open, have 8 yes > /dev/null & running and machine is fine, temps only get to 84C or so... It is running as I post this. This is NOT happening to all machines, this is likely due to (as said before) piss poor thermal paste applications - we all know the CPU's will throttle/shutdown before they melt themselves, my guess is that is what is happening here.
Not trying to be a hater...but, I feel like apple is letting QC slip by the wayside. MBP Refresh Issues
1. Sloppy application of thermal paste(may result in overheating)
2. Thunderbolt port issues (causing flickering on displays)
3. Crashing under load (jury is still out on this for me)
All this for +1700, no redesign, and no standard SSD. Im sorry, but APPLE needs to refocus back to it's computing HW base. I cant help but blame iOS a little bit.
1. Sloppy application of thermal paste(may result in overheating)
2. Thunderbolt port issues (causing flickering on displays)
3. Crashing under load (jury is still out on this for me)
All this for +1700, no redesign, and no standard SSD. Im sorry, but APPLE needs to refocus back to it's computing HW base. I cant help but blame iOS a little bit.
Will Lion kill it again with all of its resource-hogging glitz to get in the way of performance?
First post, been looking around here for a while though.
Just to be clear, has there been any more issues with 13" models? I understand the problem seems to be caused by the AMD GPU that the 13 doesnt have. I actually planned on purchasing one today, specificly the i5 model
Just to be clear, has there been any more issues with 13" models? I understand the problem seems to be caused by the AMD GPU that the 13 doesnt have. I actually planned on purchasing one today, specificly the i5 model
guys stop being obsessed with Lion
bad hardware
new software is not going to solve the problem
SL is a very stable OS, it never caused this kind of trouble with 2010 MBPs
it has something to do with defective Intel chipsets or Sandy Bridge...
bad hardware
new software is not going to solve the problem
SL is a very stable OS, it never caused this kind of trouble with 2010 MBPs
it has something to do with defective Intel chipsets or Sandy Bridge...
This has been an issue since before 2007, it is not new...
It is NOT bad hardware or else all machines would exhibit this behavior, they do not. Please read the thread.
I'm surprised there isn't more talk about the gobs of thermal paste being applied. This seems to be largely a product of lousy manufacturing ie. improper application of thermal paste. It would explain why its inconsistent and some but not all are seeing the freezing issues.
Doing a software/firmware fix that throttles back the CPU/GPU is a bit of a lame fix, if the lousy manufacturing is causing the problem.
Doing a software/firmware fix that throttles back the CPU/GPU is a bit of a lame fix, if the lousy manufacturing is causing the problem.
