I guess I am part of the minority, haha. I haven't suffered any problems so far, even if I was reaching temps as high as 90C under extreme load. I haven't tried the "test" that others have done, so my word can't be entirely accurate. Still, I am sure I have that shoddy thermal paste application that every other user has.
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2011 MacBook Pros Crashing Under Load?
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Stability test in 10.6.7
I ran the force lock test after updating to 10.6.7 and am not experiencing any lockups. I have all cores running full, photo booth open and played 15 minutes of 1080p from youtube and internal temp is sitting pretty at 84ºc. I'll let it run for another 15 or 20 minutes and update if it crashes but so far it seems fine.
Update: Ran it for another 20 minutes and no issue or additional rise in temp.
I ran the force lock test after updating to 10.6.7 and am not experiencing any lockups. I have all cores running full, photo booth open and played 15 minutes of 1080p from youtube and internal temp is sitting pretty at 84ºc. I'll let it run for another 15 or 20 minutes and update if it crashes but so far it seems fine.
Update: Ran it for another 20 minutes and no issue or additional rise in temp.
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Well it is strange apple is not saying what the problem is and what they are going do about it.
It was one of my biggest fears when I was ordering my CTO (just adding 8gb and higher res screen to the high end 15"). And yes, I also find it strange as well, but then again, you can assume that they don't want others to be too weary of the problems.
This is true. The day I got mine I came across this, performed the test and it locked / froze up. A friends also does it so I wouldn't be surprised if they all do.
I'm sure we are all really impressed with the fact that you tested 30 machines, but I take exception with your assumptions about my results. With photobooth running, I can have 8 instances of yes without issue. I can also build boost with photobooth running. This is the new 17" MBP.
Testing 30 machines doesn't make you an expert. It simply means you tested 30 machines.
So that would suggest to me that they may have actually fixed a legitimate software issue as opposed to just throttling down the CPU/GPU to keep them from running too hot and exposing build quality issues.
You have little knowledge of statistics I suppose, bet you didn't notice the special update specifically to fix this issue today.
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Of course I noticed the update today. My issue is with someone telling me I am either in denial or have no idea what I'm doing. Sort of like making assumptions on my knowledge of statistics
Sort of like making assumptions on my knowledge of statistics
You are probably right.
Hundreds (perhaps thousands) of moving parts in a car vs largely solid state devices in a computer. Your comparison is flawed, and your conclusion wrong.
Also, the day "it just works" gets old is the day people stop using it to describe Apple products.
10.6.6 Apple doesn't generally update the discs that come with the machines. They come with the minimum point update they run on.
Nice straw man.
If you think designing a chip with 100 million transistors and getting them all to work properly and testing to be sure they all work properly is easier than designing a car because a car has moving parts, you're just dead wrong. The quality control efforts, including things like design-for-test, fab controls, test structures, BIST, scan chains, etc. that go into making sure each of those 100,000,000 transistors work properly are far more effort than goes into QC'ing a simple mechanical system like a car.
And Apple products do "just work." Saying that this truism is wrong due to a temporary glitch (already fixed by today's OS upgrade) is like saying Macs don't "just work" because if you drop them down the stairs they stop functioning. That's not what "it just works" refers to; it refers to the fact that out of the box, without ever having to de-install crapware and install anti-malware solutions, you can do serious work with a Mac, and that when the average person tries to tell a Mac to do something, the Mac behaves as the average person expects.
Since you continue to insist on using the phrase "it just works" then you need to suck it up when a Apple product doesn't "just work" instead of getting your feelings hurt when others poke fun at it. In essence, it doesn't get old, in part thanks to you. Get over it.
Then go ahead and use "referred" in place of "use it" if it makes you feel better. Doesn't change a thing.