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2011 MacBook Pros Crashing Under Load?

I waited for the update to be released and bought a 15" 2.2ghz machine with the 10.6.7 update pre-installed - and no problems at all! It is great to have a quad core machine with that much power in a laptop and to keep a 7hr battery life when doing basic tasks. It does get quite hot (just before the point of burning - still bareable but not comfy - but only when doing intensive tasks, but when are you going to be likely to do intensive tasks on your lap?). The only problem I have had is that iTunes occasionally freezes when importing my stuff from my portable hdd. But it is overall a great machine - and will most likely last for ages. One criticism - at the price it should have come with a 750gb 7200rpm hdd not 5400rpm, but it is by no means slow. The standard 900p display is beautiful and imho would not be worth the upgrade to the 1050p unless you require it for work/video editing, or want the antiglare screen which comes hires standard. AND THE USB 2.0 PORTS ARE FAST FOR USB 2.0 - THEY HAVE ENOUGH POWER TO CHARGE AN IPAD - NO NEED FOR USB 3.0, especially with the at-the-moment-useless i/o thunderbolt port.
I hope this mini review helps some prospective buyers.
Frederick
 
Ya it helped me decide again to not buy one....even though I want one. Thanks

"but when are you going to be likely to do intensive tasks on your lap?)"........haha WHY WOULDNT YOU?
 
hi,
i experienced very strange behaviour of my macbook pro 2.2 i7 lately. its one month old and it freezed the first time after two weeks, then second time about one week later. impotant to say, one time it was under heavy load and second time it was just safari.... however what happened two days before i never experienced before! my macbook pro suddenly freezed accompanied with an awful (unbelievable) loud sound! only comparison i have is the sound of a fax machine but much much louder and defenitely much worse! i had to do a hard reset, then restart after 5 minutes same issue again and again. i was pretty sure this has to be a hardware issue..... and was preparing for sending it back to apple.
however i did a (save) restart holding down the shift key and repaired the disk preferences and since two days the mac is running without any issues... even under heavy load. so now i think maybe its a software issue again :confused: ?! what do you think?
i have installed 10.6.7....
do you think its possible a bad ram can cause somthing like that? i've installed 8gb 3rd party ram because i use the 4gb apple ram for my wifes macbook.
best regards
 
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djsound said:
Ya it helped me decide again to not buy one....even though I want one. Thanks

"but when are you going to be likely to do intensive tasks on your lap?)"........haha WHY WOULDNT YOU?
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If the issue is resolved via 10.6.7, that's cool.

If it's due to excessive thermal grease slopped all over the CPU and GPU, that's not cool. Sorry for the pun. But no computer is going to last long running at 100C, never mind running stable.

I'd love to get a 2011 model, but not when a premium price of $2200 (or $2500 for 17") is being paid for a product where even a $1400 piece of PC plastic with the same CPU and nearly-comparable GPU can't be pushed higher than 70C and still run rock-solid, there's a problem.
 
thermodynamic said:
If the issue is resolved via 10.6.7, that's cool.

If it's due to excessive thermal grease slopped all over the CPU and GPU, that's not cool. Sorry for the pun. But no computer is going to last long running at 100C, never mind running stable.

I'd love to get a 2011 model, but not when a premium price of $2200 (or $2500 for 17") is being paid for a product where even a $1400 piece of PC plastic with the same CPU and nearly-comparable GPU can't be pushed higher than 70C and still run rock-solid, there's a problem.
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The 'thermal paste' was one computer out of one factory - have you opened up your computer to see whether it is the same in your one? I've said it once and I'll say it again, until there are a number of people where each have opened their computers that have been assembled at different factories one can only assume it is an isolated issue at one factory rather than something that is an across the board problem.

As for your comparison with the 'PC laptop' - you're comparing a desktop replacement with a mobile workstation, the two aren't even comparable. If you are going to compare please compare like with like, or more correctly, two laptops that actually get the same amount of battery life rather than the proverbial $1400 laptop that has a power capacity of 2 hours.

Btw, the issue being resolved regarding 10.6.7 might be great for some but what about the 2011 users who also want to run Adobe Creative Suite which has been hit by a Type 1 font bug? a stable computer but corrupted PDFs coming out the other end as a result.

Edit: I'm waiting till the end of the year before I upgrade my iMac, MacBook and purchase an iPhone.
 
MrNomNoms said:
As for your comparison with the 'PC laptop' - you're comparing a desktop replacement with a mobile workstation, the two aren't even comparable. If you are going to compare please compare like with like, or more correctly, two laptops that actually get the same amount of battery life rather than the proverbial $1400 laptop that has a power capacity of 2 hours.
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We're talking about stability here, we don't need to compare stability to a laptop that has equal battery life. Completely unrelated characteristics.
 
Lockup/Overheating

Is this still an issue? Or are later models receiving a better thermal paste application, and better drivers from AMD?
 
MrNomNoms said:
The 'thermal paste' was one computer out of one factory - have you opened up your computer to see whether it is the same in your one? I've said it once and I'll say it again, until there are a number of people where each have opened their computers that have been assembled at different factories one can only assume it is an isolated issue at one factory rather than something that is an across the board problem.

As for your comparison with the 'PC laptop' - you're comparing a desktop replacement with a mobile workstation, the two aren't even comparable. If you are going to compare please compare like with like, or more correctly, two laptops that actually get the same amount of battery life rather than the proverbial $1400 laptop that has a power capacity of 2 hours.

Btw, the issue being resolved regarding 10.6.7 might be great for some but what about the 2011 users who also want to run Adobe Creative Suite which has been hit by a Type 1 font bug? a stable computer but corrupted PDFs coming out the other end as a result.

Edit: I'm waiting till the end of the year before I upgrade my iMac, MacBook and purchase an iPhone.
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There's a long @ss thread and it looks like far more than ONE computer with excessive amounts of TP.
Scary thing being the Thermal Paste and Thermal issues probably would not come into play until a year or more down the line and bad news for non AppleCare purchasers.

With that said, the "fix" didn't seem to do too much and maybe/hopefully that was due to launch rush....I would love to know if one just off the line is as "fugly" internally....biggest thing (besides the lure of a full 2012 refresh) that's holding me back from my first MBP (or Mac "PC") purchase (outside of the many iPods and 2 iPads I've owned).
 
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