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2011 MacBook Pros Crashing Under Load?

Well, in the meanwhile you guys can just use windows 7 which runs beautifully on them. I haven't had any crashes on windows 7 yet, after a few weeks of use.

I caused a kernel panic on OS X by tethering my iphone 4 via USB and then turning on uTorrent. The moment uTorrent is enabled BAM, it asks me in many languages to hold down the power button (both the 2.0 and 2.2 high end model). A few people have reported this tethering issue too.

But I'm happy with my machine regardless (or irregardless, as some would say), it doesn't overheat, no dead pixels, fans are unobtrusive, plays games beautifully, encodes, etc. When Apple fixes the issues on OS X I'll start using it more but until then I'm happy using my MBP as a windows machine.
 
zeiter said:
Does this only affect MBP with the 6750M videocard?
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A good question, and one I'd ask.

I'm on the base 15" w/ the 6490 and have yet to be able to reproduce this. I'm still building boost, but my crappy internet connection is making it take forever. I'll head to campus in a bit, which should rectify that and I'll see if anything happens.
 
I got one for a fellow employee and he has noticed that it is locking up frequently under load. We have been joking about me trading for my 2009 i5 because mine seems to run smoother!
 
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bassfingers said:
lilo777 said:
I built my own PC 3 months ago (I do not do laptops for I get them for my job). It has not crashed or frozen even once. Obviously - no viruses (it's Windows 7)
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that's impressive. Have you turned it on yet?
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At this point, Windows offers a more stable OS experience than OS X. How did this happen? Well for one thing, MS is a huge company with huge resources - most of them devoted towards Windows development. Meanwhile, Apple seems to have shifted so much focus toward iOS and the iDevices that Macs are suffering as a result. It's become a cliche at this point but I'm afraid it's probably true.
 
I'm buying Parallels tonight so I should be able to put my 13" through its paces to see if I can reproduce it.

In under 48 hours my only problem was a random Skype crash, which, from what I can see is an ordinary occurance. ;)
 
Udden said:
The freeze can't be reproduced in Windows so how can this be about build quality?
Right, It can't. It's software one way or another.
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That is not entirely true. Even it is a hardware problem (and I have no idea whether it is or not), it could very well be that the MacOS driver is more optimized or tries to utilize a certain feature of the cpu/gpu that makes the hardware fail where the windows driver doesn't.
While it may be possible to circumvent the issue with a software patch (ie disabling that specific call) one could still think of it as a build/hardware problem, since the functionality should have been there.

T.
 
two mbp 15" 2.3ghz affected and replaced, apple care told us "they are working on it"

we had this issue on two machines we recently ordered; apple care told us they send replacement machines. we blogged about this issues and the news at http://j.mp/dLSqgy

i can recommend to tell apple to send the replacements before they pick up the faulty machines, so it is easier to transfer the data already on it. (apple care even suggested it this way)
 
Well, this pretty much seals the deal. Think I'm going to grab a refurb 2010 Pro instead of the 2011's, unless Apple manages to somehow sort this out by the time I pull the trigger (hopefully later this week).
 
crashes related to iphone syncing/usb or usb tethering?

appleguru1 said:
Add me to the list of people this is affecting. I read about this this morning and thought I might have just gotten lucky since I hadn't seen this happen yet on my 15" 2.2GHz i7 w/8GB ram and the AMD Radeon HD 6750M... Then about 10 minutes later, while watching hulu and syncing my iPhone, BOOM
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it might be that this issue is related to iphone syncing, as some other posts in the macrumors forum suggest. can you try if your machine crashes without iphone syncing under heavy load?
 
littyboy said:
Sucks for you guys who have the new macbook pros.

Guess what, apple ain't gonna fix squat.

I have the i7 2010 model and it kept freezing and it was a known issue.

You know what apple did? Turn the other direction and acted like nothing happened. Even brought it in the apple store to get logic board replaced and still freezes.

PRetty stupid to be having problems for a $2000 machine don't you think?
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That's *your* situation. I've run so many things on my 2010 Core i7 Duo at once and never had a freeze like people are mentioning, This includes running Windows 7, Linux, and numerous emulators all at the same time (so let's not pretend they aren't CPU/RAM/Graphically intensive).
 
Funny my 2011 MBP (15" 2.2ghz i7 8gb RAM) hadn't done this at all before yesterday, in which whilst doing a not so complex task on the mac, the whole thing froze.

I couldn't press anything - I waited a minute and it has been fine since. I hadn't thought about it until I say this story lol...
 
Can someone please confirm that when the freeze happens and they have to reboot via the power button that there is a loading bar under the apple icon when booting back up?

I'm new to Mac and had no issue until 2 nights ago where my MBP became dead slow and had to hard reboot. Ive been told bya friend that the loading bar is a check disk thing, so I'm just wondering if this issue is linked or not!

Thanks!!
 
I'm on the 15" 2.2GHz, i'm currently encoding 1080p MKV to Apple TV in Handbrake and then i managed to open 5 HD YouTube videos in separate windows in Safari... for 10 minutes then closed them then came here to post this.
Handbrake is still encoding and honestly, it's not slowed at all apart from one YouTube video was a bit jumpy in video playback.

I've done the tests from the wiki with no hang or lock up either.

It's only locked up once whilst playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 on Win 7 but that happens on my gaming PC aswell, i blame the game.
 
No issues here whatsoever. Go figure.

No matter how much I push the machine. I did the Handbrake 1080p file conversion and then the Dev Null/Photobooth with effects/VMWare/Spaces tests together in clamshell mode whilst driving an ACD for 10 minutes...it never blinked.

I do occasionally have the flicker issue on the LED ACD though. Apple needs to overhaul the GPU drivers quick.

PS- 2.2GHz Core i7 & Auto Gpx Switching has never been switched off.
 
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This happened in 2008!

The keyboard and mouse lockup while the machine continues to run happens to my 2008 MBP all the time. It's infuriating. Nice to see they've addressed the issue!
 
I have a new 15" Macbook Pro and a couple weeks ago Expose crashed and I couldn't force quit anything and he mouse pointer wasn't moving, then this pop up came up that said "One or more of your programs has quit unexpectedly. Please hold down the power button then press it again to restart your computer."
 
First of all, to all you windows d-bag's, go to another forum and you will see that every laptop has issues, often much greater than the products apple makes. It's just that when something goes wrong with a windows based product, everyone expects it, so no one seems to care.

Second, I have tried to re-create this problem and was unable to. I run my machine under a constant heavy load with Parallels and the CS5 suite most of the time. I went to the wiki and tried the crash test but it failed to crash my machine (though I only let it run for thirty seconds).

I know that when the 2011 MBP's first came out the ifixit site noted issues with too much thermal past. Just a thought.

I feel for you guys who are experiencing this problem. It's frustrating because when I used to rely on Windoze machines for productivity I had many, many, many similar problems.

2011 MBP 17" 8 gigs 256 SSD 2.2 quad AMD 6750.
 
WiiDSmoker said:
Seems like every product Apple puts out is having some form of issues. Never encounter any on my Win 7 machine that I built.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBook

Quality issues

In late November 2003, a number of iBook G3 users reported display problems with their laptops. In December 2003, a group of users headed by Michael Johnson and Bill Owen sought to file a class action suit against Apple. In response, Apple initiated the "iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program" in January 2004, which covered the expense of repairing affected iBooks for three years.[3][4] In June 2004, the Repair Extension Program was expanded to cover "all White G3 iBooks".[5][6]
The iBook G4 seemed to suffer from display problems similar to those of the iBook G3, but was not covered by the repair extension program. Owners of iBooks that required expensive repairs for these problems submitted new class action lawsuits in December 2006.[7]
On May 2, 2007, the Danish Consumer Board published an extensive report[8][9] made by an external party concerning the Apple iBook G4 logic board issue. A press release[10] referred to the global consequences this could have for possible guarantee claims.

Every so often something happens. I'd still take a Mac over a hand-built hackjob Windoze box any day. Even one that's due a firmware fix.

Despite that, Apple rates #1 for customer satisfaction year after year. Looks like Dell, Acer, Asus and the also-rans have more problems. But of course, they barely make the headlines because they aint Apple. And when you pick up one of these non-Apple machines, expectations are pretty low going in, anyway.
 
Oh good news, considering the fact that my 15'' 2.2 i7 ThunderBook is somewhere on a shipping truck heading to my home. I'm guessing Apple will issue a firmware update soon.

Edit: Just btw, Here's a picture of the thermal paste from ifixit.com.
 
All 5 new 2011's 2.2 6750M are crashing on us at our office. Not impressed at all. Handbrake crashed on me yesterday (thought I was fine till then). Funny thing is I left it, it finished the transcoding and was on the network but nothing but the mouse moved.

This really is amazingly annoying having been bitten by apple twice now. I don't think we're staying on this train unless they fix it ASAP.
 
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