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8600GT MBP owners who HAVEN'T experienced a failure.

Late 2008 model, bought in October of last year, and no problems so far.

I'm debating whether to get AppleCare to cover any issues, including this one. Just in case.
 
Early 2008, prior owner purchased this in October after the new ones were released. Haven't experienced any problems and hopefully never will.
 
iShater said:
Late 2008 model, bought in October of last year, and no problems so far.

I'm debating whether to get AppleCare to cover any issues, including this one. Just in case.
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Apple will fix this issue for free for three years regardless of applecare. Though I think Applecare is usually a good idea :)
 
Got an 8 month old Samsung P55 at work which seems to be affected. Blue screens all over the place, all referring to the Video hardware. This started like 2 months ago and got so bad now, that there's a blue screen every time I'm connecting my second display.
 
cmaier said:
Apple will fix this issue for free for three years regardless of applecare. Though I think Applecare is usually a good idea :)
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Indeed but only for three years. Then after that you are on your own which means that most people's MBPs will just fail 3-4 years into their lives. A short life at that.
 
No problems here on my '07 model. It wasn't until I started reading these forums that I even knew there was an issue.
 
I have the 2.2 Ghz SR MBP from okt. 2007. No problem yet at all. But I dont do any game anymore..
 
6-0 Prolene said:
No problems here on my '07 model. It wasn't until I started reading these forums that I even knew there was an issue.
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jiE said:
I have the 2.2 Ghz SR MBP from okt. 2007. No problem yet at all. But I dont do any game anymore..
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Unfortunately it seems that sooner or later everyone with the 8600M GT will experience a failure. At least that is what the evidence suggests. I hope that you guys are lucky but be prepared anyway.

My MBP was doing well until it failed last Friday. It lasted 22 months.
 
Nice thread necro (although better than getting tore apart by the MR crew for "starting a new thread!") but since I'm here.... mine has been running strong since release day 2008 not a single problem with anything on or in it. My wife and I (it's becoming my wife's slowly but surely and will be 100% once the new MBP drop) ride it like it's stolen as well, from all day iTuning and browsing and to gaming for hours on titles such as WoW and Warcraft 3 and L4D when I need to really release some steam - pardon the pun. Just a great laptop I still love the looks of these beauty's as well.
 
kdum8 said:
Unfortunately it seems that sooner or later everyone with the 8600M GT will experience a failure. At least that is what the evidence suggests. I hope that you guys are lucky but be prepared anyway.
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That's like saying "Sooner or later, everyone will die". All computers will eventually fail. And I'm not saying that machines with the 8600M GT will not experience a disproportionate number of failures, but the evidence does not suggest that everyone will eventually experience a failure.
 
Edge100 said:
That's like saying "Sooner or later, everyone will die". All computers will eventually fail. And I'm not saying that machines with the 8600M GT will not experience a disproportionate number of failures, but the evidence does not suggest that everyone will eventually experience a failure.
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Well no one knows for sure. Of course all computers eventually fail but it seems that anyone with a 8600M GT chip is highly likely to experience a failure within 3 years. Computers usually last a lot longer than that. Once Apple stop replacing the logic boards after 3 years has elapsed then everyone who has a failure after that is pretty screwed. Logic boards are not cheap to replace at Apple.
 
As stated in another thread:

Early 2008 (Feb)

Over 2 1/2 years 12+ hours a day running MacOSX and 2 Windows VMWare VMs.

Very heavy graphics usage as well.

No problems at all of any kind.
 
ALL OF MACBOOKS PRO manufactured between approximately May 2007 and September 2008 are destined to fail.

While there is no 100% certainty that they will actually fail, ALL of them are defect in a grade.

If you play lots of games, they will fail earlier, if you browse at most, probably not.

I have two Alus with 8600 that failed!

Yet all chips are different, means: one might not fail even under last or playing games for years, but it will be closer to a failure than the current 9600GT.
 
hundert said:
ALL OF MACBOOKS PRO manufactured between approximately May 2007 and September 2008 are destined to fail.

While there is no 100% certainty that they will actually fail, but ALL of them are defect in some way.

If you play lots of games, they will fail earlier, if you browse at most, probably not.

I have two Alus with 8600 that failed!

Yet all chips are different, means: one might not fail even under last or playing games for years, but it will be closer to a failure than the current 9600GT.
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Supposedly for those of us that get our computer GPUs replaced by Apple we are out-fitted with a "Rev 2" version of the 8600M GT chip which has different solder and therefore wont fail the same way. Whether or not this is really true I don't know. Certainly on my documentation it lists my new chip as a "Rev 2" version... Unfortunately some people with the new Rev 2 chip report that even that has failed too. So it may be that they all fail after around 2 years and that all the customers who had a second chip fitted are just sitting around waiting for that to fail too. Time will tell...
 
I have a 17" from may 08. Got the logic board fixed once from not turning on (Not graphics issue) and the logic board was replaced in october. I hope the 8600M GT fails after the new macbook pros are announced so i can claw in for a nice shiny new replacement. And best of all they would have to give me a matte display lol. ;)

* goes to game and export HD Video *
 
Still no problems after 10 months... My MBP is used daily and intensively. Mainly for Video and Photo Editing, as well as web surfing (Firefox), Email, Word Processing (Pages, iD, Word, Final Draft), run some programs that require Rosetta... and all seems to be just fine - I do use the system in 8400GT mode most of the time and I'm not using and external monitor.
 
Jon-Luke said:
Still no problems after 10 months... My MBP is used daily and intensively. Mainly for Video and Photo Editing, as well as web surfing (Firefox), Email, Word Processing (Pages, iD, Word, Final Draft), run some programs that require Rosetta... and all seems to be just fine - I do use the system in 8400GT mode most of the time and I'm not using and external monitor.
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The MBP in question is the pre-Unibody model, with the 8600M GT GPU. The MBP in your sig has 9600M GT and 9400M GPUs.
 
Jon-Luke said:
Still no problems after 10 months... My MBP is used daily and intensively. Mainly for Video and Photo Editing, as well as web surfing (Firefox), Email, Word Processing (Pages, iD, Word, Final Draft), run some programs that require Rosetta... and all seems to be just fine - I do use the system in 8400GT mode most of the time and I'm not using and external monitor.
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Edge100 said:
The MBP in question is the pre-Unibody model, with the 8600M GT GPU. The MBP in your sig has 9600M GT and 9400M GPUs.
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Yeah you don't have the 8600M GT model if you are switching chips. The Penryn MBPs only had one graphics chip. You couldn't switch. What you have is a unibody model so you are unaffected.
 
Bought mine in March 08 and haven't had a bit of problem. Of course I'm not doing something stupid like playing games on it ... that's why we have desktops.
 
colourfastt said:
Bought mine in March 08 and haven't had a bit of problem. Of course I'm not doing something stupid like playing games on it ... that's why we have desktops.
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Don't be so smug. My Santa Rosa MBP died the nvidia death and I never played games on it, either.
 
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