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Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Apple Over 2011 MacBook Pro Graphics Issues
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I'm curious why you'd respond to a topic that you clearly know nothing about?
Apple always does the right thing.
When it's in their financial best interest, or are forced to legally.
AFAIK, there were not any wide spread failures of the 2009 model - at least to my knowledge. Given that the year before and 2 after it, does have problems, its odd the 09 didn't (at least to my knowledge).
The graphics issues are also in 2010 MacBook Pros. They should also be included in the class action lawsuit. Unfortunately, the lawyers are getting all the money and I would be lucky to get a $10.00 iTunes card out of the settlement (it cost me $300 for a logic board) 
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The repair program was for a limited time and it was a stealth program.
.The repair program was for a limited time and it was a stealth program.
I had this issue and went through three motherboards. They finally replaced the laptop with a 2012 model.
Same! Although it took a lot of jumping through hoops and at a cost to me travelling 30 miles to the nearest store on separate days totalling 120 miles of fuel and losing my MacBook for over. Week.
I had to email Tim Cook personally and get the escalations team to sort it.
They were very good but I have a feeling they only helped due to EU/UK consumer law.
Apple should or resolved this long ago!
Despite this clearly being USA only I wish you guys luck and would gladly give my details to prove I'm just another customer who has had this design flaw.
Why is a government regulatory requirement Apples fault?
Go bitch and moan to the federal government if you have an issue with lead-free solder products.
I think all such issues should be fixed at no cost, since unless you dropped the computer, there is nothing a user can do to cause issues. Basically computer users are buying a machine that costs as much as a car, and are hoping for the best that it simply doesn't randomly fail. If it does, they're screwed, because warranty only covers ONE YEAR, which is unheard of for any other product that money can buy, be it an electric toothbrush or a car, while the computer has an expected useful life of at least three years.
If it fails and you did nothing to cause it to fail, it's Apple's fault!! The computer has almost no mechanical parts, the only way it can fail is if there's a manufacturing defect at the time of production. Unless you drop it or take a bath with it, it can't be your fault.
If it fails and you did nothing to cause it to fail, it's Apple's fault!! The computer has almost no mechanical parts, the only way it can fail is if there's a manufacturing defect at the time of production. Unless you drop it or take a bath with it, it can't be your fault.
Those are different sort of lawsuits. Apple won't replace an entire screen because they lied about the size. In this case, actual reparations to defendants will be replacement of actual logic boards. Of course lawyers will get theirs, no argument but if the end consumers get the benefit of a recall program then everybody wins (except Apple).
I've got an early-2011 MBP sitting on the shelf collecting dust. It's been sitting there since it started displaying pink lines all over the screen (primarily in areas with white a background) all of a sudden two months ago.
I took it to the Apple Store and the genius said it was a problem with the display itself since the problem didn't occur on my external displays -- just on the MBP display. That didn't make sense to me. It definitely looked to me like it was a graphics card/logic board issue.
He said since my machine was five months out of the extended AppleCare warranty, it was going to cost several hundred dollars to have a new display installed. I wasn't going to do that since I was almost certain the problem was not related to the LCD itself but rather to the internals of the laptop.
I left the Apple Store and went to Best Buy next door because they had the 2014 rMBPs on sale for $150 off.
I've just had bad luck with MBPs, it seems. My very first was an early-2008 that had to have the logic board replaced; and then once AppleCare ran out on it, I bought the early-2011. Now I'm hoping the same issue doesn't befall the 2014 rMBPs.
Maybe if the class-action is successful, they'll fix the 2011 MBP under warranty and I can sell it. As it stands right now, it's pretty much worthless after only three and a half years. Pathetic for a $2,500 laptop.
I took it to the Apple Store and the genius said it was a problem with the display itself since the problem didn't occur on my external displays -- just on the MBP display. That didn't make sense to me. It definitely looked to me like it was a graphics card/logic board issue.
He said since my machine was five months out of the extended AppleCare warranty, it was going to cost several hundred dollars to have a new display installed. I wasn't going to do that since I was almost certain the problem was not related to the LCD itself but rather to the internals of the laptop.
I left the Apple Store and went to Best Buy next door because they had the 2014 rMBPs on sale for $150 off.
I've just had bad luck with MBPs, it seems. My very first was an early-2008 that had to have the logic board replaced; and then once AppleCare ran out on it, I bought the early-2011. Now I'm hoping the same issue doesn't befall the 2014 rMBPs.
Maybe if the class-action is successful, they'll fix the 2011 MBP under warranty and I can sell it. As it stands right now, it's pretty much worthless after only three and a half years. Pathetic for a $2,500 laptop.
I guess I got lucky. Mine (17" early MB Pro) hasn't had one issue since day one. <knocks on wood>
You can go to an Apple store and have them run a VST test on a MacBook Pro. It's quick and will tell you if the graphics are dying.
Only good thing about an Apple depot repair is that they will fix your device for a set fee no matter what is wrong. The repair covers everything so they would have replaced your display and any internals needed to get it working again. They also replace RAM modules and hard drives (if necessary)
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Oh look, it's this comment again. The same one we see on *any* lawsuit article.
This issue isn't limited to MacBooks. There's plenty of iMac users with bad video cards which appears to be essentially the same issue.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3867557?start=0&tstart=0
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3867557?start=0&tstart=0
I did this. Baked it with a nice cheese and bread crumb topping ... seems like it made things worse.
Had the issue on my 2011, AppleCare replaced with a 2012, and now I'm waiting for that to bite the dust. Quite a few people who use CUDA for Adobe CC or other computational work have been reporting graphics glitches which have resulted in logic board replacements due to defective GPUs.
Moral of the story - don't get a MacBook with a dGPU
Moral of the story - don't get a MacBook with a dGPU