You bought an inferior product with a faulty graphics card because you didn't like the color?
Why do consumers who buy computers for curb appeal buy pro machines!? Have fun surfing youtube and updating your facebook.
Well, more than a few of us would be under the impression this guy did make the right decision, and ended up with an actual pro machine, not some extended version of the Macbook series of bling/bling fashion statement PC lookalike computers. The fact is, nobody knows how reliable the new machines are going to be. There are already reports of dust getting between the glass and the screen, giving people fits and already griping and returning the units as if it's a warranty issue. Hmmm, looks more like a basic design flaw, which you'll have to live with on the new machines. What else might crop up? How about that newfangled chipset, untested so far in the field... designed by... hmmm.... nVidia. Aren't they the same folks all you MBP GPU blasters have been wanting blood from, even if your own MBP still works fine? Who knows, right? The last generation MBPs certainly are a better value pricewise, and some folks would say, stylewise, too. No real sacrifice in performance, and the option of a matte display and DVI port, two FW ports, 400 and 800. No need to slow the FW800 port down with FW400 peripherals. One machine still speaks "pro," the new one speaks "consumer" (glossy, chicklet keys, loss of ports, all about shiny looks like pc laptops in discount stores.) Ask yourself whether you depend on your laptop to earn a living or it's just a toy for you to web surf and post to your MySpace, watch YouTube vids, too, like you criticized the OP for doing. If you do depend on it as a work tool, the fashion crap will just not matter, and the ridiculous changes for the sake of trendy/bling-bling eye candy appeal just won't cut it with you. Otherwise, you should love the new model just fine.
What I'm saying is one choice (previous generation) is battle-tested over the years, the design is classic, it's a workhorse, and the known issues are out there, and acknowledged. It isn't 100% failure for the GPU, despite some "experts" punditry to the contrary. Mine still works. No problems. I know lots of other examples of folks who have had exactly ZERO problems with our MBP, of any type. Many examples of this.
It's just statistically not true that all MBP GeForce8600M GT GPUs will fail within 2 years under normal use. Or 3 years, or even 4. A certain run of the chips had some problems, but not necessarily all of them. Apple knows when the possibly affected GPUs were used, and probably has all the serial numbers already in their database waiting to see how many actually fail. I have no doubt that all the faulty ones will be replaced without charge when this all sorts itself out.
To me, the last generation MBP has been a reliable tool so far, and historically it has been for years. It looks great, is a solid professional tool, and sure didn't need the superficial glitz to become it's signature feature. Lose the black cheap plastic keyboard, black shiny bezel and mirrored display, bring back 2nd FW port, DVI port, but keep the rest of the new stuff, like solid frame, new dual video card system, faster RAM, etc. This shouldn't have been that complicated, Apple. Just listen to your customers who already used the pro product, and give the consumers their model, too. How hard would that have been?
