First unit MBP, Santa Rosa/Merom 2.2GHz, manufactured in February (just before the launch of Penryn refresh models), showed signs of graphical corruption after 3 months of use. Got worse at the 5th month, did a logic board exchange.
Still on the first unit, but with logic board exchange, graphic chip showed similar corruption of the previous logic board (that had been used for approx. 5 month) just after 8 hours of use. Requested for a replacement unit.
Replacement unit arrived, Santa Rosa/Merom 2.4GHz, manufactured in June, showed a different kind of graphical issue after 6 hours of use. Further usage throughout the week exposed more severe graphical corruption and system freezes.
Never really gamed a lot on these machines, most of the time are just usual iTunes, Front Row, QuickTime, and internet browsing.. with the occasional NFSroStreet and GRID.
So what happened w/ your latest replacement??? You left us w/ a bit of a cliff hanger there.
I just bought mine last week & it should arrive tomorrow.
Man, this nVidia thing sure is good for the AppleCare business!
Currently having my uni studies at the moment so I can't actually loose downtime with getting my Mac away being serviced.
I'd suppose it's gonna be more logic board exchange and replacements to come till I get a working one.
Something I've just discovered today.. another to the list of faults..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDv-TQx4MV0
I thought it would be a good idea for everyone who owns a MBP with the 8600 GT graphics card to post their experience with their computer.
Namely:
When was the machine bought?
Have you had any graphics related problems with the machine?
How intensive if your graphic card use? Do you play a lot of games?
I am especially interested in users who have had their machine over a year.
I bought my MBP 7 weeks ago, and I have had no problems. I don't really play intensive games on my machine.
I have a MBP 2.2 it's over a year old, brought it in June 2007. Since upgraded to 4GB ram.
Had it stripped a few times for upgrading, change keyboards and change of thermal paste.
Recently had the left fan replaced... LOL... Other than that, I've never had any problems with it,
doesn't even crash!!
Thought the temps do reach 100°C regularly. I use it for d.t.p, photo editing and motion graphics
- i don't have time for games, the bar is more interesting when i'm not working.
BTW, I leave it on constantly, never put it to sleep and I don't even sleep the display..
and it's still working just fine!! All those rumour is just BS man..
Besides, i have AppleCare for the next two years and laptop insurance.
Today I opened my MBP from sleep to notice the colours all screwy and everything distorted. I snapped some pictures from my iPhone (please see below). The colours on the screen were different when I first opened the lid, and they changed like those in the picture after about 10 seconds.
I shut the lid again, waited for the computer to enter sleep and opened the lid, and everything was okay. Is this the beginning of graphics problems for me?