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Macbook pro recall possible?

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pageday

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Nvidia Inc was confirmed the defect of 8600/8400 graphic chip over heating problem. Some of the manufactures such as HP planned to recall the defective product. Any chance apple recall it too?
 
Highly unlikely, since the Nvidia problem isn't an immediate safety issue like the Notebook Battery was.

It isn't going to explode, catch on fire, etc.
 
I'm sure that apple will fix any issue you have with it. from what i have herd they are pretty good about that kind of thing
 
Sun Baked said:
Highly unlikely, since the Nvidia problem isn't an immediate safety issue like the Notebook Battery was.

It isn't going to explode, catch on fire, etc.
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I don't know anything about a battery recall... how do I find out if my battery is part of the recall?
thanks
 
Even if HP, Dell, Asus, Acer etc ordered a recall on all the affected nvidea GPU based laptops, I doubt apple would follow suit, they'd probably claim the GPUs they used were custom jobs that aren't affected, it would take a class action lawsuit for them to do a recall.
 
Schtumple said:
Even if HP, Dell, Asus, Acer etc ordered a recall on all the affected nvidea GPU based laptops, I doubt apple would follow suit, they'd probably claim the GPUs they used were custom jobs that aren't affected, it would take a class action lawsuit for them to do a recall.
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Exactly. Apple have (thus far) clearly decided to deal with this on an individual basis, which would hopefully negate any possible class action. If you are still under warranty, or have Applecare, you will be covered for a replacement/repair should the nVidia go pear-shaped. However, the only possible difficulty may lie in the fact that Apple most likely would replace them with something similar. Having said that, warranties/AppleCare will cover it.
Cheers
 
My MacBook Pro just started having GPU problems yesterday. When I turn on the computer I get no video at all, but the Mac boots fine and I can access it over the network.

If I play with the laptop for an hour or so, removing/inserting the battery and rebooting a bunch of times, I can eventually get it to show video. But it's a pain in the butt.

I'm probably going to wait for Apple to update the MBP, then I'll just buy the new one and repair/resell my current one. Once Apple starts seeing these things come in for repair en masse, they'll probably do something about it. But until then, they won't do anything.
 
You might see a recall in a few years...if the failure rate for certain MBP models is very high, somebody will do/say something.
 
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