New Faster Sandy Bridge MacBook Pros Next Week?

[kingtj]

re: bad video

Yeah.... there are probably places out there who can actually repair this issue, but with surface-mounted chips like the nVidia, it's not as easy as having an electronics repair guy unsolder the old one and solder a replacement chip back in place.

For example, see: http://www.circuitmart.com/mart/49330.shtml

I believe these nVidia video chips were failing because heat eventually caused layers of the chip to separate from each other. That's the type of thing specialized circuit board repair places can actually fix.

It does boot, but the display is completely dead (ok, backlight works). So i cannot sell it on eBay or somewhere else. And no, all methods like NVRAM & SMC reset do not help.

 

[blue22]

almost nailed it...

Here's next weeks update folks:

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+ Bluetooth 4.0
and a BTO option for 2.5GHz i7 on the high-end 15" and 17".

You were very close. The only difference between your prediction and what happened today was the HDD capacity sizes for the 13" MBP's are now bigger (500GB and 750 GB for the 2.4 GHz and 2.8 GHZ 13' models respectively) and the AMD GPU's are a tad stronger for the other sizes like so:


- 15" 2.0 GHz + AMD Radeon HD 6490M is now 15" 2.2 GHz + AMD Radeon HD 6750M
(also, 256GB GDDR5 increased to 512GB GDDR5)

- 15" 2.2 GHz + AMD Radeon HD 6750M is now 15" 2.4 GHz + AMD Radeon HD 6770M

- 17" 2.3 GHz + AMD Radeon HD 6750M is now 17" 2.4 GHz + AMD Radeon HD 6770M


But still, kudos on a good guess!