Radeongate - all hope is lost.

[MagicBoy]

Out of interest, was your MacBook Pro in warranty when you asked Apple to repair your machine? Just trying to find out whether they repaired it under AppleCare or under UK consumer law.

Thanks!

Out of Warranty.

 

[maflynn]

One wonders why the '09 models didn't experience any widespread form of NVIDIAgate.

I know, so I guess that's giving me a glimmer of hope, though as time goes on, I'm leaning more towards selling my 2012 rMBP next year. I may hold off, if we things appear to be quiet on the dGPU front with 2012 rMBPs

 

[SarcasticJoe]

The stuff I said was information passed on from an Apple employee... my friend was calling him because I was having ACD issues and the laptop issue was brought up in the conversation.

And yes I'm talking about the 2010 i7 model with graphics switching. I've had a 2007 to play around with and it didn't have such issues... the guy on the line also mentioned that it was a very good generation MBP.

The NDA stuff is true, that's why he was conveying it to my friend who is also an Apple corporate employee. The guy dissing Apple's own products was unaware that other people were listening in on the conversation. And your point about how common this issue is is true, but I've only dealt with two of these computers that I can remember and they've both had the same failure.

In that case my personal guess is that your friend ether misheard or misunderstood the guy, is pulling your leg to see you go around like chicken little and yelling "the sky is falling" or just a compulsive liar. I used to have a friend who genuinely was a compulsive liar and he would say things like that all the time.

Also, two failures of the same fault hardly makes a trend and it's even less believable when you notice that the flood of failed machines that this would cause if it was true is simply nowhere to be seen.

 

[bradleyjx]

Just depot-ed my Late '11 15"; thankfully the guy I worked with @ the Apple store knew about this, so it was a quick process. (it was working fine in the store, but I had video/pictures of the issue the night before)

Also, for anyone worried about this, I was upfront on the modifications that I've done with it (optibay hard drive replacement, RAM & SSD upgrades); YMMV with different reps, but this wasn't a problem here.

I plan on pushing it hard once I get it back. I have a good backup laptop, but there are a few things I have to trust this one for. (sidenote - this'd be significantly easier for me if the minis were updated any time in the last six months..)

 

[SarcasticJoe]

The stuff I said was information passed on from an Apple employee... my friend was calling him because I was having ACD issues and the laptop issue was brought up in the conversation.

You can claim that it comes from Tim Cook himself, but it's still all just hearsay.

And yes I'm talking about the 2010 i7 model with graphics switching. I've had a 2007 to play around with and it didn't have such issues... the guy on the line also mentioned that it was a very good generation MBP.

I've only dealt with two of these computers that I can remember and they've both had the same failure.

The fact that you've single machine and that didn't have the problem the model is know for and two that suffered from a fault their model is not currently known for is literally meaningless. You can't call a sample of one or two any kind of valid evidence specially when there's probably millions that have been made of each model.

To me this just sounds like ether you or the friend you claim to have is a compulsive liar. Like I said, I used to have a friend who was a compulsive liar and he used to tell me this kind of stuff all the time.

 

[Zwhaler]

In that case my personal guess is that your friend ether misheard or misunderstood the guy, is pulling your leg to see you go around like chicken little and yelling "the sky is falling" or just a compulsive liar. I used to have a friend who genuinely was a compulsive liar and he would say things like that all the time.

Also, two failures of the same fault hardly makes a trend and it's even less believable when you notice that the flood of failed machines that this would cause if it was true is simply nowhere to be seen.

Yes what I was trying to say is the point about 2 machines having this issue hardly means it was widespread, I was simply reporting my experience. And this guy isn't a compulsive liar, why is it so hard to believe that the display rep was talking on speakerphone about about MBP failures being a common issue..? It's okay if you don't believe it, but that doesn't mean we made this up, it just means you're a skeptic, which is okay.

 

[SarcasticJoe]

Yes what I was trying to say is the point about 2 machines having this issue hardly means it was widespread, I was simply reporting my experience. And this guy isn't a compulsive liar, why is it so hard to believe that the display rep was talking on speakerphone about about MBP failures being a common issue..? It's okay if you don't believe it, but that doesn't mean we made this up, it just means you're a skeptic, which is okay.

As I've already said, if it was true there would be a clearly visible epidemic, but we don't have a clearly visible epidemic.

Thus you're figuratively running in circles, going: "The sky is falling! The sky is falling"

 

[Zwhaler]

As I've already said, if it was true there would be a clearly visible epidemic, but we don't have a clearly visible epidemic.

Thus you're figuratively running in circles, going: "The sky is falling! The sky is falling"

I'd say it's somewhere in between.

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