Hi guys, I will be buying a MBP in 2 weeks for U and I've heard about the GPU failing in many MBP's. I was just wondering if I should wait for apple to take care of this or buy now since the revision I'll be buying won't be affected by this at all? I'm not always up-to-date with apple's hardware updates so I don't really know if this is a problem for all MBP's including the ones they are selling right now. What do you guys think?
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Will the Nvidia GPU failure affect my future MBP?
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Nobody really knows...sometime after September. I predict the update will be in November.
I have a feeling montevina will be out much sooner than you guys think. Remember that its been delayed for a while already so all intel has to do is just ship it to the oem and wait about a week of manufacturing and just sell it.
So...Penryn was release in early January but the new MacBook Pro didnt come until February 26th...
There is also the Back to School Promotion and Apple will probably want to clear their stock out before releasing an update.
So the more/better reason to releasing the montevina now so that apple can compete with other oem vendors and you get a free ipod.
What better reason not to release it soon?
Also the montevina has already been delayed by 2 months now and I'm pretty sure in those 2 months apple has already stopped manufacturing or lessened it greatly of the current mbp.
I wouldnt be surprised if montevina popped out tomorrow or even next tuesday.
But I'm crossing my fingers and hoping it wont be released tomorrow so that my mbp will sell and then I'll wait the next few weeks for the montevina.
I would like to have the mbp before starting university. Therefore, I'll cross my fingers for an update in the next 2 weeks.
Yeah I go more for this theory, macbooks got updated in october when I got mine for the back to school special. Macbook pros got updated last year on november. So I tend to think this will happen again.