You just know that Steve Jobs is pretty upset with Nvidia right now. Reports are popping up detailing video problems currently being suffered by the new 17-inch MacBook Pro. It seems that, for some people, whenever the 9600M is turned on the screen displays all sorts of nasty tearing and color deformities. That picture up there shows the extent to the damage.
Right now, there’s a few work-arounds. One, switching to the less powerful 9400M seems to eliminate the problem. Too bad the whole point of buying a MacBook Pro is so that you benefit from the power of the discrete 9600M; trying playing WoW using the 9400M! Two, you can restart the computer, which seems to temporarily fix the issue. Of course, a temporary work-around isn’t exactly optimal, nor is is something you should have to do after having shelled out nearly $3,000.
So far, no one knows exactly what’s going on here. Is this a truly widespread problem, or did just a few users win the Unlucky Lottery? (History says this could well be a widespread problem.) If it is a proper problem, who’s to blame, Apple or Nvidia?
And what’s all this I hear about Macs being rock-solid or whatever? It’d be nice to know that buying a premium laptop—I think it’s fair to call the 17-inch MacBook Pro a premium laptop—would preclude you from having to deal with such glitches.
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lol overpriced pieces of crap
No freakin’ joke.
A MAC is nothing more than a white pc. PC’s are known for having random little issues like that why should a MAC pc be any different.
LCDs have been an issue with Mac laptops for quite some time.
I don’t know why but I just got a scene from Rocky IV jump into my head. You know, the one where he’s fighting the Russian at the end and finally lands one across the guys face and he bleeds and the trainer screams out “YOU SEE! HE IS JUST A MAN!”. Well, to the Apple fanboys out there – IT IS JUST A COMPUTER. Not a way of life. And it is, apparently, not immune to problems…much like a PC.
All I can say is that’s what you get for thinking Mac’s are HIGH AND MIGHTY. I am so sick of the people that thing that they are better than you because they can afford a MAC and they think all windows users suck.
Mac is nothing more than OVERPRICED POS…. So get your thumbs out your butt and get off your high horse because YOU ARE NOT BETTER than US…. Look at how much you have to pay in to have your OVERPRICED machine fixed….
I’m not disputing that Macs are indeed nicely designed where you can see but piles of crap where you can’t with QC that has more in common with an American car than any other computer manufacturer, but It’s likely an NVidia issue.
I’ve had similar problems on my 8400M’d Vaio when waking it up from sleep on an external monitor doing 1920 x 1200. A res change, refresh rate change or suchlike gets rid of the problem, but since I usually work on the Intel IGP on the Sony’s it’s not been anywhere near as annoying a problem as it might be otherwise.
That’s also not to say Apple regularly has problem panels as well – I heard Jobs joke once about everyone else getting Apple’s panel castoffs, but from my experience with multiple Macbook Pro / Apple Cinema Display returns / repairs due to crap screens I would have said the opposite is the case.
Looks like “Plus ca change” with the new unibodies – it’s just that if you don’t opt for the matte option available on the 17-inch (the choice of which apparently has its own set of issues), you can’t actually tell how much that screen sucks on the new ‘megaglare’ glass-fronted machines because you’re forever moving your head around like a Bollywood dancer trying to actually see what’s on the frackin’ screen in anything but pitch black.