Faolan
11th of October 2008 (Sat), 10:05
This is now official from Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377
It might be worth keeping an eye on your machine if you bought one during this period (05/07-09-08) .
The fault lies with nVidia and they still haven't totally come clean in regards to who, what and how many machines are affected by this fault (both PC and Mac). The fault is in the manufacturing process and is at substrate level causing the chips to fail. To date most manufacturers who's have this fault have ramped up the cooling fans on laptops to avoid unnecessary heat but this has had the negative impact of shortening battery life.
Just a friendly heads up to MBP owners. Just do a Google will give the background to this issue and also possible pending lawsuit(s).
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377
It might be worth keeping an eye on your machine if you bought one during this period (05/07-09-08) .
The fault lies with nVidia and they still haven't totally come clean in regards to who, what and how many machines are affected by this fault (both PC and Mac). The fault is in the manufacturing process and is at substrate level causing the chips to fail. To date most manufacturers who's have this fault have ramped up the cooling fans on laptops to avoid unnecessary heat but this has had the negative impact of shortening battery life.
Just a friendly heads up to MBP owners. Just do a Google will give the background to this issue and also possible pending lawsuit(s).