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Jun 01, 09 - 11:27 am Comment from: silverhawk

Shame on NVIDIA, tsk, tsk.

Jun 01, 09 - 11:36 am Comment from: jtc

@MaximumOverdrive

I dont know why Apple chose to put in Western Digital drives instead of Seagate or Hitachi..

Have a backup computer on-hand because it takes 7-10 days for the repair to be completed.

Jun 01, 09 - 12:12 pm Comment from: smyhre

Never had problems with Seagate drives, but the Western Digital drives I've had all failed or had problems within the first 2 years.

Apple replaced mine about a month ago free of charge. I was without it for only 3 days. In the meantime, a friend loaned me a MacBook and, with Time Machine, I was able to do a complete restore from my MBP data. Apple has always come through for me.

Jun 01, 09 - 12:24 pm Comment from: mossman

Nice try there Nvida, trying to create a little premature turnover of your products? hmmm?

Must be hard for Apple, having only cheap PC parts suppliers to rely upon and expecting top notch quality.

A friend's iMac G5 (iSight) logic board failed just outside the 3 year AppleCare warranty period, and hers is far from the only one from that generation. That generation iMac didn't qualify for Apple's extended iMac G5 logic board replacement program, either.

So save the snarky remarks about NVIDIA going for premature turnover, either Apple's doing the same thing; or, just like Apple, NVIDIA occasionally ships a bad batch.

Just had mine done twice, paid for it the first time, then when I had to take it back 2 weeks later for a second round, they informed me that I should not have been charged for the first. Both repairs were done same day. Now all I have to do is wait a week or 3 for the refund.

I have both a iMac with ATI video card and a macbook pro with Nvidia. The ATI seem to be more stable and satisfactory. Im not power user, so I dont need the most powerful video cards, just the stable one are good enough for most users.

Jun 01, 09 - 12:58 pm Comment from: silverhawk

I've got a Hitachi in my late 2006 MBP. It works fine. My son, the guy who lives in the basement playing video games, had a Hitachi drive on some gaming computer go out after 8 months. Hitachi did supply a new one, but still-8 months!

Jun 01, 09 - 01:05 pm Comment from: rondonski

It's not just Nvidia chips that are causing the anomalies. The first gen MacBook Pro and MacBooks already had these problems. I've lived with it since May 2007. Mine has the ATI Radeon X1600. My wife is using the MacBook.
I think it's Apple using some cheapo component somewhere in MBP. Just like the cheap Seagate drive in the first gen MacBooks and MacBook Pro's. I've changed mine to Hitachi drives.
Poor Nvidia is just a scapegoat for Apple's missteps.

Jun 01, 09 - 01:06 pm Comment from: Cubert

With NVIDIA and CUDA, is Apple putting all their eggs in one basket again?

Do ATI's graphics cards support CUDA?

Jun 01, 09 - 01:29 pm Comment from: Jubei

This is going to cost NVIDIA some bucks. After the repair and replacement of the board, Apple bills NVIDIA for the cost. Ouch.

How come only English version of this KB says 3 years?
Any other says 2 years.

Jun 01, 09 - 01:55 pm Comment from: mossman

@MaximumOverdrive:

I understand your point in linking to the article, but just as NVIDIA's "bad batch" was their whole 8400M and 8600M line and not just a few hundred here or there, by "bad batch" I also referred to the entire iMac G5 line.

I'm sure there's plenty of people whose iMac G5s still work fine, but then, there are plenty of MBPs with these video cards which are still working fine too. Due to manufacturing defects (acknowledged or not), though, they are more likely to fail than they should be.