Dead MacBook Pro Displays: Final Update
I’m back up and running. This post is being written on my repaired MacBook Pro! Wednesday night (9/23) the status of my laptop changed from “On hold” to “Repaired”. And to my surprise this morning I saw that it was out on a FedEx truck for delivery to my house. Apple had shipped it overnight from their repair facility in Texas! Upon opening the laptop, it showed...
Read MoreDead MacBook Pro Displays: Update 2
It appears a lot of people have been affected by the NVIDIA chip bug. A poster on the Apple Discussion forums posted that he suspects more people are being affected by this now because of Snow Leopard, which uses the GPU more heavily. This seems plausible to me. Anyway, still no love for my MacBook Pro. It’s been sitting at the Apple Repair Center since 9/15 with the status “On...
Read MoreDead MacBook Pro Displays: An Update
For those of you in the same boat, here is an update regarding the dead displays on my MacBook Pro. I arrived at my noontime Genius appointment a few minutes early and they were able to take me right away. The Genius was aware of the NVIDIA issue and after a quick test to confirm the displays were dead, took it out back to do a “specific test for the NVIDIA issue”. He came back a...
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Damn it! My MacBook Pro has succumbed to the dreaded NVIDIA graphics processor defect. The NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT apparently can stop working various MacBook Pros from 2007 and 2008. It’s bad enough that Apple extended the repair period to be up to 3 years from date of purchase, which is fortunate since this laptop is about 18 months old and out-of-warranty. In retrospect, the video...
Read MoreMac Beta Browser Bake-Off!
Currently there are a whole slew of Mac OS X browsers in beta right now: Safari 4, Firefox 3.1/3.5, Camino 2.0 and OmniWeb 5.9sp. After playing around with them a bit, here’s a brief overview: Safari 4 SunSpider Score: 790ms When this beta was released by Apple a couple weeks ago it caught everyone by surprise. I’ve never been a big Safari user, so I figured it would be pretty safe...
Read MoreUpgrading a MacBook Pro to 6GB RAM
I don’t remember where I first heard about it, but I think I was reading up on the newly release MacBook Pros when someone commented that the older ones could actually hold up to 6GB of RAM. That was news to me. I knew that Apple specified a maximum of 4GB, so I was intrigued. More RAM is better after all. A quick Google search turned up a couple interesting forum topics that did indeed...
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