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Monday, January 17, 2011

Nvidia Comes Clean About GPU Problem, Old News for Apple

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple Laptops" @ 12:00 PM

http://www.9to5mac.com/47483/nvidia...e+Intelligence)

"Nvidia is coming clean with Dell, HP and Apple owners who purchased some of the Laptops with discrete GPU "bumps" that sometimes caused failure. Apple went to extraordinary lengths (far beyond Dell or HP), covering Macbook Pros affected with these issues for up to three years and issuing refunds to those who paid for repairs."

I had my MacBook Pro repaired by Apple free of charge when the display died, caused by this very problem, and that was well over a year ago. If you have one of the affected machines and haven't had it in for repairs, you can find out more about it by reading this Apple support document. You can also go here to read the PDF of the settlement document from Nvidia.


Monday, April 19, 2010

Ever Wonder How Apple Gets So Much Battery Life From MacBook Pros?

Posted by Jeff Campbell in "Apple Laptops" @ 09:00 AM

http://www.cultofmac.com/new-macboo...w+(Cult+of+Mac)

"One of the major improvements of the latest MacBook Pros is in battery life: the 13-inch MacBook Pro is now boasting an impressive ten hour battery life, while even the more power hungry 15 and 17 inchers are promising eight to nine hours of mobile performance."

In order to get this battery life they are using something called "dynamic graphics switching" that switches between the NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M and the Intel HD GPUs. Apparently they have had this capability since last year but it had to be a user selected preference. Now it is all automatic. The advantage to this type of switching is that the GPUs are never run at the same time, thus saving battery life. Ars Technica also has an interesting article related to the inner workings of the 13-inch MacBook Pro and why it doesn't have one of the Arrandale processors.


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