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NVIDIA Faulty Graphics Chips in Your MacBook Pro?
maclife.com - 12/11/2008
NVIDIA Faulty Graphics Chips in Your MacBook Pro?
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INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material
theinquirer.net - 12/9/2008
INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material
— theinquirer.net — By Charlie Demerjian : Tuesday, 09 December 2008, 11:20 AM WHEN THE NEW Macbooks came out a few weeks ago, Nvidia stated that the chips they provided to Apple did not contain the proverbial 'bad bumps'. Unfortunately for them, an investigation lead ... (more) INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad ...

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INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material
theinquirer.net - 12/10/2008
INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad bump material
— theinquirer.net — WHEN THE NEW Macbooks came out a few weeks ago, Nvidia stated that the chips they provided to Apple did not contain the proverbial 'bad bumps'. Unfortunately for them, an investigation led by The Inquirer proves that not to be the case. Background If ... (more) INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have ...

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Nvidia "opens can of whoop-ass" on itself
— theinquirer.net — I bet this is related to this HP notebook problem http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/genericDocument?docname=c01087277&dlc=en&lc=en&cc=us The biggest problem was with NVIDIA northbridge chips in HP's AMD notebooks but Intel notebooks had problems too. ... (more) Nvidia "opens can of whoop-ass" on itself

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News Roundup for December the 11th
Apple Eclectic — ... It’s turning out to be a bit of a roller coaster ride owning one of the new aluminium MacBooks. The latest ‘bump‘ in the road — keep reading and I’ll explain why that was funny — comes in the form of reports that the Nvidia GPUs in the new 15″ MacBook Pro suffers from the same manufacturing fault — which, without getting overly technically, appears to be ‘bumpy chips’ — which caused problems for laptop manufacturers, including Apple, earlier this year. This could be the cause of the occasional ‘black screen of death’ ...

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