theinquirer.net - 12/9/2008
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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. HP released a BIOS update that ran the ...
theinquirer.net - 12/9/2008
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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 ...
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INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have Nvidia bad ...
theinquirer.net - 12/10/2008
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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 ...
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INQUIRER confirms Apple Macbook Pros have ...
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... Citing questions stemming from problems affecting Dell, HP and Apple computers earlier in the year with failing chips due to bad materials and thermal stress, as well as a $200 million charge Nvidia took over the problem in July, the Inquirer commissioned researchers to take apart a new MacBook Pro and investigate Nvidia’s assurances that none of the bad chipsets made it into Apple’s new computers that began selling in the fall. ...
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