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Nvidia's Own Shareholders Sue for Coverup
tomshardware.com - 10/10/2008
Nvidia's Own Shareholders Sue for Coverup
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Nvidia has been slapped with a lawsuit alleging the company violated U.S. Securities laws and accusing it of keeping those major chip flaws the company announced over the summer a secret, despite knowing about them and their "root causes" since almost this time last year. It was a pretty ...
support.apple.com - 10/10/2008
MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues
— support.apple.com — Symptoms In July 2008, NVIDIA publicly acknowledged a higher than normal failure rate for some of their graphics processors due to a packaging defect. At that same time, NVIDIA assured Apple that Mac computers with these graphics processors were not ... (more) MacBook Pro: Distorted video or no video issues

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primatelabs.ca - 10/17/2008
MacBook and MacBook Pro Performance
— primatelabs.ca — Benchmarks: Primate Labs takes a look at the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros to determine if the faster RAM and the new NVIDIA chipset helps (or hinders) processor performance. (more) MacBook and MacBook Pro Performance

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appleinsider.com - 10/12/2008
Apple dumping Intel chipsets for NVIDIA's in new MacBooks
— appleinsider.com — Apple will announce as part of its special media event Tuesday a new family of MacBooks that will abandoned Intel's integrated graphics chipsets for those part of NVIDIA's new mobile platform, AppleInsider can confirm. (more) Apple dumping Intel chipsets for NVIDIA's in new MacBooks

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The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW):  Newer MBPs may contain faulty NVIDIA chips

jkOnTheRun:  NVidia chips faulty- affect Macs too

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Newer MBPs may contain faulty NVIDIA chips
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... The problem is likely to cost NVIDIA up to $200 million to fix; this does not include the likely fallout from shareholder lawsuits alleging that the video-card manufacturer deliberately withheld information on the scope of the chip flaws. ...

NVidia chips faulty- affect Macs too
jkOnTheRun — ... The news about NVidia just keeps getting worse and can be filed in the "stick a fork in them" category.  NVidia had to admit that some of their video chips were faulty and the impact on the company was so great that shareholders filed suit against management.  The faulty chips spawned recalls by HP and Dell for notebooks containing the defective chips and today Apple has admitted that some MacBook Pros have the faulty chips.  Apple has notified owners that MacBook Pros with GeForce 8600M GT chips can exhibit video problems, garbled screens or dead ...

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