engadget.com - 3/9/2009
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Oh, brother. We can already tell this one's going to be a fun, enjoyable journey to follow. Shortly after Apple's 17-inch unibody MacBook Pro began making its way out to early adopters, small legions of owners have reported all sorts of bizarre graphical glitches. While we first assumed that ...
slashgear.com - 3/8/2009
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Reports of 17-inch Apple MacBook Pro visual artifacts
and display glitches continue, with the latest suspicion being...
that the notebook’s heat management system, not the NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GPU, could be at fault. After the cut, NVIDIA’s ...
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MacBook Pro screen glitches heat, not NVIDIA issue?
i.gizmodo.com - 3/6/2009
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This is all too familiar . The Apple
support forums are lit up by complaints that the...
new 17-inch MacBook Pros are plagued by faulty Nvidia GeForce 9600 graphics cards . Complaints run something like this: When the more powerful Geforce 9600M is ...
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Fan Overheating in 17-inch Apple Macbook Pro: GeForce 9600M Problem
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... controls are to blame.
Engadget say that this is all speculation at the moment, but have said that owners have noticed that their fans on their 17-inch Apple MacBook Pro are kicking into high gear when they should not.
Engadget report that both Apple and NVIDIA are spending a lot of time trying to figure out what the exact cause is. The ironic thing is, just last year the MacBook Air suffered with overheating troubles, maybe it is a fan issue.
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White iPhone 3GS discoloration blamed on overheating
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... , Macbook Pro's, etc. Many more can be found via Google search including our report above and others related to the older model iPhone 3G. Wired appears to believe that this might be a software related issue and we hope so as well, but our sources that tested the betas of iPhone OS 3.0 did not report any heat related issues on either iPods or iPhones as they suggested. Let's hope that Apple finds a solution for this problem in the next firmware update. ...
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