Mac owners beware, all Nvidia 84 and 86s graphics cards are bad… or are they?
Monday, July 21st, 2008
We’re upgrading our laptops here at DWC. In fact, we were about to sign the papers when we heard about this story in The Inquirer. (Thanks @inneralien) In a nutshell, the article claims that all Nvidia 8400 and 8600 series chips are bad, mobile and desktop. In our case, that affects the new MacBook Pros we have been lustily coveting. Laptops, since they tend to cycle more frequently, are apparently more susceptible to the heat related issue.
In a related article, Ars Technica downplays The Inquirer’s take on Nvidia’s publicly admitted issue, stating that only certain configurations will have potential issues, and of those, only notebooks are affected. From At:
Two weeks ago, NVIDIA filed a report (PDF) with the SEC stating that it would take a $150 million to $200 million one-time charge to cover “anticipated customer warranty, repair, return, replacement and other consequential costs and expenses arising from a weak die/packaging (more…)
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