Apple posts graphics update for new MacBook Pro
Owners of Apple's most recently released 17-inch MacBook Pro are encouraged to install a new graphics update.
(Credit: Apple)Apple has issued a fix for the graphics problems suffered by some owners of the company's new 17-inch MacBook Pro.
The firmware update was released Wednesday for owners of the MacBook Pro announced at Macworld and shipped in February. Some owners had reported problems with vertical lines polluting the display, and Apple says the new firmware should fix the problem.
Please let us know if you had any problems installing the update, or if the firmware update doesn't fix the problem. Based on the release notes for the firmware, it 's not clear whether this fix is related to the instability issues noted by some 17-inch MacBook Pro users when running Nvidia's discrete graphics cards.
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It will be interesting to see how this affects the Macbook in real life experience.
- by sanenazok March 26, 2009 7:21 AM PDT
- I don't understand why a story about screen artifacts has the publicity shot of the Mac computer instead of a demonstration of what these screen lines look like. It's quite attractive really:
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- by odowd80 March 26, 2009 9:19 AM PDT
- The link you supplied is irrelevant since it is not a 17-inch unibody macbook pro. Here is a link that shows the problem that this update is supposed to fix:
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