Comments on: Apple posts graphics update for new MacBook Pro

Some owners had reported vertical stripes mucking up the displays of their newly released 17-inch MacBook Pros, and Apple has now acknowledged the problem with a fix.

[Vegaman_Dan]

nVidia's solution in the past to this problem on other machines affected in this manner was to make the CPU or GPU fans run at a much faster and louder level to keep up with the cooling requirements. On a desktop, that wasn't a problem, but on a laptop, it resulted in a much noisier system with poor battery life.

It will be interesting to see how this affects the Macbook in real life experience.

[RompStar_420]

I own one of these laptops, got it about a week ago, has anyone applied this firmware patch yet ? I am not having any issues.

[eric.l]

yeah I'm curious about this as well. Just bought a 17" MBP a couple of days ago. Have nothing but good things to say about the display so far.

[sanenazok]

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:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/annieee/3305611222/

[odowd80]

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:
http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/03/05/17.inch.mbp.video.errors/