On 2 September 2013 11:53, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > i don't know of a common such glitch with that model, but my first Intel > Mac, a 2.17GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro, died a slow death from GPU troubles; > apparently there are bad solder joints that are stressed by thermal > expansion; i farmed the machine out to server duty, and avoided use of > OpenGL, and that extended its life for a couple of years but eventually the > condition was fatal
Lots of laptops of various brands had similar heat related GPU problems in this tech era, I think that they had unrealistic expectations of the performance of the ball grid arrays used to connect the chips to the beards. -- Rob Studdert (Digital Image Studio) Tel: +61-418-166-870 UTC +10 Hours Gmail, eBay, Skype, Twitter, Facebook, Picasa: distudio -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
