Owners of early and late-2011 MacBook Pros with discrete graphics cards are reportedly facing GPU failures and system crashes. Numerous tips sent to MacRumors, a detailed thread on the Apple Support Communities, a Facebook group, and various reports on our forums highlight this issue. These MacBooks, launched on February 28, 2011, are primarily showing screen glitches during graphics-intensive tasks or gaming. Users have reported visible striations, image distortion, or compl
This is mostly for my own personal documentation, but hope it will helps others. I know I've been asked what to do by several friends or friends-of-friends whom this exact issue has happened to. (Both 'Early' and 'Late') 2011 Macbook Pro computers have been experiencing massive failures with their discrete AMD graphics card (GPU). Early posts describing this issue date back to February 1 2013 (and possibly earlier), where the screen displays horizontal/vertical distortions,
CUPERTINO, California—July 29, 2014—Apple® has announced updates to the MacBook Pro® with Retina® display, featuring faster processors, double the memory in both entry-level models, and a reduced starting price for the high-end 15-inch notebook. The MacBook Pro with Retina display boasts a remarkable high-resolution screen, a sleek design just 0.71 inches thick, the latest processors, powerful graphics, and up to nine hours of battery life, offering incredible performance in
