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