Apple has quietly updating MacBook Pro units to address issues such as AirPort not automatically rejoining a preferred network, Airport range randomly dropping, LCD backlight flickers at lowest brightness setting, and heat issues.
“According to Apple, it has begun replacing the mainboard inside its MacBook Pros with a new revision. It calls the udpated product “revision D”, which is identifiable by product serial number: Serial numbers starting with W8611: revision D, Serial numbers starting with W8610: revision C,” Tuan Nguyen reports for DailyTech. “Apple said that revision D MacBook Pros have many issues addressed and improvements made, including fixes to the above mentioned issues. We were also able to get a hold of a MacBook Pro that just arrived during the week with a serial number starting with W8612, which did not exhibit any of the above issues.”
Nguyen reports, “Many users are also reporting that their MacBook Pros become extremely hot to handle, especially in the area above the F keys and underneath the notebook itself. In fact, my MacBook Pro gets so hot that placing it in your hands is almost unbearable, and leaving it on a bare lap is next to impossible. According to Apple, the MacBook Pro should never become hot to the point of being uncomfortable. The representative I spoke to said ‘that should not happen. If it is, bring back your MacBook Pro and we’ll give you an updated version.'”
Full article here.
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They give better performance per watt, but much more performance.
What does “performance per watt” mean, exactly? How do they quantify “performance” in this mythical ratio? Floating point performance? Integer performance? OpenGL performance? What the fuck does “performance per watt” even measure?
Don’t you tools realize “performance per watt” is a marketing slogan, not a scientific measurement of anything?
What the big deal with making minor improvements to a product, especially when issues have appeared in the field?
Are you seriously telling that when Dell find a part is not working to spec that they release a new version?
All products evolve – especially in fast paced industries like the computer industry.
These are obviously not “refinements”. They are bug fixes.
If you want proof that there were tons of defective MacBook Pros, just check out Apple’s Refurb section of their online store. I’ve seen 1.83, 2.0 and even 2.16Ghz MacBook Pros on sale as refurbs lately.
That’s the upside of these bugs – you can get a 2.16Ghz MacBook Pro for $2399 instead of $2799 if you keep an eye on the refurb section!
@ Corporate Headquarters>
You are a no-nothing bozo.
The concept of Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) whilst a system is in production has been a part of computer development since the Year Dot, especially during the minicomputer era when the pace of change increased dramatically.
Also, when project managing the Windows 95-2K migration of a household name oil company, we discovered some Dell models that – whilst superficially similar – had three different variations of on-board NIC and two variations on on-board graphics. And the only reason for those changes were cost as opposed to product reliability.
However, as I suspect you’re just MacDude posting under another name, you’d have no knowledge of such things and will simply ignore yet another fact in your desperate campaign to discredit the Mac platform.
MacDailyNews merely passes along information it cannot verify. This article could be and probably is simply heresay.