“Reports of failing MacBook Pros have been flooding in since 2013, with many owners of 2011 models with AMD graphics suffering from system crashes and hardware problems that have been described as ‘critical,'” Ashleigh Allsopp reports for Macworld UK. “While playing games, watching HD video or performing another graphics-intensive task, users have witnessed their displays distorting, or sometimes going completely blank. Rebooting the machine temporarily resolves the issue, but it almost always returns.”
“Since first publishing this story, we’ve had more than 200 readers get in touch to let us know that they’re experiencing the same issue. The huge thread on Apple’s Support Communities has now been viewed more than one million times,” Allsopp reports. “As of August 2014, a petition started last year that urges Apple to recall the affected MacBook Pro laptops to fix the problem has passed the 10,000-signature mark, yet Apple still hasn’t addressed the issue.”
Allsopp reports, “A DC-based law firm have reportedly begun investigating the issue as it considers filing a class action lawsuit against Apple.”
Much more in the full article here.