
Customers who have experienced the issue can take their devices into Apple Stores (and authorised retailers) or call up and order a postage-paid box to send it in. The program began Friday in the US and Canada and will begin February 27 elsewhere in the world.
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Following this method will allow you to completely use your Mac again I typed this response off of my 2011 15 inch MacBook Pro that recently had its GPU fail. Moving just the AMD Kexts will allow you to boot up the Mac, but it will be very sluggish and slow. may exhibit distorted video, no video, or unexpected system restarts." Apple MacBook Pro 13 Early 2011 MC700 (Core i5 2300 Mhz/13.3/1280x800/4096Mb/320Gb/DVD-RW/Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/MacOS X) Apple MacBook Pro 13 Early 2011 MC700. You will have to boot into archlinux to bypass SIP and disable the discrete graphics card.

There is no indication of how many MacBooks Pros have been affected by the issue over the past four years Apple says only that a "small percentage. The company announced Thursday that it would repair affected products free of charge. It clearly was not an isolated problem, as a petition calling on Apple to issue replacements for affected models has been signed almost 40,000 times.Īpple successfully had the lawsuit dismissed in January, with the judge ruling that the "plaintiffs have failed to allege that Apple's logic boards were unfit for their ordinary purposes or lacked a minimal level of quality."īut Apple seems to have had a change of heart. The lawsuit was brought against Apple in late 2014 by customers who said the MacBook Pros they purchased in 2011 had severely defective graphics cards and that Apple should be forced to pay for the repair.
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A photo of the graphical issue taken from the petition calling on Apple to launch a replacement program.Īfter successfully battling a class-action lawsuit last year, Apple is finally acknowledging a long-running issue with MacBook Pros' graphics hardware and has begun offering free repairs, MacRumors reports. The MacBook Pro 'Core i7' 2.0 15-Inch (Early 2011/Thunderbolt) features a 32 nm 'Sandy Bridge' 2.0 GHz Intel 'Core i7' processor (2635QM), with four independent processor 'cores' on a single silicon chip, a 6 MB shared level 3 cache, 4 GB of 1333 MHz DDR3 SDRAM (PC3-10600) installed in pairs (two 2 GB modules), a 500 GB Serial ATA (5400 RPM.
