MBP Freezing Problem?

[specWB]

Hello, I just ordered a 15in Core i7 Macbook Pro. Im pretty excited about it. However, just yesterday i decided to go look over the forums at apple, and it seems like a lot of people are having a problem where their MBPs are freezing, to the point of requiring a hard reboot. Im am just trying to figure out if its actually a widespread problem, or if its just that a lot of the people who have the problem are posting there. The problem seems to be GPU related, and only affects the i7 models with 512mb GPUs. Nobody seems to have mentioned it here yet, and i would have expected it would come up if it was that common (i lurk a lot). Thanks for your insight.

 

[Kmax82]

Well, I personally haven't heard anything, but you never know.

Worst case scenario, you get one, it crashes, you call Apple and get it replaced, or refunded.

In general, it's always good to wait a cycle with any computer hardware before you leap into it... but if you need a machine now, and want a Mac, I wouldn't hesitate to get one.

 

[TheStu]

This is a much smaller community of users than MacRumors, and especially Apple's own forums.

I would go with Kmax's advice.

 

[PCTC2]

I have a 17" Core i5 MacBook Pro w/ the GT330 w/ 512MB VRAM, and I have not had any problems with it in terms of stability. The only thing I've noticed is missing the official support of disabling the discrete GPU for battery life. Some programs seem to keep it on the discrete, despite having no windows open, just the application in the background.

 

[TheStu]

I have a 17" Core i5 MacBook Pro w/ the GT330 w/ 512MB VRAM, and I have not had any problems with it in terms of stability. The only thing I've noticed is missing the official support of disabling the discrete GPU for battery life. Some programs seem to keep it on the discrete, despite having no windows open, just the application in the background.

I think that on the front page of AT there was a program that allowed you to change the GPU.

 

[Wreckem]

Its not an i7 or graphics issue. Its on both the i5 and i7, but the problem is not on every i5/i7 macbook pro, and appears to be a bad batch of hard drives.

If you mosey on over the the Apple Discussion boards people have been either getting new HDDs or new systems cross shipped with Apple examining the old ones.

In any event Apple is aware of it and hopefully the issue isn't on newer orders. Apple's response seems to be pretty good on this.

 

[specWB]

Thanks for the responses, i should probably make a correction though. I meant a freezing problem, not a crashing problem. Apparently everything will freeze, except the pointer will still move at first, but eventually even that stops and you have to do a hard reboot. Is that the same HDD problem you were referring to, Wreckem?

 

[freegeeks]

i have the i7 / ssd combo and no problems at all

 

[Wreckem]

Thanks for the responses, i should probably make a correction though. I meant a freezing problem, not a crashing problem. Apparently everything will freeze, except the pointer will still move at first, but eventually even that stops and you have to do a hard reboot. Is that the same HDD problem you were referring to, Wreckem?

Yes, and it doesnt always need a hard reboot.

See link below

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2420192&start=0&tstart=0

People who've either gotten HDDs or new systems have not experianced the freezes.

 

[specWB]

glad to hear that, thanks.