Q: MacBook Pro (2010) Freeze

Just reading all these post has gotten me sick. I placed a new 13" Mac Book Pro i5 in my apple shopping cart and is now contemplating my next move very cautiously. I need it for playing live with Mainstage 2.
Should I buy or not? Where I am at it would take a while to return if anything goes wrong.

Eclipsedk wrote:
Well, with about 24 hours of no errors, i got one again!

I think you got a faulty logic board again, return it!

Unbelievable! I think i will return it monday..

_*This is ******* ridiculous_!* I have had my initial machine 'repaired' twice, and then replaced! And the replacement machine is still having the same problems as the last!

I went to the Apple Store to see a Genius who was more concerned about the fact that his machine doesn't have the same problems as mine. And after a one hour drive to the store, his only advice was to reinstall OS X Snow Leopard, so I called Customer Relations and now I have to venture out to another Apple Reseller for 'extended testing'.

I have repaired disk permissions, repaired disk, zeroed-out disk and reinstalled Mac OS X Snow Leopard, reset PRAM, ran software updates for both Apple and Adobe Software and have also ran AHT long loop with all in vain and have even done screen recording to show the problem.

I do not understand why a C2D iMac is faster than my $3, 500.00 MacBook Pro of which I could have of bough 3 for the same price. I only have Apple + Adobe software installed.

I personally think that there is a problem that Apple is failing to acknowledge, two consecutive machines do not fail under normal circumstances, a fact that Apple keeps reinforcing but is none the less consistently defied.

They asked me what I wanted to gain from my problem implying I wanted a machine for free, whilst I only want a machine that works!

_This is ***** ridiculous_! I have had my initial machine 'repaired' twice, and then replaced! And the replacement machine is still having the same problems as the last!

I went to the Apple Store to see a Genius who was more concerned about the fact that his machine doesn't have the same problems as mine. And after a one hour drive to the store, his only advice was to reinstall OS X Snow Leopard, so I called Customer Relations and now I have to venture out to another Apple Reseller for 'extended testing'.

I have repaired disk permissions, repaired disk, zeroed-out disk and reinstalled Mac OS X Snow Leopard, reset PRAM, ran software updates for both Apple and Adobe Software and have also ran AHT long loop with all in vain and have even done screen recording to show the problem.

I do not understand why a C2D iMac is faster than my $3, 500.00 MacBook Pro of which I could have of bough 3 for the same price. I only have Apple + Adobe software installed.

I personally think that there is a problem that Apple is failing to acknowledge, two consecutive machines do not fail under normal circumstances, a fact that Apple keeps reinforcing but is none the less consistently defied.

They asked me what I wanted to gain from my problem implying I wanted a machine for free, whilst I only want a machine that works!

im tired to say all to you..... Apple MBP are bad quality from 2010...
I had to sell it after 30 calls to apple,,and finaly i lost money with 3 months of use.
They never replace me anything,no logic board,no ram....so you had more luck than me at least...
I have been waiting sice july 2010 to the mew MBPs with different Video Card,and i still dont see any new ones with freezing problems in this forum..
Hope new ones works fine ....

Apple is not quality,Apple is a nice logo but actually is worst than other brands talking about turst in the machine for professional use....

Im Apple user since 1990..but the reality is the reality.....

A Powerbook g4 titanium in the 2000 year, could cost around 3000 euros,now they are for 1000.. so,what did you expect from less than a half price ? BAD QUALITY

Cheers!

It is my understanding that this only computers with an AMD GPU, and therefore would not effect you're 13" MacBook Pro.

Message was edited by: Grifachu

Nvidia cards are problematics,not AMD.
ANd the new ones comes with INtel card.

@Kopy: NVIDIA cards are not problematic, but it's OSX itself problematic.
I had Windows 7 x64 installed on my "now-sold" MBP for a week, and i didn't experienced any problems. So it's Apple to blame for not writing proper working video drivers for their OS.

And why then same laptop in my friends not had problems?
Im not with you mate....

Here I am. Freezed MBP later 2010:
CPU i5 @2.4GHz
NVIDIA GT330

Nvidia

GUYS GOT IT I can reproduce the freeze every time I want:

1. Start a time machine backup
2. During Time Machine if I close the LID, go to apple>Sleep or CMDALTEJECT the system absolutely freeze. Every time. No logs in system logs.

I think this occurs after 10.6.7 upgrade. I write this also in my thread where I've asked to rollback to 10.6.6.

Kopy wrote:
Nvidia cards are problematics,not AMD.
ANd the new ones comes with INtel card.

Both mid-2010 models and the new 2011 models come with an onboard Intel graphics chip. The difference is in the discrete GPU chips: mid-2010 got the NVIDIA and the 2011 got the AMD. I've heard a few reports of the new ones (with AMD chips) freezing as well.

@Kopy: dunno. guess he was lucky enough to have a working machine.....who knows.
For me, as i said, the NVIDIA card has working great under Windows 7 for a long week (no crashes, freezes or whatsoever). Dunno what else to say, except that this is a very inconvenient problem for those that need to get their work done.