2011 MacBook Pro and Discrete Graphics Card

They could issue a credit note towards a new machine. I'd rather pay £435 towards a new laptop, than £435 towards a sub standard repair that is only guaranteed for 90 days. At least a new machine has a 1 year warranty. Apple could also be nice and include 3 year Apple Care for our pain. There is still lots Apple can do, and so far they have done nothing, zero, zilch.

obwianMacobi wrote:

They could issue a credit note towards a new machine. I'd rather pay £435 towards a new laptop, than £435 towards a sub standard repair that is only guaranteed for 90 days.

To be clear, you want Apple to give you $1000 or more, is that correct?

It's just a suggestion, but anything is better than nothing at this point in time.

I don't think that's unreasonable to be honest. How long should a laptop last? I generally upgrade mine every 3 years or so, but I'd expect them to last twice that. If a new MBP costs $2000 and it only lasts me half the time it should because of a design flaw, then a pro rata refund on the value is reasonable. Or, you could put it this way - if I get a logic board replacement and it fails twice, as some people on this thread have had happen, then Apple have "given" me $1500.

I imagine that Apple are only carrying a certain amount of stock of 3 year old logic boards. At some point they're going to run out, because they can't keep recycling them. At that point, what are they going to do?

Csound1 wrote:

obwianMacobi wrote:

They could issue a credit note towards a new machine. I'd rather pay £435 towards a new laptop, than £435 towards a sub standard repair that is only guaranteed for 90 days.

To be clear, you want Apple to give you $1000 or more, is that correct?

talk about noise...

jokigenki wrote:

I don't think that's unreasonable to be honest.

Why tell me, I ever said that it was, did you actually read my post?

Csound1 wrote:

jokigenki wrote:

I don't think that's unreasonable to be honest.

Why tell me, I ever said that it was, did you actually read my post?

talk about more noise...

akamyself wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

obwianMacobi wrote:

They could issue a credit note towards a new machine. I'd rather pay £435 towards a new laptop, than £435 towards a sub standard repair that is only guaranteed for 90 days.

To be clear, you want Apple to give you $1000 or more, is that correct?

talk about noise...

You may think that it is not important to find out what people want, and I am not at all surprised that you think that way about what other people expect.

But that is how you are.

Csound1 wrote:

akamyself wrote:

Csound1 wrote:

obwianMacobi wrote:

They could issue a credit note towards a new machine. I'd rather pay £435 towards a new laptop, than £435 towards a sub standard repair that is only guaranteed for 90 days.

To be clear, you want Apple to give you $1000 or more, is that correct?

talk about noise...

You may think that it is not important to find out what people want, and I am not at all surprised that you think that way about what other people expect.

But that is how you are.

stop talking nonsense, your conclusion is as silly as your questions.

the noise is not people's want or need, it's your questions and pretty much all your answers when you don't find a way to avoid answering.

people affected just want Apple to provide a solid fix, especially when asking money for it. bottom line.

akamyself wrote:

people affected just want Apple to provide a solid fix, especially when asking money for it. bottom line.

Others can speak for themselves, stop being so selfish as to assume the mantle of their spokesman so you can spread your opinion while pretending that it is 'theirs'

Csound1 wrote:

akamyself wrote:

people affected just want Apple to provide a solid fix, especially when asking money for it. bottom line.

Others can speak for themselves, stop being so selfish as to assume the mantle of their spokesman so you can spread your opinion while pretending that it is 'theirs'

the absolutely can, they did, do and will.

stop jumping to dumb conclusions again and stop being noisy, again.

how's that investigation going?

found anyone not wanting a fix from Apple when paying for one?

Let's face it here folks,

After more than 17.800 signatures on the mbp2011 change pttn, one of the most lengthiest threads in their forums, numerous people reporting this issue either through feedback here or an Apple Store or an Authorized partner or even e-mail, for (taking the thread here as an example) almost 2 years now.

Reports from allover the world, News articles about this issue posted on AI, MR, CoM and a few other noteworthy sites. We still have absolute silence from Apple. Please, do not fool yourselves into thinking that they will address this issue. They won't.

Simply because there's no way to do so without losing a ton of money. either they re-make the Motherboards (which is **** near impossible) or they give all of these people some sort of hefty discount on a new machine. both of which will never happen, unless this comes out to the wider public. give this 2 minutes on all major news for a day and you'll see how fast Apple will address this.

btw dear people,

been a while since I last read someone mentioning it but if willing to have a safety OS on your 2011 mbp, keep in mind that installing a linux system on a partition is pretty easy to do, you can disable the use of the discrete on boot and get a system ready for whatever without struggling on start up.

installed Ubuntu but now running Arch Linux and it's all good.

just saying...

Csound1 wrote:

akamyself wrote:

people affected just want Apple to provide a solid fix, especially when asking money for it. bottom line.

Others can speak for themselves, stop being so selfish as to assume the mantle of their spokesman so you can spread your opinion while pretending that it is 'theirs'

So, what is exactly your contribution to this thread? So far, you have blamed others for minding their own business, spreading noise, you have been reporting other posts to the moderators, suggesting that 600 pages of well-documented instances of radeongate are really due to the presence Adobe CC, and now you are blaming akamyself for being a self-proclaimed spokesman?

Each and every report of a failing 2011 MacBook Pro and Discrete Graphics Card is on topic here, and a welcome addition in this thread, so is each contribution that suggests how this issue should be approached by Apple. I really believe we could do without another Apple fanboi who is soooooo happy with Apple because someone else problems are not his. This is not a good place for you to hangout...

vyrngrutt wrote:

Simply because there's no way to do so without losing a ton of money.

How will Apple lose money? this would be a write off and there are enough profits at Apple to ensure that they will be able to take it