Q: 2011 MacBook Pro and Discrete Graphics Card

I have the i7 Radeon HD 6750M 15' MBP early 2011. Also started to experience problems with my GPU.

I really hope Apple sort this for free otherwise they are going to lose a lot of customers. It's not great when you spend £2,000 on a laptop that breaks down after a few years!

The admins deleted my previous post because I mentioned a petition. Here is my post from that site.

I purchased my MBP in March of 2011 as a replacement for a 2004 Dell Desktop. I saved my hard earned money for years before deciding to pull the trigger on a premium Apple product. I fell in love with the quality of the MBP. It was a work of art and very powerful. I was so pleased with my MBP that I donated all my old Dell desktop. My pride in ownership of my beautiful MBP has faded, the powerful work of art didn't last 2 years. Now I my beloved MBP is a $2800 paper weight. I had to scrounge around for a working pc just to sign this petition. All I'm asking for is for Apple to stand up; admit there was a design or manufacturing flaw in the 2011 MBP line. Make our MBP's good as new with the improved parts, and not a $500 repair with the same inferior parts. Please don't make me regret not buying a Acer laptop with Windows 7 from Walmart instead of my MBP. Make me a believer in Apple again.

P.S. Tim Cook and Apple, this petition was signed on a 2000 IBM T23 Thinkpad running Windows XP. Until I have a functioning MBP the IBM Thinkpad with Windows XP just became my "new" computer. I guess it's not all bad though. They do say that all things old become new again. I just didn't think that applied to technology.

I had the same problem. 2 days ago my macbook pro 2011 15" went off.

I can't even enter OSx.

It will be 700usd.

You are loosing something too.

My Late 2011 MacBook Pro 17 just started having these symptoms this Monday.  I finally was able to boot into the desktop and install gfxCardStatus to switch to integrated only.  The setting does not survive a reboot, now I will have to leave the BrokeBook on fulltime.

ciu5781 wrote:

 

Is this caused by heat? If so, it's users fault. Not apple's.

Really ciu5781?

So, it's the user's and not a desing or production process fault that the solder balls between gpu and motherboard loose contact?

How did you come to that conclusion?

Because when the user uses it, it gets to warm?

So, one should not use it to avoid it getting warm and breaks?

Explain your conclusion please?

Same problem. Nothing really new. Called apple support and they told me it's not a widespread problem. Died 2 months after my warranty expired too. Spent the hundreds of dollars for a new logic board on a nice new thinkpad instead.

Has anyone noticed this or has the same problem on a 13-inch Mid 2012 Macbook Pro 2.5 Ghz Intel Core i5 4GB Intel HD Graphics 4000 1024 MB ?

Same here. I'm from Germany an bought my MBP 15" early 2011 with the AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB for 2700€. After 3 Years it's nearly useless. I always get vertical lines and the system freezes.

Someone suspects about Mavericks and Its graphics improvements?

My MBP early 2008 works perfectly for 6 years. Just a couple of months after update to Mavericks, the graphics card died.

Perhaps Mavericks make graphics card run at higher temperature due graphics improvements, and this could be the reason that a lot of machines crash at the same time.

I think Mavericks could be the most expensive OS ever...

My early 2011 Macbook Pro's GPU died about 2 weeks ago.  I had lost all hope.  Then I found this thread.... Maybe Apple will notice the mass failure and help us out!  Keeping my fingers crossed!!!

itascender wrote:

 

The admins deleted my previous post because I mentioned a petition. Here is my post from that site.

pull the trigger on a premium Apple product.

Apple never said it's premium product. It's just assembled with same made-in-China **** as ones used in other computers. It's your fault if you bought it because you thought it was sold as primely engineered machine. Computer brokes someday. It already worked 3 years. Not bad.

I have an MBP 15, Mid 2012and I have encountered the same issue like abelliveau's image.  Also, when I use the gesture (pinch with thumb and three fingers gesture) for the Laundpad.

http://imageshack.us/a/img145/9898/screenshot20130201at758.png

About the blue screen, It happens few timesl when I switched users.

And for my firmware this is what I have:

Boot ROM Version:          MBP91.00D3.B08

SMC Version (system):          2.1f175

MBP 15

• 2.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
• Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
• 8GB 1600MHz memory
• 750GB 5400-rpm hard drive¹
• Intel HD Graphics 4000
• NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M with 1GB of GDDR5 memory

D3us wrote:

 

ciu5781 wrote:

 

Is this caused by heat? If so, it's users fault. Not apple's.

Really ciu5781?

So, it's the user's and not a desing or production process fault that the solder balls between gpu and motherboard loose contact?

How did you come to that conclusion?

Because when the user uses it, it gets to warm?

So, one should not use it to avoid it getting warm and breaks?

 

Explain your conclusion please?

I don't have confirmation it's caused by heat. But if it is, yes, you should avoid it getting hot. It shorten the lifespan of your machine. Why do you think there are plenty of laptop cooler in the market? Because people want to cool it to expand the life of the machine. Unlike inside the desktop machine like Mac Pro the condition inside the mobile machine is worst.

Still no answer from Apple?

2011 MBPs are clearly deffective products, if the 2011 iMacs managed to get an extended warranty, we should benefit from one too.

same here: 15' MBP early 2011, i7 Radeon HD 6750M

the problem started a few days ago…