APPLE MACBOOK PRO 2011 GRAPHICS CARD FREE
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. If I didn't have "the people side" to this job I wouldn't still be doing it.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. Even the stuff that isn't still generally involves handing something back to someone who's thrilled to have it back working again. The results of my work are instantly obvious since almost all of it is done on site. No thank you.īut I love direct support for residential and small business clients because I get to see, in real time, how fixing things for them or teaching them things they didn't know makes them anything from relieved to actually happy. That career ran its course due to burn-out from dealing with brain injury for longer than I should have, but more because of what clinical practice has become in the age where insurance companies dictate treatment plans, not clinicians based on actual client need. That's actually why I finally got out and got my masters in speech-language pathology. I never got much satisfaction out of any of it except programming, as that was always a sort of puzzle to be solved, and that lost its luster because of mismanagement and the philosophy, "There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to do it over," in order to meet arbitrary deadlines and have dissatisfied users. For most of my career in IT I was doing things like programming, database administration, system admin type stuff, etc. It's not that I hate this job, or even close to it, but the reason I got into this was not the tech side, but the people side. God bless you!! I wish I could say the same. If I don't want to provide it I say so up front (just like I did with the divorce client yesterday with regard to forensic analysis and any court testimony). So long as I've given them accurate information about it being better to spend their money on a new machine, if they refuse to do that and ask for a repair I can most likely provide, that's their choice to make. I don't have too many clients with "sentimental attachments" to older hardware, but I've had a couple. But if that were something I still did, this is a project I'd consider only as a "time required" thing (and be willing to eat the time if it didn't work). This would never be anything I'd do, period, because I stopped soldering for others years back. īut provided the client is fully informed about the ramifications of this technique, and she's willing and able to undertake it, and they're willing to pay for time required, hours are hours. I'd say that depends on whether you're charging hourly, and what the client website indicates that she has the same philosophy as I do: If I can't fix it, you don't get charged.