2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load • Hacker News Board

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by riffraff » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 11:16 AM UTC

IanField90 wrote: post #6

modoc wrote: post #4

I had the same issue. Instantly cured it by disabling the "Automatic graphics switching" option. Hopefully there will be a better fix forthcoming, but for now it's pretty easy to solve. Even with that headache, this is by far the best laptop I've ever owned. Amazingly fast.

I guess that this doesn't occur on the 13" models then?

it would seem so even looking at the linked thread, at least I did not notice anyone reporting isues with the 13" models

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by sycren » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 11:18 AM UTC

Im having the exact same problem though with a 2007 mbp though so it could be a software update that I installed

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by swah » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 11:33 AM UTC

modoc wrote: post #4

I had the same issue. Instantly cured it by disabling the "Automatic graphics switching" option. Hopefully there will be a better fix forthcoming, but for now it's pretty easy to solve. Even with that headache, this is by far the best laptop I've ever owned. Amazingly fast.

About the speed: how can these laptops be getting twice the speed, twice the graphics performance, etc ? Didn't the previous model already had the i5 and i7?

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by Stormbringer » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 11:57 AM UTC

Geee wrote: post #2

They could try downclocking for temp fix.

Sounds like its graphics, not cpu

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by Maci » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 12:01 PM UTC

modoc wrote: post #4

I had the same issue. Instantly cured it by disabling the "Automatic graphics switching" option. Hopefully there will be a better fix forthcoming, but for now it's pretty easy to solve. Even with that headache, this is by far the best laptop I've ever owned. Amazingly fast.

Same here, it would appear Apple is a bit too aggressive with it's power management and it's confusing the living daylights out of the ATI driver when it's on automatic.

Switching manually works a treat sofar... http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus/

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by l0nwlf » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 12:11 PM UTC

Mine is 2009 model and I have yet to face this issue. Although my Optical drive died this January and it throws out DVDs when inserted but that is the only problem I have faced so far.

EDIT: Was just stating that 2009 MBPs have no such issues IMHO.

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by joelhaasnoot » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 12:25 PM UTC

swah wrote: post #13

modoc wrote: post #4

I had the same issue. Instantly cured it by disabling the "Automatic graphics switching" option. Hopefully there will be a better fix forthcoming, but for now it's pretty easy to solve. Even with that headache, this is by far the best laptop I've ever owned. Amazingly fast.

About the speed: how can these laptops be getting twice the speed, twice the graphics performance, etc ? Didn't the previous model already had the i5 and i7?

They did have i5 and i7, but Sandy Bridge versions is new as well as Thunderbolt

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by joelhaasnoot » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 12:31 PM UTC

l0nwlf wrote: post #16

Mine is 2009 model and I have yet to face this issue. Although my Optical drive died this January and it throws out DVDs when inserted but that is the only problem I have faced so far. EDIT: Was just stating that 2009 MBPs have no such issues IMHO.

Seems like all the reports are on the _2011_ version, with isolated incidents on the 2010 version. 2009 is mentioned nowhere.

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by uptown » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 1:08 PM UTC

Somewhat off-topic, but I trust the judgement of those here. I'm in the market to buy one of these. I was wondering whether current owners feel the extra 2MB of L3 cache justifies the price-bump of the 2.3GHz processor.

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by ramanujam » Sun, Mar 20, 2011, 1:15 PM UTC

I had the 13" 2010 version and got bumped up for the free exchange since i was in the one month window and got the new 2011 version.

I noticed that when i started Parallels and opened my second windows VM instance everything came to a stand still and i had to restart. I also saw someone in the Apple discussion threads mentioning a similar issue while running Vmware fusion. I will try the 'Automatic graphics switching' and hopefully it gets better, else back to the Apple store!