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2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by reitzensteinm »

dvdhsu wrote: post #33
reitzensteinm wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely second getting an SSD instead. It's the single biggest upgrade you can do to a PC today, especially for laptops. If you can live with 128gb of storage, a RealSSD C300, the current performance king (although check Anandtech for updates, this is changing all the time) is $264 from Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148... This thing will do 30,000 4k writes a second, which is or…

I would actually give the SandForce drives a try. They have better garbage collection. TRIM is coming in Snow Leopard, but it is always nice to have good garbage collection on the hardware. SandForce wins right now in $/gb, and 4K writes. It loses in anything that is limited by the SATA2 bus, such as sequential transfers.

Ah, good point about the lack of trim in OS X. The Sandforce controller would indeed be a better fit there.

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by Pheter »

ramanujam wrote: post #20

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…

Could you provide more information regarding the free exchange please? I bought a 13" macbook within (I think) a month of them releasing the new models.

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by jason_slack »

I have a 13-inch 2011 MBP, i7 Model with 8gb of RAM.

I am running 3 simultaneous video encodes that takes 3 Apple Keynotes and encodes to .mp4, .3gp and .ogv from a terminal + Playing 3 other Keynotes in Quicktime + Random music in iTunes + Playing The Social network all at the same time for the last 35 minutes and I am running fine.

Can I run any test for anyone to help out?

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by azim »

joelhaasnoot wrote: post #18
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.

My Fall 2009 model overheats and locks up and crashes when playing games like Starcraft 2 or Left 4 Dead 2. That's not to say every notebook from 2009 had cooling problems, but some certainly do.

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by gtani »

Tyrant505 wrote: post #25
derefr wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The early-2008 models, with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT. http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377

Mine is still rockin, same vid card... best machine I've ever bought! (first mac)

Mine works, doesn't exactly rock, more like generates huge amounts of heat. This after a Powerbook g4 that needed 4 or 5 logic board transplants, and a plastic macBook (core 2 duo) that was dog slow.

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by bluekeybox »

Maci wrote: post #15
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/

Oh, the legendary ATI drivers.

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by celalo »

uptown wrote: post #19

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.

Actually it is not a good idea to upgrade from Apple store. It is much more expensive, it does not make sense, you can buy those from anywhere else.

Yet, there are some stuff you could only get from the Apple store like CPU upgrade.

As others mentioned, SSD upgrade makes more sense than RAM upgrade. Although you can buy the SSD from elsewhere, this time it makes a bit sense to buy it from Apple store because TRIM support is already out there for the disks you buy from Apple store in Mac OS X 10.6.6. The other SSDs are not supported yet.

Re: 2011 MacBook Pros Crash Under Load

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Post by watmough »

derefr wrote: post #8
patrickod wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What particular model of MacBook Pro are you referring to? Those with Nvidia GeForce 9400M ?

The early-2008 models, with the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT. http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2377

Mine is still rocking too. I was just stress-testing it with, ahem, Warcraft...
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