New Macbooks are also affected by nVidia issues..

[NickK]

Those that remember the failing nVidia chips - it appears that there's issues with the new chipset that are part of the new series..

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/29/nvidia-heat-causing-macbooks

The problem is that Snow Leopard OpenCL will increase the load on the GPUs - with the current belief that heavy load is causing them to heat up and fail - would logically cause more to fail than normal..

Doh!

 

[NickK]

Inquirer get the Electron scanning microscope out..

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...le-macbook-pros-have-nvidia-bad-bump-material