Apple Pulls MacBook Graphics Update

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The update Apple posted the other day for GeForce powered Macs has been pulled. Apparently for some people the problem with their MacBooks got worse after the update. It seems like, at least for now, you are better off living with a stuttering mouse pointer and bad HD playback until they get this worked out.

AppleInsider spotted the disappearance of the update on Wednesday, after Apple had released it on Monday. The Web page that hosted the update has been removed from Apple's site, but a copy was available in Google's cache; missing the pertinent file, of course.
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Guess you can't have your cake and eat it too. This is for all you Mac gamers out there, j/k (flame on).

Atleat they are working on it, props and they are going to have a flawless machine...once they get it worked out. Surprised Mac doesn't just go with an alternative solution, no had content and mouse till they get the problem fixed, problem solved; no HD for MAC!
 
RangerXML said:
Surprised Mac doesn't just go with an alternative solution, no had content and mouse till they get the problem fixed, problem solved; no HD for MAC!
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no HD content and no mouse till they get it working.

No edit button, curse you!
 
haha, must be the "quality" nvidia chipset.
 
DeFex said:
haha, must be the "quality" nvidia chipset.
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Pretty clever. Too bad you didn't bother to read that it's a corner-case issue which 99.9% of people won't hit. Every driver on every platform has bugs. This is just 1 of them.
 
"It was designed to fix issues with flickering displays raised by some MacBook owners with the use of external monitors over the miniDVI ports on the new MacBooks. A scan of Apple's discussion boards shows that the update didn't seem to fix the problem for everyone and in some cases, made the problem worse."

Heaven forbid.
 
BlueStorm said:
Pretty clever. Too bad you didn't bother to read that it's a corner-case issue which 99.9% of people won't hit. Every driver on every platform has bugs. This is just 1 of them.
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Nvidia chipsets are doing quite well with HD acceleration under windows and now under linux. It looks like the bug is the Mac OS.
 
I am a Mac, I am perfect. All inferior computers will be sterilized, as soon as my GPU works.
 
Apple computers having error messages, driver issues, and now a pulled update. I am sure there are more than a few fan boys out there sticking their fingers in their ears and talking really loud now to hear that this.
 
i played with osx for a few days recently, i just dont see the point. its an operating system, nothing special. if you have to pay for one why not get the most compatible? and if you dont want to pay then linux is great... osx just doesnt do much good other then keep windows on its toes a little...
 
Any company that has total and complete control over what hardware goes into their machines, there should be no excuses for having an unstable system.

That's all there is to it.

Considering you also control all the hardware that goes into your systems, you know exactly what hardware you have out there as well. Therefore, your QA job should actually be easier since you know EXACTLY what hardware exists.
But alas Apple once more defies all logic and can't get right even the simple task of a graphics update.



Microsoft supports millions of hardware configurations and yet Apple has passed them in almost all issues lately. It's another reason why Apple would fail if they ever tried to step outside of their niche market that they are in, and venture into the "real" PC world.
 
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