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Apple MacBook Air Ping!
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Posted on 11/04/2010 6:01:17 AM PDT by PugetSoundSoldier
The sleek new MacBook Air models unveiled late last month are the slimmest computers Apple has ever produced — but the manufacturer still managed to find the space to pack in a few troublesome bugs. Early MacBook Air adopters have taken to various forums as they voice complaints surrounding Apple’s new MacBook Air (Late 2010) models. While Apple has yet to address any of the reported issues publicly, a source informed BGR that the manufacturer is investigating several of them internally. Included among the issues is a bug where the display flickers or shows horizontal lines of varying colors when a computer wakes from sleep or after hot-plugging a display. Another bug causes the screen to fade from light to dark repeatedly after waking from sleep. Apple’s internal support system includes suggestions for interim fixes in each of these cases, but no permanent fixes are available at this time.
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My guess is an overheating graphics processor - they stuck too much GPU (to compensate for the underpowered C2D processor) in there for so little cooling, and it's probably running too hot, causing all kinds of little errors and glitches.
Shouldn’t swordmaker have posted this so he can tell us how it is FUD and “no big deal”?
Maybe another Apple device rushed to market too early?
Probably...;)
“Honey, we shrunk the computer too small.”
Pushing the state of the art is not without its pitfalls.
Why not just spring for a few hundred more and get a MacBook Pro?
In this case they needed to go with a Core 2 Duo because it is an ultra low-voltage, small form-factor processor that only puts out maybe 10W. None of the Core i series use that little power (an i5 is closest at almost twice the wattage), so the combination of Core 2 Duo and 320M (Apple's low-end Core 2 GPU) surely produces less heat than a Core i-series version.
Size. Ultra-portables is an expensive market.
Too early to tell.
It could be large scale component failure, such as Dell had with one of their suppliers a few years back.
It is polite to ping the people you are talking about.
He seems to skip most things not anti-Microsoft or pro-someoneelse.
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I did a lot of work on miniaturization of electronics. Sooner or later you reach the point of trying to cram six pounds in a four pound bag. Never works...
I doubt that. This is a wake from sleep issue when the components are cold not over heated. If it were a cooling issue, it would rear it's ugly head after running for awhile, not when it's starting up on a warm awakening.
I so agree. While I admire many technologies; they should possibly slow up a bit and test these products before marketing them.
That goes for everything.
The problem supposedly occurs upon awaking from sleep. Would the processor be overheated at that point?
"Apple has stated internally that the aforementioned issues have been isolated and will be addressed in an upcoming software update. When dealing with customers, Apple employees have been instructed to state that the company is aware of these issues and is working on solutions. . ."
I may have missed it, but there does it say SOFTWARE CAUSED the issue? It could be hardware related but they use software to work-around the issue.
For example, it could happen if the GPU is overheated and the software fix is to slow down the CPU when it gets to X temp or to run the fan quicker.
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