A new firmware update from Apple is designed to fix the “possibility" of vertical lines and distorted graphics on the new, 17" unibody MacBook Pro. This will come as good news to the hundreds or thousands of owners who thought that Apple had simply shipped machines with defective graphics cards.
The problem can be seen in the photograph above, taken from an Apple Support Forum posting by Forcefedmedia. The lines appear when switching to the more powerful GeForce 9600 graphics card — sticking with the integrated graphics fixes the issue.
Hopefully, given that Apple has now released this firmware update, things will be fixed. The prevailing thought said that this was actually caused by fried graphics processors, and it’s easy to see why, especially if you lived through the iBook G4 (and some G3) issue of some years back, which actually was a hardware problem.
Still, the unibody MacBooks have generally been the best Mac launch in years, with much fewer teething troubles than usual. Any giant, 17" MacBook toting readers should let us know how things go.
About the MacBook Pro Graphics Firmware Update 1.0
[Apple]
Screenshot: Forcefedmedia
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