Nvidia heat causing Macbooks to fail

We are shocked... shocked I tell you!
By Charlie Demerjian: Saturday, 29 November 2008

CONTRARY TO POPULAR belief, the Nvidia 9300/9400 chipset line has been fraught with problems, both logic bugs and heat. Late though it may be, it is still far from ready, and Apple is the latest victim. According to Apple Insider, the latest Macbooks have two distinct problems. The first is a lockup/black screen whoopsie when using the GPU to do such unusual things as gaming. Those darn 'customer use patterns', how could people think they could get away with gaming on their machines! The other one is distortions while scrolling. One has an easy fix, the other is much more problematic. The easy one is the distortions while scrolling. This is usually fixable with a software patch, most likely simply adding deeper buffering of frames. I expect this one to be taken care of in short order. The other one is a little more problematic. No, it is a lot more problematic, and it gets to the heart of Nvidia's greatest technical weakness, they can't keep heat and power usage under control. This chipset has a long history, and is internally code named MCP79.

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