It's taken Apple far too long to respond to these issues. If it so happens that AMD or Nvidia owe Apple some hundreds of millions for bad parts and replacement costs, well, sucks to be them but that shouldn't be the retail customer's problem.
will be handled between me and Apple(Apple can, of course, use 3rd party suppliers or contractors but they count as 'Apple' when dealing with me). If I buy a laptop from Apple, I should be able to expect that interactions concerning its function, warranty coverage, etc.
The details of who dropped the ball make for interesting techie news but from a product liability/customer-vendor relationship angle, should not be relevant: If Apple screwed up, they should eat the cost, if AMD/Nvidia screwed up, Apple should go after them and claw back the damages but it isn't up to you to insert yourself into the clash of the titans. If AMD has had a similar issue, it has been much less well publicized, so (along with the fact that Apple has nearly identical advisories out for both Nvidia and AMD GPUs) I'd be inclined to suspect that Apple has been getting a bit optimistic about cooling.Įither way, of course, the bigger issue is that, when you buy a laptop, the relationship is between you and the company that made the laptop, not you and every last ODM and supplier that contributed to the laptop: Companies that pushed the envelope harder(like Apple, who loathes thickness and fan noise, and thus cooling) were bitten sooner, while other OEMs, and desktops in general, tended to be bitten later but the part simply didn't do what the datasheet claimed it would. It isn't always that simple: In the case of the Nvidia underfill/cracking issue, the GPUs affected would gradually die even if installed and cooled according to Nvidia's directions.
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