The first MacBook Pro equipped with the Touch Bar arrived this week among the first American buyers. But some have noticed, soon after unpacking their brand new machine, more or less serious problems concerning the graphics card, and more generally the stability of the computer. A concern worrying enough for some to call it "GPUGate".
The new 15-inch MacBook Pro, whose delivery began a few days before the 13-inch model, boasts a Radeon Pro 450 graphics chip (upgradeable to 455 or 460), with a minimum of 2 GB of dedicated memory. This card, supposed to provide the computer with enough power for treatments of all kinds, suffers from bugs of display whose explanation is not known, as shown a user of the forums of MacRumors. These problems appear randomly, may last more or less long, and are sufficiently troublesome to prevent proper use of the computer. The traditional manipulations to empty the PRAM and reset the hardware configuration to zero will not change anything.
The term "GPUGate" is not new for MacBook Pro. Many pre-2010 models, which were at the time equipped with NVIDIA chips, also experienced many graphics chip problems that tended to make the soul prematurely. Inevitably, the specter of these fragile MacBook seems to hover again on this range of 2016, especially since the first 13-inch models also seem to suffer from more or less serious problems as soon as the box exits, as evidenced by a site editor American Gizmodo, who had to return his machine under repair just after unpacking it.
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