Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 11:37:30 -0500 From: Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life Message-ID: <20200221113730.7c5a3d3e@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <b5b62051-2aeb-a078-84ff-5d5a6014fd75@kicp.uchicago.edu> References: <20200217231452.717FA1E820@freefall.freebsd.org> <CAFYkXjmZi1-MB6W0HsMx9gHek7Xg5heoSKKWkNTnw74dxRTwAw@mail.gmail.com> <ead08f6c-3dc4-210d-b321-549eb0ad721f@malikania.fr> <20200220154101.GA53326@ghostyhead.chthonixia.net> <CAFYkXjnKO2ayKjh4KKTL1y_rcMbF62CePMcG=Z3KVtptU%2BUGPQ@mail.gmail.com> <20200221010421.GA54290@ghostyhead.chthonixia.net> <CAFYkXjnJvfBi68Zg6gf8Jr3n4O9C=F3pM8rbHDGKcbmQE2DUMw@mail.gmail.com> <20200221055139.GA969@ghostyhead.chthonixia.net> <CAFYkXjkJoyh-n%2BXhAi%2B7WLRWgfZRzta9v=vSduqF=DdKABz=cg@mail.gmail.com> <20200221160938.e35b4ca4.freebsd@edvax.de> <b5b62051-2aeb-a078-84ff-5d5a6014fd75@kicp.uchicago.edu>
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:10:44 -0600, Valeri Galtsev stated: ><rant> >To mention one more thing about Nvidia, just in general, not related >to anything here. Macbook Pro 15 inch by Apple at some point was >coming with discrete Nvidia chip. There were was at least one model >that had these Nvidia chips with the bug in silicon, which was >discovered with release of next MacOS version. All those machines with >bad Nvidia chips were stuck with older system, and Apple (there they >deserved my extra respect!) started program to replace all these >machines with bad Nvidia chip for free. But the program was stopped >really quick, and my guess is: because Nvidia (the guilty party in my >book) refused to carry their share of financial burden in replacing >bad hardware. Right there Apple switched away from Nvidia, to ATI >(AMD) video chips. For good, at least as I observe so far. ></rant> Not totally accurate. You are misstating or distorting facts. https://www.cnet.com/news/nvidia-chip-settlement-lists-dell-hp-apple-laptops/ https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Apple_to_Replace_Defective_MacBook_Pro_Video_Chips -- Jerry
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