I went through two 2007s, one 15 and other 17, now im on a 2008 17,
all had unrevised NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT chips, each with diferrent variants, and diferrent VRAM.
What Ive learned to temporarily prevent failure of these unrevised variants, if it hasnt failed yet, or has been "repaired" by...
I’m sure there’s probably a simple technical explanation behind this which I haven’t yet found on MR or elsewhere. Maybe the resident GPU experts on here — ahem, @Amethyst1 — might have some insight.
Why would neofetch report a MacBookPro4,1’s GPU not as a GeForce 8600M GT, but as… an Intel HD...
(This was supposed to be a thread for sharing some good news. That good news will probably have to wait a while longer.)
Anyhow, if you’ve read this far, I’m thinking this board will have to come right back out and be returned to the seller. I hope I can share much better news sooner than...