My experience
I've had my 15" santa rosa macbook pro for about 5 weeks now. I've had a good deal of crashes, freezes, and hard restarts.. many times more than I ever had with my previous powerbook g4. From day one I've had a hard time with updates of any kind. They'd install fine, and then it would take forever to restart. Not a little longer.. more like 10-20 minutes on average, with multiple occasions of me leaving it restart overnight and wake up to it still trying. The only solution would be to take the battery off, unplug it, and hold the power button for 5 seconds.. resets the power i hear.
One week after I got it I was watching some video on a flight and the video card went. I could tell because of the odd way in which it froze.. I've never seen it before.. I took it into apple and they took a week to repair it. New logicboard since the video card is attached. after I got it things were seeming alright.. I never noticed the yellow tints or any problems with the display.
Then came that update, the firmware.. I actually noticed a faster startup time afterwards, and my display still looked fine. I just assumed they fixed the drivers for the new videocard, the nvidia. But now that I've been using it for a good while I am noticing the same long restarts, and poor video processing, as it would seem. windows server is very commonly the biggest cpu drain. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that the desktop rendering process. Aperture runs slightly fast than my old powerbook. Quicktime takes much much longer to open any file. 6-10 seconds now compared to 1-3 usually. everything video is noticeably laggy. And all updates are still causing issues with the reboot...
Is this a common thing with santa rosa owners?. how can I test my video card?.. any help at all is appreciated. Ask any questions that would help describe the situation.
I've had my 15" santa rosa macbook pro for about 5 weeks now. I've had a good deal of crashes, freezes, and hard restarts.. many times more than I ever had with my previous powerbook g4. From day one I've had a hard time with updates of any kind. They'd install fine, and then it would take forever to restart. Not a little longer.. more like 10-20 minutes on average, with multiple occasions of me leaving it restart overnight and wake up to it still trying. The only solution would be to take the battery off, unplug it, and hold the power button for 5 seconds.. resets the power i hear.
One week after I got it I was watching some video on a flight and the video card went. I could tell because of the odd way in which it froze.. I've never seen it before.. I took it into apple and they took a week to repair it. New logicboard since the video card is attached. after I got it things were seeming alright.. I never noticed the yellow tints or any problems with the display.
Then came that update, the firmware.. I actually noticed a faster startup time afterwards, and my display still looked fine. I just assumed they fixed the drivers for the new videocard, the nvidia. But now that I've been using it for a good while I am noticing the same long restarts, and poor video processing, as it would seem. windows server is very commonly the biggest cpu drain. Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't that the desktop rendering process. Aperture runs slightly fast than my old powerbook. Quicktime takes much much longer to open any file. 6-10 seconds now compared to 1-3 usually. everything video is noticeably laggy. And all updates are still causing issues with the reboot...
Is this a common thing with santa rosa owners?. how can I test my video card?.. any help at all is appreciated. Ask any questions that would help describe the situation.