The company announced Thursday that it would repair affected products free of charge. It clearly was not an isolated problem, as a petition calling on Apple to issue replacements for affected models has been signed almost 40,000 times.Īpple successfully had the lawsuit dismissed in January, with the judge ruling that the "plaintiffs have failed to allege that Apple's logic boards were unfit for their ordinary purposes or lacked a minimal level of quality."īut Apple seems to have had a change of heart. The lawsuit was brought against Apple in late 2014 by customers who said the MacBook Pros they purchased in 2011 had severely defective graphics cards and that Apple should be forced to pay for the repair. A photo of the graphical issue taken from the petition calling on Apple to launch a replacement program.Īfter successfully battling a class-action lawsuit last year, Apple is finally acknowledging a long-running issue with MacBook Pros' graphics hardware and has begun offering free repairs, MacRumors reports.
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