nVidia Laptop GPU Settlement

[Mercutio]

Looks like people who have Apple and Dell machines with faulty nVidia GPUs can get the GPU replaced for free.

 

[LunarMist]

It is a little late. :-x

 

[Stereodude]

I don't have anything in that list.

 

[LunarMist]

I don't either. All of my notebooks are Centrinos or whatever it is called now. There are probably some of the old Dell Latitude notebooks at work, but I doubt they'd do anything about it at this point.

 

[Mercutio]

I have some customers who have Latitude D630s, and both my parents' notebooks are affected as well. People keep Apple notebooks forever and ever. Even if you don't personally own or support this hardware, you probably know some people who do.

 

[LunarMist]

If the old laptops are working fine now, would you send them in?

 

[Mercutio]

Yes, because I strongly suspect those chips are the single biggest impediment to the laptop having a long life regardless of its present operational state.

I have a couple made in 2000 750MHz IBM T20s in my apartment that still work just fine. Someone can say that these are notebooks that are four years old and their useful life has past, but I'd rather have one of those Latitudes than a brand new Acer-anything.