According to theAppleBlog.com, “it seems like some graphics issues is more of a ‘coming of age’ thing for a new Mac product than something that surprises or worries us” but users are reporting that recently-shipped 17″ MacBook pros are displaying green lines and “ugly screen artifacts” that seem to be tied to the new NVIDIA GeForce 9400M video cards in the machines.
TheAppleBlog went on to say that “it’s hard to believe that a machine so expensive, after such a long delay, could have such serious and quickly apparent problems. I suppose you could excuse Apple and just chalk this up as another NVIDIA screw up, but Apple must do some serious testing with these machines before they release them to the public. The alternative, of course, is that they were well aware of the problem but opted to stick to internal deadlines and deal with the problem down the road…[snip]…Whatever the issue, Apple seriously needs to stop shipping significantly flawed products, or their reputation for quality isn’t going to last.”