OS X Lion Ships With Faulty NVidia Drivers

TeaCurran writes with this mildly ranty objection to the most recent Mac OS X update; several friends who have made the leap on their MacBook Pros have various other complaints, too, including system slowdowns that resemble crashes (except that their pointers still work) and recurring black screens for some configurations (with or without the kernel panics TeaCurran mentions) — what's been your experience? "Apple OS X Lion shipped with new NVidia video drivers that are causing anyone with a mid 2010 Macbook Pro to get a kernel panic every 5-10 minutes. Apple knew about the issue before shipping lion, hasn't responded to the issue, and is censoring posts in their support forum that mention words like 'boycott' and 'petition.' NVidia has responded that the drivers are the responsibility of Apple so they won't deal with the issue. How a major hardware manufacturer can ship such a faulty product without getting much press about it is completely beyond me."

Selective reporting

[Anonymous Coward]

"How a major hardware manufacturer can ship such a faulty product without getting much press about it is completely beyond me."

It is easy to explain... Apple is the Obama of the tech world.

In this thread......

[polaris20]

anecdotal evidence of single experiences are given as credible information. One laptop != significant indication of reliability, or lack there of. We've got a couple nVidia-equipped machines that are working fine too, but that doesn't mean there isn't a problem, despite my vast Lion user base of four users currently testing the OS.

The wonderful thing about Apple product

[Anonymous Coward]

Remember, Apple is better than Windows because it "Just Works".

You're holding it wrong...

[PinchDuck]

Apple will release a video of Steve Jobs showing you how to hold the computer properly.

Re:Does it now?

[ColdWetDog]

Let's do a test, I'll go to CBS news (a typical news site with unmoderated comments) and click the first story I see. Yup, sure enough, the comments are completely fucking retarded. [cbsnews.com]

Those weren't the comments, they were the stories.

Re:The really disturbing part of the story.

[grimmjeeper]

Here's a thought. You could keep your customer service forum from becoming a whining troll fest by, oh I don't know, responding to the problems quickly. It's a radical concept, I know. But it's a thought. . .