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[Jerry]

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:10:44 -0600, Valeri Galtsev stated:
><rant>
>To mention one more thing about Nvidia, just in general, not related
>to anything here. Macbook Pro 15 inch by Apple at some point was
>coming with discrete Nvidia chip. There were was at least one model
>that had these Nvidia chips with the bug in silicon, which was
>discovered with release of next MacOS version. All those machines with
>bad Nvidia chips were stuck with older system, and Apple (there they
>deserved my extra respect!) started program to replace all these
>machines with bad Nvidia chip for free. But the program was stopped
>really quick, and my guess is: because Nvidia (the guilty party in my
>book) refused to carry their share of financial burden in replacing
>bad hardware. Right there Apple switched away from Nvidia, to ATI
>(AMD) video chips. For good, at least as I observe so far.
></rant>

Not totally accurate. You are misstating or distorting facts.

https://www.cnet.com/news/nvidia-chip-settlement-lists-dell-hp-apple-laptops/

https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/Apple_to_Replace_Defective_MacBook_Pro_Video_Chips

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Jerry