I had fixed a software problem – the OS wouldn’t boot – but not tackled the underlying problem. That confirmed it – the graphics chip was overheating! I asked if the client was doing anything graphics intensive and she confirmed that she had been using Photoshop at the time. This now sounded suspiciously like a hardware fault. All was well with the world until the next day, when I got a text message that it had started displaying the same symptoms again, only this time “after having a rest” it would boot up as normal only to reboot again. I had returned the Macbook in working order, even booting it up in the presence of the client to prove that it was working. In this second part, I’ll reveal that this wasn’t a happy ending for me or the client. They are what I have my creative cloud subscription.In part 1 of this post, I detailed how I got a Macbook Pro that wouldn’t boot back up and running using a bootable Mac OS USB drive. Lightroom & Photoshop CC are what I have the Mac for. Will that run Lightroom CC (I use classic and CC) & Photoshop CC in a usable way? Will the loss of graphics processor effect it? Make it not run at all? I occasionally edit video with Premiere, but I can easily get by without that.

So it will make it more like it's smaller 13' brother that came out at the same time but without the cursed dedicated graphics adapter.Ģ.2 GHz Intel 'Core i7' processor (2675QM), with four independent processor 'cores' on a single silicon chip, a 6 MB shared level 3 cache, However obviously this will mean I won't have any graphics acceleration. They said they can mod the logic board to completely bypass the graphics chip, and the machine will never have the same problems again. I have spoken to an Apple specialist, who said replacing the board (as I already have found out) is just resetting the time bomb. I'm going to have to buy a new machine eventually, but i'm just not in a position to do so right now. I thought Apple would be fixing the issue, however the programme simply replaced a logic board with known issues, with a new logic board that had exactly the same known issues! So the same graphics fail has happened again. I had problems and had it fixed as part of Apple's recall programme a few years ago, but the problems have started again. I have a late 2011 15' MBP (with the ill fated graphics processor problems) Hello - I have searched and can't find anything on this - so apologies if it's duplicate.

Macbook pro 2011 graphics card recall