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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by panpanna on Sunday August 16, 2020 @06:16AM (#24176636)
> I'm 100% convinced the delay was caused by Nvidia refusing to accept responsibility.

To be fair, the issue was mainly caused by Apples form-over-function thermal design.

To best of my knowledge, Nvidia GPUs works just fine in all other laptops.

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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by evancox100 on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:27AM (#24178096)
100% not true, my Dell Latitude at the time also died. There were major class action lawsuits at the time and basically all the manufacturers had to accept liability and fix them.
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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by mschuster91 on Sunday August 16, 2020 @06:52AM (#24176776)
No. I had a laptop in 2010 that also suffered from this issue, and there were also PC GPUs affected.

Laptops were only affected en masse because they have far more heat-cool thermal cycles than the average desktop computer.

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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by numpad0 on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:04AM (#24177869)
Discrete GPUs break all the time, customers are just used to it. Maybe it’s improving since GTX1xxx/RX4xx era but they were extremely unreliable when Apple was using them/industry was switching to RoHS compliant Pb free solders.
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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by kcb on Sunday August 16, 2020 @12:35PM (#24179139)
This issue was industry wide. RIP my XPS M1330.
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Re:Arm co-founder: Sale to Nvidia would be a disaster by zokula on Sunday August 16, 2020 @05:43PM (#24181612)
> To best of my knowledge, Nvidia GPUs works just fine in all other laptops.

Nvidia bumpgate says hello.

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