OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review

Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by bitL on Thursday October 16, 2014 @06:27PM (#8468201)

I started experiencing GPU panics on rMBP in the past week as well, I guess NVidia or related circuits have some issues. I switched it off using gfxcardstatus and now it's stable running on Intel HD only. Try to do the same - if it stops crashing, your discrete GPU might be damaged.

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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by amirmansour on Friday October 17, 2014 @12:38AM (#8469444)

I had the same issue with my mid-2010 MBP. They actually had a recall, but I was late to it! I'm somewhat disappointed that this issue still persists in some later models. gfxcardstatus helped a little in my situation, but the problem got so bad that I literally could not used the computer. $3K down the drain :(

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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by mattgreenrocks on Friday October 17, 2014 @12:30PM (#8471759)

Me too. I suspect Chrome to be involved, if only because they had this problem back in 2012 as well, around the time the rMBP came out.

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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by junkblocker on Sunday October 19, 2014 @05:00PM (#8479595)

I noticed Chrome crashing whenever I was in the Chrome store too many time. The 'graphics error happened' message after the crash was another clue. So I turned off native graphics acceleration in Chrome's setting and it's not crashed since then.

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Re:OS X 10.10 Yosemite: The Ars Technica Review by mattgreenrocks on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @10:38AM (#8487543)

Yeah, I hate posting "I think it's such and such" without looking at logs, but realistically, very few apps are trying to be their own OS.

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