On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 11:35:37 -0500, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

Here's something to cause heartburn for the Apple enviers who are
whining in that other thread!
http://fortune.com/worlds-most-admired-companies/apple-1/

Astro and natu http://www.primordial-light.com.
Miscellany and nature macrophotography:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/primeval.

What on earth has any of this to do with an Apple repair program
undertaken under the pressure of a class action?

it was not done under pressure of anything. it would have happened
without any lawsuit (and has in the past).

What has it even got to do with Apple deciding at lon last to repair
faulty graphics cards?

they can't do much until amd fixes the faulty part.

at least you realized your earlier claim of it being due to the solder
was nonsense. it's the gpu chip (not a card, there are no cards
anymore).

See
http://photos2.appleinsider.com/gallery/10154-2234-140812-AMD-l.png
and the article from which it comes
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/08/12/apple-ignores-calls-to-fix-2011-macbook-pro-failures-as-problem-grows
or http://tinyurl.com/l7gbmo5

"Early-2011 MacBook Pro discrete AMD GPU."

This can clearly be soldered separately from the motherboard.

So can the separate sub-boards shown in
http://guide-images.ifixit.net/igi/QWKKPpAh4AHJm1bf.large
and
http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/ifixit_13rmbp_logic_board.jpg
plus many others more.

To argue that it _can't_ be solder is nonsense.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens