- #MID 2010 MACBOOK PRO GPU PANIC RECALL FOR THE MID 2010 INSTALL#
- #MID 2010 MACBOOK PRO GPU PANIC RECALL FOR THE MID 2010 WINDOWS#
I installed Elementary OS (5.1 Hera) and I am loving it so far.
#MID 2010 MACBOOK PRO GPU PANIC RECALL FOR THE MID 2010 INSTALL#
Should I install Windows? That’s blasphemy.
So I decided to go down the path of installing another OS. Turns out both my Intel iGPU and nVidia dGPU are having trouble and I have no idea why – maybe I flexed the motherboard ever so slightly while dismantling it and knocked some solder joints loose? Ugh. Thinking this might be a problem with the old, hardened, and poorly applied thermal paste, I pulled the heat sink apart and applied a new coat of thermal paste only to make it worse: this time macOS would get stuck when booting up. I was able to throttle the GPU, or force the laptop to use only the built-in Intel GPU, and it solved the problem – but not for long. Unfortunately sometime around 2018 (I think) the laptop started to crash/freeze randomly: It seemed to be a GPU heat-related issue because it would crash when I ran something GPU intensive, such as AutoCAD Fusion. In 2016, I upgraded to a new MacBook Pro Retina 15″ and was very hesitant to sell this old workhorse away, so I kept it as a spare which I used occasionally at home or when travelling. 4th gen (2016) MacBook Pros had only USB-C ports, an unreliable keyboard with the butterfly mechanism, and a bunch of other issues such as thermal throttling. 3rd gen (2013) “Retina” models had memory soldered on the board and had massive Staingate issues.
#MID 2010 MACBOOK PRO GPU PANIC RECALL FOR THE MID 2010 WINDOWS#
Till today, the screen, keyboard and touchpad on my 2010 MacBook Pro 15″ still beats most Windows laptops on the market – bear in mind this laptop is now 10 years old and has traveled the world with me.Īfter the 2010, MacBook Pros started going downhill: Late 2nd gen (2011) MacBook Pros were riddled with AMD GPU problems.
The battery was also a replaceable component and not glued to the case. These aluminium unibody MacBooks were the first to have built-in batteries which gave it a much larger battery with incredible battery life, but still had user-replaceable SATA drives and RAM. The second generation 2010 MacBook Pro 15″ (MacBookPro6,2) with the Intel Core i5/i7 is arguably one of the best MacBook Pros Apple ever made, bar a few issues.
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