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Apple Offers Extended Coverage for 2011-2013 MacBook Pros with Video Issues

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Not sure what to make of this, but, when my MBP died (could not even boot), I was so fed up with Apple that I bought a Lenovo...with Superfish on it. We'll see how the repair goes. Maybe I'll be crawling back to OS X now (though I wiped out the Lenovo installed Windows long ago). This move goes a long way towards repairing the good will towards Apple that I had lost.

Funny, the exact thing happened to me. My 2011 MBP essentially bricked itself before Xmas and I replaced it with a Lenovo. I happened to delete the Superfish app as part of my normal crapware cleanup, but I didn't know about the still-there Superfish certificate until today.

I'm glad Apple finally acknowledged the issue and decided to make everyone who had the issue whole. I don't think I'll buy an Apple again though -- the unibody was in my opinion, the perfect form factor for a laptop -- user upgradeable RAM and HD but still a manageable size. Apple's new habit of soldering everything had me planning my exit before my 2011 Macbook died.

I also discovered the Superfish app fairly quickly (I use NoScript in Firefox and noticed best-deals-products.com being blocked everywhere). I decided to reinstall Windows from Microsoft because I no longer trusted the Lenovo OEM version. It was actually pretty straightforward to download the installer from Microsoft [1] and the drivers from Lenovo (wireless didn't work until I installed the driver so definitely don't do this without an ethernet connection or a USB drive with the drivers). I generally followed this guide [2] (it was written before Microsoft let you download the installer for free so ignore the part about buying the media). This is easier to do when the computer is still new and you haven't taken the time to set it up how you like though....

[1]: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-re... [2]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/12/flushi...

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