apple 2011 macbook pro logic board recall

This may decrease battery life.” – if you are not OK with that do not disable this option

Note the text which states this may decrease battery life on the MacBook Pro “When automatic switching is disabled, your computer will always use high-performance graphics.

Uncheck the box next to “Automatic graphics switching”.

Go to the  Apple menu and choose “System Preferences” and then go to “Energy” control panel.

This will disable GPU switching and force the MacBook Pro to use the higher powered discrete graphics card rather than the integrated GPU. To turn off the dual graphics capability of the GPU, install gfxCardStatus for Mac

I’ve saved about twenty 2011 15” MBP using this gem, it’s also free -) It uses a completely different GPU and will last you a good while into the foreseeable future. You may need to do a slight modification to the LCD cable to get it to fit in the new board.

These use a different chip and will work. If you have a 15 inch, I'd say get a 2012 board for it. You can replace the battery with easy contrary to the 2012 and up Retina. These machines are nice as far as serviceability. The heat involved in reballing will do the same thing that a $30 heatgun from home depot will do. This again will only last for a short amount of time. Heat will make the chip work for a short amount of time. Sellers on ebay that claim to replace the GPUs are more often than not heating the chip up with a heatgun. Most supposed 'New' AMD chipsets are either rejects or reballed garbage, so while soldering a new chip to the board is not a problem, getting a good chip that can last and be reliable is. So with these, pretty much any chips we can get for them will not last very long.

Apple 2011 macbook pro logic board recall