When Apple released its MacBook Pro laptop, reviewers called it an evolutionary improvement and touted its new GeForce 8600 GT mobile graphics processor, made by Santa Clara, Calif.-based Nvidia. Now some models may have faulty chips.

After months of speculation that the MacBook Pro included failing Nvidia chips, Apple finally said Thursday that three MacBook Pro models manufactured amidst May 2007 and September 2008, including the 15-inch, 17-inch and Early 2008, may have faulty chips.

But Apple said it

was not at fault in a note posted on its MacBook Pro Web site. The company said Nvidia told Apple that Mac computers with the graphics processors were not affected.

It was not until its own review that Apple determined some MacBook Pro computers with the GeForce processors were affected.

“Our analysis shows that a failure in an Apple MacBook Pro notebook is remote,” Nvidia spokesperson Derek Perez said in an e-mail. “However, […]

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