Now that the talk of just how shiny and nice looking the new MacBook Air is has settled down, reality is hitting a few users who decided to invest in the first batch of hardware.
The video below gives you all the evidence required to realize there is a problem with either the graphics chip or the graphics driver in the MacBook Air, and it is apparently happening on both 11″ and 13″ models.
The description on that video reads as follows:
The Air suddenly froze, cutting Bluetooth connection to my Magic Mouse (even after I restarted…I had to re-connect manually), and the screen started flickering like crazy. The only thing I was doing at the time was reading MacRumors forum threads and looking at MBA sleeves to buy – no YouTube or anything was open at the time. Only iTunes was open in the background.
You can’t see it well, but the flickering consisted of tiny green/red/maybe blue lines, kinda like when an old TV gets static.
A forced shutdown with the power button seemed to resolve it; closing the lid to make it sleep failed.
A patch is already available from Apple for other issues (unresponsive system during iMovie use and wake from sleep), but the flickering screen is a new issue. When and what triggers it is unknown, it seems to be random.
If you are experiencing the problem with your MacBook Air, or want to know more about it, then there’s a discussion thread about it on the Apple forums. [Geek]
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