2010 MacBook Air owners reporting logic board and display issues

Early adopters typically run into weird issues when putting their first generation gadgetry to use, and owners of the new MacBook Air models are no exception. Indeed, on the day of its release Apple had to push out a software update to stop the system from locking up while in iMovie — but that wasn’t the end of the woes. Thanks to a YouTube video, we’ve seen for ourselves evidence of a display flickering in a most unappealing manner, and we’re hearing tales of other display issues, kernel errors that occur when the machines are trying to come out of sleep mode, and more. There’s not been an official response from Apple yet, we’re not sure how widespread the problems are, and we haven’t experienced these issues first hand on our devices — but we’ll let you know as soon as we hear something. Promise. In the meantime, it looks like some of you might have a date with the Genius Bar. Video after the break. Continue reading 2010 MacBook Air owners reporting logic board and display issues 2010 MacBook Air owners reporting logic board and display issues originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink

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