Apple offers free MacBook Pro repairs

CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- California's Apple Inc. Friday posted notice it would extend free repairs to MacBook Pro owners with NVIDIA graphics processors. The company admitted in July that its 15-inch and 17-inch laptops with NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphic processors were experiencing "a higher than normal failure rate ... due to a packaging defect," the company said. Consumers found the graphics either "distorted or scrambled," Apple said. Others... [read full story]