Few devices in Apple’s history have been plagued with so many problems as the 2011 line of 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros, and now a group of lawyers is trying to see if there’s enough evidence to start a class action lawsuit against Apple. As MacRumors notes, the group made their intentions known on a Facebook group devoted to the line’s troublesome AMD graphics units.
Called “2011 MacBook Pro and Discrete Graphics Card Issue,” the associated Facebook group contains more than 2,600 members. The pervasive issues have also spawned a Change.org petition, which has amassed 11,183 supporters so far (although it still has around 3,800 signatures to go). As for the lawyers? They hail from Washington D.C.’s Whitfield Bryson & Mason LLP firm, and today they posted a message on the Facebook group.
Source: MacRumors
“Alerted to the pervasive failures concerning the 2011 MBP GPU’s, we commenced an investigation leading us to your community,” the post reads. “Your posts are a great source of information, but to determine if any legal claims may exist, we need your help.”
The “help” consists of filling out a short survey if you’ve been affected by the problems. The firm has a history of tackling such subjects, and its previous endeavors have included everything from privacy issues surrounding Google Buzz to hardware problems associated with the Lenovo IdeaPad.
And they may have a case. Around the same time that the MacBook issues started popping up, Apple initiated a replacement program for 27-inch iMacs having trouble with their AMD graphics cards. Based on this precedent, so the argument goes, Apple should replace the cards in the affected MacBook Pros.
Apple is said to have helped some users by replacing the logic boards, but the problems reportedly persist even after the repair.
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