Santa Rosa MacBook Pros experience video failures

My wife's was bought in November and she has this problem. I got mine around June and I'm fine.

I got my 17" MBP in May of 2008, and while the screen doesn't go blank, the video is sometimes corrupted when I wake from sleep. (It looks like a Magic Eye image or something.)

I believe I have traced it to a corrupt Safe Sleep file caused by sleeping the machine while VMWare Fusion is running my XP Boot Camp partition.

Deleting the Safe Sleep file (/var/vm/sleepimage) and making sure the VM is either in standby or shut down when sleeping the MBP seems to eliminate the problem.

I see a similar problem (Magic Eye image) sometimes when waking my MBP with external monitor attached.

I've also had some dialog boxes appear in a similar fashion leading to the need for hard reboot.

No VMWare running.

Is this worth pursuing with Apple before my warranty ends? Is it the same as the problem in the article?

Thanks,
Ashley.

I called AppleCare not more than a few days ago about a problem with my MBP doing hinky things upon waking from sleep. They assured me there were no reports of any problems and merely had me do the standard resets. Clearly they were lying through their teeth, a problem like this doesn't manifest and come to public attention within only a few days. When a company's customers can no longer trust a company's honesty, bad times cannot be fare behind. Perhaps this partly explains the roller-coaster ride that Apple's stock has been on.

Isn't the term "Victims" a bit harsh?

In my experience both MacBooks and MacBook Pros are plagued by a lot of problems when waking from sleep. The power managers in this generation of laptops seem pretty flaky.

I actually had my logic board replaced a few months ago for this exact problem. I had no warning. I just went to wake my computer up from sleep one morning before I left for work and it had a black screen. I had screen sharing enabled and was able to get into it that way and saw it was saying the video chipset was a x3100 instead of the 8600GT. Had no problems getting the logic board replaced and no problems yet since.

It happened just before WWDC. The Apple Store replaced the logic board and it's been working so far.

I remember my G3 iBook going through 7 logic boards and then after warranty (only 3.5 years into ownership) it failed for the final time. Apple did replace the logic board with yet other faulty logic boards. VERY frustrating. Now it sits, a piece of junk, waiting to be scrapped/cannibalized.

My 1.5 Ghz G4 PB is still going strong as ever, so, Apple dropped the ball on the ice iBook G3. Considering the cost of such a machine, I'd insist on a entirely new machine. Having seen the dark side of Apple's support, I can tell you at those prices, they owe it to the consumer.

BTW: If apple knows/learns of design flaws and doesn't choose to do right by their customers, then "victims" is an appropriate classification for buyers of these laptops.

Apple is still tops in my books insofar as computing goes, but they've a poor track record with their own Edsels.

I'm the first to complain about problems with my Mac (being a switcher), however, my MacBook Pro from June 2008 performs flawlessly... guess I'm lucky :-)