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Apple’s Boot Camp fries MacBook Pro’s new speakers

by on30 November 2016

Quality that only money can buy

Apple’s expensive new MacBook Pros are shipping with an expensive feature which causes the pricey speakers in the machines to self-destruct.

The upside is that the user must spend $175 at least to have the speakers fixed, which is great news for Apple because it will make even more money. We are often told that Apple is a superior company because it makes more money than all the others so this sort of issue should make it even more superior.

The feature was created by Apple's software design genii and in this case it appears that they did not test its Boot Camp driver software properly. For those who came in late, Boot Camp is designed for Apple users who are aware that they are running cut down software on an over-priced and out-of-date PC. It allows them to run a proper operating system like Windows 10 and turn the Pro into a two-year-old Windows machine and make it far more useful.

But the 2016 MacBook Pro machines causes what the Tame Apple Press calls some “serious and uncharacteristic audio issues”.

The speakers running on the refreshed MacBook Pro line aren't working so well with the obsolete drivers provided in the current version of MacOS Sierra Boot Camp.

Users are reporting the problem on all models of the 2016 MacBook Pro, and they are not experiencing the bug in MacOS. Virtual machines using Parallels or other software are also not experiencing the issue, providing more support of a bad audio driver causing the problem in Boot Camp.

At the time of going to press, Apple has not solved the issue or even mentioned that there is a problem. Don’t hold your breath. Just repeat the manta “Apple knows what it is doing” until you believe it.

Last modified on 30 November 2016
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