So what about my MBP with an nVidia chip?

Question

Now I may be beating a dead horse here; however, I think the question must be lurking in a great deal of our minds at this point with regards to the nVidia graphics cards in our MBPs. Since nVidia announced that "significant quantities" of their GPUs were defective in the 8400/8600m model line, manufacturers such as: Hewlitt-Packard, and Dell have addressed their concerned consumers by extending their warranty on their products in accordance to which models are affected by the defective chips. I myself work in a retail store, and have had to deal with these customer's concerns with regards to what will happen to "their" laptop, I am wondering what I should be telling my Mac customers... and more importantly, what should I be telling myself!
I purchased my MBP at the end of April of this year, and received it in the beginning of May. I have read online that many of the issues were fixed around that time; however, I still concerned that the computer I diligently saved up for a year to purchase will have the same Achilles heel as my Toshiba A70 purchased back in 2004 (a defective nVidia GPU with no re-call). I am suddenly fondly reminded of a scene in the movie Fight Club, where Edward Norton describes the process that a manufacturer goes through before determining whether or not to issue a recall.
I'm just really wanting to know when Apple is going to address their customers in regards to this well publicized and well known issue? I currently to this date have yet to have a customer come in and specifically refer to a graphics problem with their MBP since they have been going with the 8400/8600m series GPUs; however, I'm concerned what is on my desk is a ticking time-bomb.

Answer 1

Both HP and Dell have limited warranty enhancements for this issue. In the case of HP, it extends the warranty to 2 years from the date of purchase, or 90 days after repair (whichever is longer). For Dell, its (quote) 'we plan to add 12 months of coverage for this issue to the existing limited warranty up to 60 months from the date of purchase'. I'm not actually sure what that means; on the one hand, it sounds like they're just adding an extra year of coverage (similar to HP), and on the other, it sounds like they'll fix it if you have the GPU problem any time up to 60 months after the purchase (which I find hard to believe). I'm wondering it that's actually supposed to be 60 days instead...
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01087277&lc=en&cc=us
http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2008/08/18/nvidia-gpu-update-dell-to-offe r-warranty-enhancement-to-all-affected-customers-worldwide.aspx