rMBP thunderbolt woes

[Daniel Frome]

Nope, no offer to replace. Part of the problem is that this is a 16GB model, which nobody ever carries in store. It’s just a BTO model.

I wish they had offered to replace, even temporarily with an 8GB model, but no dice.

[Mark Dobson]

Good luck Daniel.

It’s an indication of the way things are going unfortunately. I hope your issue get resolved quickly.

[Jon Barr]

Retina MBP here running perfectly with a Promise Pegasus. I’m sure everything will work fine once they’ve returned your laptop.

Shame that they didn’t replace it there and then.

[Daniel Frome]

Hi John – are you running the R4 or the R6? And do you have any devices chained after the unit?

[Jon Barr]

R6 with the Thunderbolt Ethernet chained out of the Pegasus.

[Shane Ross]

I’m running the non-retina 2012 MBP…but no drive off the TB port. I switch between a TB to DVI adapter for my computer display (well, FSI 2461 via DVI…use as a computer monitor) and TB to my AJA IoXT to the FSI 2461. Zero issues…but that is only monitoring.

Since I have a firewire port, I don’t have an adapter for that. And since I lack any TB drives…I don’t have those issues. I guess I need to get one to see if it has the same issue? See if it is an rMBP issue, and not a MBP issue entirely.

I’ll see if CalDigit can send me anything.

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[Jon Barr]

the issue at this point only appears to be one rMBP? Am I missing something or is this a widespread occurrence beyond this thread?

[Rafael Amador]

Couldn’t be that a thunderbolt drivers issue?
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[Daniel Frome]

It sounds like it’s a general issue with most of Apple’s “thin” laptops. I doubt it affects the non-retina 2012 MBP but good to check it out.

As a pint of issue: the displayport component is never affected by this issue. Even when my Promise RAID disconnects the displayport monitor (daisy chained) does not cut out. It’s something specific with thunderbolt, not displayport.

Either way we will find out in a couple weeks if the laptop comes back fixed.

[Gary Adcock]

Daniel,

I am going to say that as an R-MBP owner, I am not seeing any Thunderbolt issues whatsoever on my 2.6g/16G /768GB version running Mountain Lion.

Have you changed out your cables? I so far have found 3-TB cables that have underperformed or were not functioning when I opened the packages.

Contrary to an earlier posting – Most TB devices do not “Have” to have power over the TB cable to run correctly.

Have you tried changing the monitor connection from one of the older “Display port” connections to one of the newer TB versions of the same connector?

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