Per a serious of widespread complaints, Apple's early 2008 MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops appear to be suffering from instances of visual corruption where, in many cases, text duplicates, documents fail to scroll properly or videos and animations flicker.

According to apc, these problems appear to be most prevalent with QuickTime or Flash clips when viewed in a web browser or when the system uses its WebKit component, which has received specific attention in recent updates.

The issue itself appears to be independent of the notebooks' actual graphics hardware, given that the MacBooks and MacBook Pros use integrated Intel chips.

Unconfirmed rumors have implied that the issue may be related to the Leopard Graphics update, which appeared around the same time as the Mac OS X 10.5.2 update while other users have stated that the problem remains despite returning their notebooks to factory defaults.

A fix may be in the works, as other users have stated that the developer build of Mac OS X 10.5.2 can help alleviate the problem, though not entirely.

Apple has recently acknowledge the existence of the problem, but has yet to offer a fix: "Apple has received reports similar to the behavior you are describing and we are investigating those reports," a message from the company states. "Further information will come in the form of a Knowledge Base article, Software Update, or Software Release."

If you've seen this on your end or discovered a fix or workaround, please let us know over in the comments or forums.