Macbook wine fixed?

Just curious do any owners of the newer macbook week 26+ not have any issues with the dreded cpu wine? I heard something recently about apple changing the logic board they use as to get rid of the wine problem. I think that might have been mbp's though. Reason I ask mine has both the wine and moo and I have 7 days left on my return policy with my week 23 macbook.

You are correct from what I understand. The MBP's are the one's with the new MB's.
I had a week 26 MB with the whine. I think that all MB's have what is reffered to as the "whine" but not all user's are referring to the same thing when they say "whine."
I have a high pitched sound coming form the left of the keyboard. The same sound comes from the power adapter. It is not loud. It is almost nothing. Definitely nothing to worry about. Barely noticable espesially while running on battery.
Some people don't even notice this "whine." Those will be the user's that tell you that there is no "whine" at all.

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