MBP C2D owners: is there still warped lid problems?

Does any of you, already owners of a macbook pro core 2 duo, have any warped lids?
i wonder is apple fixed that, or if it is THAT common.
thanks !

It's no worse than my 15" powerbook the MBP is replacing. The left corner is pretty much flush when closed. The right is a millimeter higher than the left. If you get a marware keyboard rest, it makes the closure completely flush.

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Hi All,
So here's the deal... My new MPBP C2D 15" 2.33 screen stays black, off or broke (not working) when I open my lid after the computer is asleep sometimes. I know the machine is working despite the screen being off. Once I was listening to iTunes and pressed the space bar to stop the music and closed the lid because I was leaving. I came back a few hours later, opened the lid and the screen would not come on. I then pressed the space bar knowing that iTunes was the last app I used and the music began to play. Last night I was editing some video and saved the program and closed the lid for the night. Came back to edit video this morning and opened the lid and the screen was dark. Again pressed the space bar to play the video and the audio began to play.
This has happened a few other times and I am forced to hold down the power button until the machine powers off. Obviously the computer is working except for the screen. What now?
Peace,
Bryan

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Be sure to backup your data first as my FAQ says:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
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MBP C2D owners / Logic users: Post your benchmarks

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Annoying wake from sleep glitch due to warped lid

Anyone else have this behavior? My MBP came to me with the warped lid wherein the right hand side of the lid does not sit flush with the bottom of the computer when closed. Once the computer is put to sleep (LED winking, fans off etc.), if I pick up the book on the right hand side to slide it into my bag, I hear the audible hard drive wake up noise and the book starts to wake. If I immediately stop and set it on the desk for a few moments, it goes back to sleep.
I can't repeat this behavior if I grab the left hand side of the computer. It seems as though there are some slim tollerances for the latch switch to tell the computer to wake up and the warped lid exacerbates this behavior. I'm considering a call to Apple Care, but for now use deep sleep to ensure this thing isn't riding around awake.
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Anyone else have this behavior? My MBP came to me
with the warped lid wherein the right hand side of
the lid does not sit flush with the bottom of the
computer when closed. Once the computer is put to
sleep (LED winking, fans off etc.), if I pick up the
book on the right hand side to slide it into my bag,
I hear the audible hard drive wake up noise and the
book starts to wake. If I immediately stop and set
it on the desk for a few moments, it goes back to
sleep.
I can't repeat this behavior if I grab the left hand
side of the computer. It seems as though there are
some slim tollerances for the latch switch to tell
the computer to wake up and the warped lid
exacerbates this behavior. I'm considering a call to
Apple Care, but for now use deep sleep to ensure this
thing isn't riding around awake.
mbp 2.16 Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.6)
As stupid as it sounds, apple does not support the use of moving the computer while it is in "sleep" mode. There was another thread about this somewhere here a few months back. They only suggest you walk around with the computer off to avoid any hard drive damage. It's really annoying.
I'd try to get that lid fixed if it really looks warped. Or you can get these little translucent bumpers to keep your lid level on both sides (sorry I don't have the website I thought I bookmarked it). Just google search for macbook screen bumpers and you should find!

Help! I Can't Boot from Firewire Drive (Previous MBP C2D Hard Drive)

Can a hardrive from a C2D Macbook Pro start an i7 Quad MBP?
I just sold my 2008 15" 2.4ghz C2D MBP, (that had 10.6.5 installed), and today bought the newest
17" 2.2ghz i7 Quad Core MBP, (that has 10.6.6 pre-installed.)
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+(note: The 15" Macbook Pro I just sold, booted fine from this HD in the FW800 enclosure.)+
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I rebooted holding down the option key, selected the FW drive, and pressed the arrow below to continue startup.
The grey screen with the apple came up immediately, but I was horrified that the spinning gear never did appear, and startup froze at that point. I left it like this for five minutes. Grey screen with apple. Frozen.
So, I held down the power key, shut it down, then restarted holding down Command-S to run Disk Utility in SIngle User Mode, (/sbin/fsck -fy). Disk was okay.
I rebooted into the new internal, installed Diskwarrior 4.3, and checked the FW800, and it had no errors.
I opened Startup Disk in System Preferences, and chose the FW800 drive as the Startup Disk, and rebooted. Same result. Grey screen with apple, and no further...
Can someone please help me troubleshoot this?
Should I be able to boot this new MBP i7 with the HD from my old MBP C2D?
Is there something incompatible between the old C2D and i7?
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Ho Lee MACkeral wrote:
That CD2 OS will not boot into a new computer's OS.
Hi, thanks for replying.
I knew that the switch to Intel from ppc, meant a ppc drive, partitioned with APM could not boot an intel machine with a GUID partition table.
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2. and why?
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Why not use Migration Assistant in the Utilities folder?
I am planning on doing this.
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The new machine has 10.6.6 pre-installed.
I figured that if I was able to upgrade the old drive to the same OSX first, it would provide a more seamless migration.
I was also concerned that my applications on 10.6.5 might become broken if they were migrated to 10.6.6. I really do not want to have to install everything.

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15" MBP C2D reboots on lid close

Well, it's happend twice in the last 24 hours. I unplug the new 15 MBP C2D. I close the lid. <Dong> The laptop immediately reboots with the lid shut. Not sure if it is a hard reboot or soft, as I haven't had any applications with unsaved work lost -yet-....
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Problem: DVD-RAM can no longer be read on MBP C2D

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Anybody gonna cancel order for 17"MBP C2D if shipping gets delayed again?

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many people seem to have wireless connectivity problems with their MBP
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1) MBP C2D + Linksys + WEP = no problems
2) MBP C2D + Airport Express + WEP = no problems
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for reference, my previous laptop:
4) Pismo + Airport Express + WEP = no problems
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does this match anyone else's experience?
and more importantly, is there some fix?
thanks in advance for your feedback or suggestions
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Hi!
Used to have same problems. But not anymore.
Here's what I did. I have a DLINK 624 router. not the same model but this could help you, I guess
1) Disable Super G mode into router.
2) Choose a 62 character key with a $ in front of it. (go https://www.grc.com/passwords.htm) and use wpa2.
3) Uncheck the Robutesse Interference (sorry, i am french) in the airport menu.
4) Change the advanced performance settings from auto to 11 (Tx rate) into router.
5) Whent into keychains and only kept the one for the active wi-fi. Since I tried almost verything, there where a lot!
Since I did that, no more lost connection for a day now!
Now I am not saying that this is the ultimate fix....but It worked for me.
BTW, did not do the SMC and EFI upgrade, still a little scared after what I read in the forums...I bought my mac book pro last week...how come it did not came with all the upgrade done??!! bizarre.
Good luck!

Mbp c2d help!

hi there i have a mbp c2d and it states on the apple site the idle tempreture is 30 - 35 degrees but mine runs at about 43 - 47 is this normal and also iv noticed the ejects key and the escape keys are at a slight angle to the rest of the keys should i phone up apple and get a replacemtn as i dont live anywhere near an apple store. plz can anyone help

The heat on the specs page mean the heat on the outside the machine is best suited for operating in as an external environment. The heat on the inside of the computer has no published limit. Temperature measuring tools online measure the heat sensor on the inside, whose temperatures have nothing to do with the spec page's heat indication and only have meaning for an authorized service technician since Apple does not publish to the general public what the internal heat sensor maximums are. Generally users here have guessed what the arbitrary heat maximum is based on experience of frequent crashes or random shutdowns just after the heat reaches a certain limit. However, this may be meaningless still because it could be caused by bad RAM, bad preferences, bad cache, or bad permissions. A more reliable indicator would be a hardware test that tells you the RAM is bad, your hard disk getting too full, or repairing permissions or repairing disk yielding something it can't fix. For more on directory and permissions repair, see my http://www.macmaps.com/directoryfaq.html
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http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238
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