Noisy DVD Drive - Noiser than usual

I just bought a 13" Macbook, making my Apple purchase total somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 machines. As everyone knows, when you power on a Macbook or Pro, the DVD drive engages, following my the Apple "Tone" and computer bookup. I noticed on the new 13" aluminum Macbook that this noise seems to be rather loud and very mechinical sounding. I went back to the store, but is much noiser than my apartment, and seemed to hear it there also, but I'm not sure if its to the same extent. Does anyone else notice on bootup that their DVD drive makes all sorts of funky noise.
Thanks,
Justin

I've noticed a similar problem as well. I got my first aluminum macbook on the 17th and noticed that it was actually pretty quiet, but I ended up taking that unit back because all the function keys were slanted. The one they exchanged it for has slanted function keys again lol (I guess I'll get used to it), but the superdrive does sound a littler noisier on startup and when I unlock the system after it has been sleeping. When I actually insert a DVD into the superdrive though it sounds exactly the same as my late 2007 white plastic macbook model. I don't think it's anything to be concerned about. Maybe the aluminum enclosure unibody is just the reason it sounds different.

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