Recieved a hissing and whining MacBook Pro. Now what to do?
I recieved my week 17 MBP (15,4" - 1.83) last week, and have since been putting it through the paces. Unfortunately it does have some of the problems I've been reading about on this board. Here are the symptoms:
It has a intermittently hiss coming from behind the keyboard, this goes away when turning on the mirror widget. (This must be the CPU noise?)
It has a much louder high-pitched "whine" coming from the screen that becomes noticeable at around 70% screen brightness, and becomes very annoying with the brightness turned all the way up. (Inverter ?)
Temperature-wise I'm a bit puzzled. It does become kinda hot, especially on the "bar" behind the function keys, but The keyboard never comes near "too hot to touch". I've installed CoreDuoTemp and yesterday it was running at around 32-36C constantly. Today it's running at around 60-70C with the same CPU usage.
What do I do now? How do I proceed? And what would be the likely outcome of my actions?
Do I contact Apple, or am i better off just learning to live with the problems and waiting for a potential software fix.
Note: I've bought it through the Apple online store.
It is annoying spending this amount of money on something that seems to be flawed.
Cpu whine: you should get used to it or use work arounds or iTunes.
Screen buzz: it's fixable. Call Apple Care.
Temp: the .kext might not be stable yet, Cryptonome's still working on it. Or your sensors are not working properly (it's less likely though). And there's still no benchmark as to what's the "normal" range. Only thing we know is that Intel says that it's ok up to 100C. If doesn't shut down, should be ok.
Alternatively, and most probably, you can get a swap since you're under the famous 14 days.
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Presently using a 2008 15inch and living with some mouse freezing...wey wrote:
I have just signed a new and probably the last employment contract which includes a new
Laptop..
Am Considering the 15 inch, 8GB, 512GB Solid State DR.
After reading through some of the discussion threads, decided to post the question
and ask if I am doing the right thing?
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Presently using a 2008 15inch and living with some mouse freezing...
If you are basing your conclusion that their are freezing, or other problems with the Macbook Pro on what you read in the help forums I think you have reached an incorrect conclusion. If you reached a conclusion on the health of Americans based on only visits to a hospital emergency room you would conclude that everyone is in poor health.
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