The MacBook Pro problems - are they a regional issue ?

I spent a couple of hours today in my local Apple Center here in Finland.
I had a long talk with the 2 guys that work there, had a look at the new MBP. Got my face right down on the machine, couldnt hear anything. Yes the casing below the screen felt hot but thats all.
I asked them about the issues being discussed; they told me they had read all the discussions & were aware of the issues.
They also told me they had sold 40 - 50 MB Pros and NOT ONE had come back or even generated a phone call.
I am wondering if you guys in the USA have a bad batch from one of the factorys ????
Regarding BootCamp - the guys had installed it on several machines and not experienced any of the partition problems thats also being discussed for dual booting OSX and XP.

Hello syntrak
Don't you think that maybe more than 40-50 laptops get sold in the U.S. I got mine in Helsinki, Finland and it had the CPU whine. After one week I returned the machine, because Apple would do nothing about it. The demo machine at the store also had the same problem. The salesmen were equally annoyed about the whine when they learned about it.
It's a shame that the MBP has the whine. I would definitely have one if it didn't whine. I will rather live without the MBP than listen to the whine.
And do also remember that not all of us Europeans speak English or read these forums... Also worldwide only some of those who have problems or questions come here.
The good thing is that because of the same reason that the whine exists we will get rid of it soon: fast product cycles. There will a new model soon and hopefully that will be closer to flawless.
Power Mac G5 Dual 2.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.6)

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