Time to send in the old MBP or just buy applecare and pray?

Hello All,
Last week I sold my life (my 2x 1.8Ghz Powermac and 1.33 14" ibook) for a Macbook Pro. I purchased a refurbished MBP 2.0 Ghz and i was so excited, but now, I have the whine (which i fixed using QuietMBP a nice program. and I keep getting these painful shocks on my forearm while I am using it (while its plugged in). I still can return it but I dont know what to do!?! I still have over a month of school left and need a computer. Should I just sent this beast in or buy applecare and wait?

If you need a computer and cannot get hold of another one if you send the MBP in then I guess you have to hold on to your purchase in order to complete your school work.
If you feel that you can live with the workarounds to the whine then you may as well keep the machine and enjoy all the other great features that work well.
Once you keep the machine and register it with Applecare then it's more or less "yours for life" unless you try to sell it later on, though I'm not sure if these early MBPs will fetch a good price down the road if later revisions come out without these (or other major) problems (think: the hot revision A of the Powerbook 12").
So, the question really is: is your current MBP something you are either prepared to live with and enjoy for a long time or maybe take a hit on during re-sale later on? Or would you sleep better at nights having returned it, making do with a temporary machine and waiting for something better to come along?
Another thought: since nobody has officially said that the CPU whine is a recognized problem yet, it may be something that is recognized and fixed down the line, but the possibility also exists that it never will get fixed, except in the next revision of the product. So, I wouldn't count on a fix at this stage.

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