john

After obtainting the RMA number and shipping the MacBook Pro computer back to Apple on Monday a new MBP arrived Friday morning! Excellent, Apple!

The new MBP seems to be working fine. The MBP is still much hotter than my ThinkPad which had a heat problem until I put raised legs under it. I’ll be adding 1/4 inch stubby feet (from Radio Shack) to the bottom of the MBP to keep it cool by allowing the heat from it’s underside more space to escape.

Oh, it’s really nice to have a quite computer to work with. Thanks Apple.

All the best,

Peter

When I called Apple tech support to return it they didn’t believe me until I turned on the MBP and left it on during the rest of the call! After a while they said “Oh, that’s annoying” and I said “Yeah, and that’s on your end of the phone, imagine how loud it is here!”.

OH, and did I mention that the AUDIO DOES NOT WORK at all! Yup, no audio!!! OTHER than the SCREECHING! No soundtracks for videos! No music! No beeps! Nada. I guess dissonance is in at Apple or their suppliers.

I managed to watch two movies before the screeching started: Tron and Immortal Ad Vitam. They were awesome on the MBP.

NONE of the methods of calming the beastie have worked!

The only thing that seems to work temporarily is to put the computer to sleep mode and then wake it up again! Ah, quiet! Until you do anything that plays a sound of any kind! Then the banshee is out blasting FULL VOLUME. Yeah, the volume controls don’t make a difference either.

There is also no screeching when running the hardware test untility. Hmmm…

Your QuietMBP program didn’t work.

Sigh, back to Apple goes the MBP! Hopefully the next one actually works.

Oh, and I should point out that this was my first Macintosh computer in over fifteen years! So far the switch from the - ick - PC isn’t going well. Dead Mac in five days of it simply sitting on my desk. Not a good sign - do you hear that Steve Jobs? Get your quality control up to snuff; you can do it, otherwise… iHeaven help Apple.

Apple has a VERY BIG QUALITY PROBLEM THAT IS TURNING OFF BUYERS. I almost returned the MBP and everything else as a result of this and their “run around” tech support people. They get ONE more chance, and then DELL or Lenovo (aka ThinkPad) get another call.

All the best,

Peter

ps. Good luck and don’t accept a schreeching MBP or any low quality “DEFECTIVE” product like that from Apple Inc.. Insist on a return for a new computer or a refund. Oh yeah, don’t accept a run around from their people either! DEMAND a functioning computer - after all that’s what they advertise, isn’t it?

It appeared when I inserted a pcmcia wlan card.

Can someone check if the sound disappears when you disable wlan?

i thinking about buying a MBP with the 2.16 intel core 2 duo processor, does anybody know if these machines have the same noise problems??? thanks.