I got so fed up with my MacBook Pro’ s problems that I took it to Apple Store to get it repaired. I told the Genius at the bar that I was having heat issues. Touching it almost burned my hands. She asked if I had any burns. Well, no. I wasn’t dumb enough press my hands on it long enough to burn. I’m not a masochist.
I told her that it got so hot that I couldn’t have it on my lap, not even with jeans. She said that it was not meant to be on my lap. It was meant to be on a flat surface like a table or desk. Well. Hello! It’s a laptop. I told her that I wasn’t having the heat problems with my Powerbook 12”. She said it’s within spec, it’s a new powerful processor, it’s supposed to get hot, unlike the G4. Well. Okay…
It comes to no surprise that when I told her about the two whines (high pitched and hissing), she said they were within spec. Sigh. After the incident with the Blue & White G3, I told myself that I would never buy a Rev. A Apple product. But my developer discount was expiring. Oh well.
The whine seems to disappear with I disable the other core. I’ll just have to remember to enable the other core when I’m do something processor intensive. I tried the mirror widget workaround, but it seems to remove an hour of battery life. Ironically, it’s very quiet when booted under Windows XP.
As for the heat issue, I’ll just keep it on the iCurve. I’ll try to be more persuasive and make a big scene at the Apple Store next time.
sorry to hear that you MBP gets too hot. Mine comes fromWeek 16 of production (you can tell from the serial number) and never gets hotter than the pleasant “laptop massage” setting. however, i am miffed that the x1600 GPU is apparently underclocked. lame on Apple’s part for sure.
anywho, i too have been cursed with “the whine” while on battery, andfigured that it had to be bad software since there was no problem in XP. my temporary workaround has been to delete the IOPlatformPluginFamily.ktext file from /system/library/extensions/ . some say it hurts battery life, but working in silence is worth it until the problem gets patched.
well, relative silence. i also have the infamous “mooing fan” sometimes (again, only in OSX and not XP) but i find it funny rather than annoying, and it is so soft i can only hear it in a dead silent room.
Hey Steve… when I feel my laptop getting a “bit to warm”, I place a plastic cutting board on my lap and the computer on top of that…. works really well plus the rubber feet of the laptop grip the board so it doesn’t slip… well, not as much anyway.
Betcha no boss was with that clerk, huh? What is she, some kinda doctor or something?
I mean, tell me, if you said you had burns, what would she even do? That’s funny.
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A ‘ plastic cutting board’ . ROFL. Damn.. if that’s what I am up to
I just ordered a MacBook pro in order to be able develop a CoreImage application on a fast machine… I just hope that I’ll still be able to work on it without burning my hands…
Hahahah .. Maybe she was asking about the burns so that they could give you some insurance cover ..
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And oh btw … This style rocks .. ! :thumbsup: ... Maybe I’ll use it too .. !
There is actually a falw I heard in the Macbook Pro. Apple like forgot to but some type of glossy coat on the inside or somthing like that. So that macbooks get intesivly hot. Now I heard this from newsvine so its proboly relible info but you never know.