Well, the first one had a bad disk in mine, which is perfectly acceptable so I've got no problem with that and this whine seems to be a lot less noticeable on the 3rd one, it's still there but you can't hear it over the background hum of the fan now. Problem is it's one of them noises only some people can hear I think, but once you've heard it you hear it all the time. Lots of people have reported the same thing though so I dunno, but I did hear someone's Dell Pentium 3 laptop at work making the same noise so it's probably one of them within spec things.GeeZa wrote:[In all seriousness, even though poor Snakester might be about to put a big DM boot through the screen of his new tech, I don't think Apple have a big reliability problem. It's just when things do go wrong with Apple kit people create websites about it and the issues are plastered all over the net within seconds. The one issue I can see with the new MacBook/Pro line is that there's an awful lot of powerful tech crammed into a thin case. The physics of cooling must be more difficult than the generally fatter Inspirons. But so far at least for me, fingers crossed, I've had no issues with my MacBook. That'll probably mean it all goes wrong tomorrow.
Mine idles at about 60, but the bottom and certain parts of the top are warm to the touch and you're not meant to actually use it on your lap. (He says typing this in bed.)
Maybe this has helped ?
