my iBook G4 1.33Ghz 12" never gets hot. I always have it on my lap while I surf from the good old couch, and I use it til the battery goes on me, which is usually between 5-6 hours…

Quote: Originally Posted by aristobrat We use Lenovo ThinkPad T60s at work. They're dual core , thinner than the MBP and only a few mm thicker than the MBP, and their cases run…

I got my Macbook a few days ago (5 to be exact) and before buying I read forums and blogs about the supposed heat issues , and I was a little concerned. But I bought one and have b…

Well, I never really had a whine issue, but now that I have upgraded to 10.4.7, it has started, and is driving me insane. The machine is a Week 16 model, and I was under the impre…

Exchanging it won't do much. You will most likely get another whiner. I think it's the keyboard update that makes it much worse, which was included in 10.4.7. When I installed t…

Thanks, I appreciate your help. I would have thought that by now Apple would have fixed this issue, since my understanding is it is related to how the CPU is soldered to the mothe…

Here's a link to the Apple forums. Read the instructions in the second post. Follow the link and download the file for 10.4.6 named IOUSBFamily.kext 2.5.0 and install the file WI…

dahcar, you forgot the link... KraziKid, I'm not sure it has anything to do with the processor-I think it's more related to power management internally. In fact, it sounds like a…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter dahcar, you forgot the link... KraziKid, I'm not sure it has anything to do with the processor-I think it's more related to power managemen…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter dahcar, you forgot the link... KraziKid, I'm not sure it has anything to do with the processor-I think it's more related to power managemen…

Quote: Originally Posted by dahcar Sorry, i forgot the link: http://discussions.apple.com/thread....31486&#2231486 I tried your suggestion, and it has not fixed it. Ma…

Quote: Originally Posted by KraziKid I tried your suggestion, and it has not fixed it. Man, this whine is really unbearable. So no one is getting new ones without the whine ye…

Quote: Originally Posted by KraziKid The CPU on the MacBook Pro is certainly soldered in. And it is related to a solder joint vibrating at a harmonic frequency, according to my…

It's the DC board making the whine. If it were the processor, then people that own the iMac or Mac mini would be complaining about it too.

The trick with the kext worked fine on 10.4.6, but I did it with 10.4.7 (you're meant to download the 2.4 version, not the 2.5) and my built in isight stopped working, so it's a no…

Quote: Originally Posted by Dave Hagan It's the DC board making the whine. If it were the processor, then people that own the iMac or Mac mini would be complaining about it too…

No such whine from my machine. If you're convinced its a pin on the processor, then no amount of software will fix it. Send it in for a motherboard swap.

Quote: Originally Posted by KraziKid Oh my god, does no one read my post? And did you not read mine? As I said, I have a hard time imagining a pin that is only a couple of m…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter And did you not read mine? As I said, I have a hard time imagining a pin that is only a couple of millimeters long BEFORE it's soldered in …

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter This is also kind of hard to believe when the sound seems to come (amazingly enough) from the same location as the DC board-which I believe …

dialo is right. There are two types of whines. The inverter whine depends on the screen brightness setting. If your whine doesn't, it's the CPU whine. The CPU whine starts when the…

Quote: Originally Posted by ghporter Appologies-I was thinking of the MacBook, rather than the Pro. The MacBook's CPU is socketed. Wrong again... The MacBook & Pro's…

Quote: Originally Posted by Simon dialo is right. There are two types of whines. The inverter whine depends on the screen brightness setting. If your whine doesn't, it's the CPU…

Yeah, I think you're right. I don't recall having heard reports of the inverter whine on a MB sans pro.

Quote: Originally Posted by harrisjamieh Wrong again... The MacBook & Pro's are soldered, whereas the iMac & the Mini processors are socketed. I could have sworn I …