Compiled List of MBP Problem Threads

[warstrekkid]

I decided about when they released the new MacBook Pro model that I was going to switch over, and since then, I've been keeping an eye on the forums here at at notebookreview for whatever problems people are having. I've been stashing the links to them, and I figured that I might as well share that.

Here's a general list of the problems I've seen and links to them. I guess it'd be prudent to check all these things when you get one, and if you have a problem, see what people did about it.

Of course, if you have anything to add, I'll keep an eye and edit.

1. Heat
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=307191 Hot MBP
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=316736 Thermal Paste discussion
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=316319 discussion about smc Fan Control

2. Light-Bleeding

3. Uneven backlighting

4. Dead Pixels
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=311412 Pixel poll
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=316360 App to test for dead pixels
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=318508 Dead Pixels, and Apple policy on it

5. Sleep/Boot up/Shut down
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=737415&tstart=0 The BIG thread about it. Your best source about this problem
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=131723 Various other problems as well
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=317846 Randomly booting up
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=233839 Doesn't sleep and freezes afterwards
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=321678 Problem noted, no responses
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=319061 Draining battery while sleeping

6. Warped Lid
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1000986&tstart=0 Problem and some home-brewed solutions
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=133690 It happened, little other news

7. Yellow tint
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=315081
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=313239
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=318198
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=318259
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=321592
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=314130

8. Static
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=317489 static from interference

9. Flickering (mostly at lower brightnesses)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=986781&tstart=0 Massive thread about this
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=316882 Just discussion

Surveys
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=315411 alright poll, and very favorable
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=135669 small poll, but useful
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=314479 very good poll with details; I think I'm going to update the numbers on it, actually

Hope this helps.

[chem]

Impressive list. Now you just have to extract all the reliable information from each of them and turn it all into a wiki page. haha. Good luck ;)

[spawn135]

Hey warstrekkid,
Thanks for the list. It really does help..
Hopefully Apple will pay attention to these problems and address them in their next release.

[Papajohn56]

This worries me about the replacement I'm getting :(