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my mbp sitting at the local fedex warehouse

looks like my mbp is about 15 miles away at the local facility. i'm in the state of washington. it sez 7:15am this morning. i wonder if it'll go out today? will they let me just walk over there and pick it up? maybe i'll be faster that way...:)
 
I just got my apple notice for my 17' MBP and I'm getting an estimated arrival date by May 11th. The hardest part of waiting is over for myself. I can't wait to sell my 15 inch MBP. Even though what I normally use the computer for would probably be adequate for just an iBook. I was playing with a 17 PowerBook and I could really tell that it was much bigger than my 15' MBP. Really you couldn't get any better than the 17' MBP. I can't wait to use mine when it comes in.
 
Got mine at 9:24 am this morning. I drove to receiving (across the street) just so I could pick it up before the guy made his rounds. I've been tooling around on it for maybe an hour, charging the battery, etc. Not getting hot at all, and quiet as a mouse.

It's glorious!
 
LosJackal said:
wmealer, have you tried pushing the envelope on it?

You can try to peg the processors with the command line "yes > /dev/null" in two windows. And then try to monitor the tempature with this:

http://macbricol.free.fr/coreduotemp/
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Is that something I would do with Terminal? Graphic designer here, so I don't get very techincal. If I have time, I'll give it a go.
 
wmealer said:
Is that something I would do with Terminal? Graphic designer here, so I don't get very techincal. If I have time, I'll give it a go.
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Download that Temperature monitor, and see if you can make that work first. You can watch any temperature changes as you do your designer stuff, etc.

But if you wanted to make the CPUs go to 100% easily, open Activity Monitor and watch the graphs. Run Terminal, open two windows. In each (because you have to do it once for each processor), type:

yes > /dev/null

You won't see anything happen in the Terminal window, but you'll see a processor suddenly get really busy. Do it for the second processor, and see how the temperature (fans?) react over time.

Just hit control-C in each Terminal window to abort it.
 
Ran your temp test...

CPU usage: 1.5% (CD in drive) -- temp: 44 °C = 111.2 °F

CPU usage: 50% -- temp: 65 °C = 149 °F

CPU usage: 100% -- temp: 81 °C = 177.8 °F

Throughout this test, the speakers or keyboard never changed much to the touch. I never noticed any loud fan noise, or whining whatsoever. The bottom surface was naturally warmer, but it felt about as warm as the side of a refrigerator. It's definitely not so hot as to make you take it off your lap. However, this is my first laptop, so I really have no point of reference.

The loudest noise it's made so far that was really even noticeable was burning a test CD. Kind of a pleasant "whooshing" noise.
 
OMG! Mine was delivered one hour after I left for work! Argh! I think I'm starting to feel sick. Yes, I do believe so.
 
wmealer said:
Ran your temp test...

CPU usage: 1.5% (CD in drive) -- temp: 44 °C = 111.2 °F

CPU usage: 50% -- temp: 65 °C = 149 °F

CPU usage: 100% -- temp: 81 °C = 177.8 °F

Throughout this test, the speakers or keyboard never changed much to the touch. I never noticed any loud fan noise, or whining whatsoever. The bottom surface was naturally warmer, but it felt about as warm as the side of a refrigerator. It's definitely not so hot as to make you take it off your lap. However, this is my first laptop, so I really have no point of reference.

The loudest noise it's made so far that was really even noticeable was burning a test CD. Kind of a pleasant "whooshing" noise.
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Very interesting. It certainly sounds promising! How long did you let the CPU run at 100%? Is 81 degrees the highest it got?

As comparison, I have an original 17" here (3 years old), and I run Temperature Monitor. I know if the temperature gets above 140 degrees F, the fan comes on until it cools to 132 or so...then they turn off again. If I run Energy Saver with Reduced Processor Usage (slows to 867 Mhz, turns off L3 cache), the computer rarely gets above 115 degrees....so the fan never comes on and the computer doesn't get hot. (Note: this is the generation before Apple added the "Automatic" processor usage setting)
 
I let it run a good 5 minutes at 100% CPU usage. 81° was the actual peak temp. Most of the time it was a steady 79, but it would spike to 80 or 81 every so often.
 
Yes, they are shipping, and I've been checking my Fed Ex tracking bookmark every hour. The anticipation is torturing me. .. .
 
ksat said:
Yes, they are shipping, and I've been checking my Fed Ex tracking bookmark every hour. The anticipation is torturing me. .. .
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same here.
Mine has been in Indianapolis for more than 24 hours now.
Just sitting there... I hate how FedEx turns 2 day delivery into 3 days..

edit: Stupid FedEx. It sat there for 25.5 hours. Could have been there this morning.
 
One Hot Computer

For what it's worth, I've been up and runing on my new 17" MBP for over 24 hours now. It's a nice machine, and I can confirm the quiet, whine-free operation. However, others reports of it running "cool" do not reflect my experience. This sucker gets frying-pan level hot after running multiple applications. I don't see any difference between this and the 15" heat reports I have read.
 
MainStreeter said:
For what it's worth, I've been up and runing on my new 17" MBP for over 24 hours now. It's a nice machine, and I can confirm the quiet, whine-free operation. However, others reports of it running "cool" do not reflect my experience. This sucker gets frying-pan level hot after running multiple applications. I don't see any difference between this and the 15" heat reports I have read.
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I've got mine now. I was trying to push it to the limit on the train this morning (battery power only) by running iTunes with visualizer (no cap on framerate). It seemed to peg the processors around 75%. I added some more load by scrolling in iPhoto, yes > /dev/null, etc....and the highest temperature I got it was around 180 degrees F if I remember correctly (and I don't think I heard any fans come on at all). 145-150 seemed to be the norm when the machine was busy. Around 120 is the bottom, when the machine is just sitting here as I type this.

I'm very happy with the performance. The heat is a natural byproduct. I don't believe mine is experiencing "excessive heat".
 
Well I got mine on Monday, BUT unfortunately I had to send it back for a replacement. When I opened it there was a nice crescent moon shaped gash in the center of the screen. Who the hell knows how that happened, but now I have to wait another few days. From the short time I did use it though I gathered that it is extremely fast, and I know I'm going to love it.
 
skeep5 said:
G5 Powerbooks on Tuesday
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Now honestly does a noob like you really need to go around using one of your less than 25 posts saying "G5 Powerbooks on Tuesday"? It really is just annoying I wish this site would allow this site a negative rate system.

But to the point of this thread anyone going to post anymore pics of the beastly MacBook?
 
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