17" Problems —*anyone else?

[DHagan4755]

I have two peculiar problems with my new unibody 17" MacBook Pro...

1.) My optical drive vibrates and is loud with certain media to the point where I am using the machine at the same time my hands feel like I just used a lawn mower. And it is 2 for 4 burning discs of different types (DVDs / CDs). It comes back with burning errors.

2.) From time to time, my hard drive makes a high pitch sound for about 20-30 seconds and fades. The drive comes back as OK in tests and works OK...but it is concerning.

Anyone else had these problems with theirs?

P.S. I am noticing my screen flickering at low brightness too. This is something that just seems to have started.

 

[Gloor]

1) thats normal and I've seen it in many laptops.

2) not sure about that - it depends on the sound and i know sound is hard to describe

 

[DHagan4755]

1) thats normal and I've seen it in many laptops.

2) not sure about that - it depends on the sound and i know sound is hard to describe

1.) I've used many many many Apple laptops and this is the first time I have seen something quote so vibrational and loud.

2.) The sound is sort of like the initial tone you here when connecting on dial-up, possibly higher in pitch, and happens on occasions...enough to make you "hmmmm"

 

[James Cole]

No both of mines dont vibrate... and the hardrive is pretty silent.. except when I run windowsss

 

[Fonzijr1964]

I have two peculiar problems with my new unibody 17" MacBook Pro...

1.) My optical drive vibrates and is loud with certain media to the point where I am using the machine at the same time my hands feel like I just used a lawn mower. And it is 2 for 4 burning discs of different types (DVDs / CDs). It comes back with burning errors.

2.) From time to time, my hard drive makes a high pitch sound for about 20-30 seconds and fades. The drive comes back as OK in tests and works OK...but it is concerning.

Anyone else had these problems with theirs?

P.S. I am noticing my screen flickering at low brightness too. This is something that just seems to have started.

1) thats normal even my imac gets into a hard spin every now and then especially with late 80/ early 90's CD's lol

2) not normal
and get the screen checked out