Macbook Pro Issue Update (batteries, heat, whine)...

[TBi]

I just got my MBP 15.4" today. I have not heard the whine and I've been on it for hours. It sure does heat up my lap. My iBook would get warm but not like this. I got a temp stat widget and the highest temp I've seen it display is 40 C or 104 F is that still warm for a notebook. My legs are red when I get up. Ick. My parents got me this to upgrade my iBook for my freshman year in college so I won't have it on my lao in class but it sure does suck when I'm at home. Any suggestions?

Remember that unless you have the speedit kext loaded then what you are seeing is the hard drive temperature (front left of laptop) and not the CPU itself.

 

[Tommy85]

Appalling MacBook Pro 15"

Are the intel chips really as good as they are made out to be? I purchased a MacBook Pro 2GHz 15" under two weeks ago. The first time I booted it up it seemed pretty good, I had a little play with a few things, then went to shut it down; oh no it crashed!! all I wanted to do was shut it down. The next time I used it I decided I would connect my Firewire HD to transfer some files; oh no it crashed!! BEACH BALL OF DEATH!! By now I was pretty annoyed but I still hadn't even install applications such as Logic (yay! I had to pay even more just so it could work on an intel mac). So I opened up finder to start to search through my Hard Drive; oh F@*$ it crashed for the 3rd time in 3 day before I had a chance to even work on it. This still didn't phase me, I still believed it was a good computer and had faith in Apple. I ran utilities etc. It started to work a bit better. I finally installed all of my music software. My Alesis Audio interface would not work with it, and they said it is unlikely it will in the near future, great!So I tried my Emagic interface - that wouldn't work either - even better! Then I tried to use my Waves plug-ins noooo! they didn't work either.
With these problems I decided to connect to the internet to try to get some up dates; but I couldn't even get the MacBook to install the drivers for the modem, so I couldn't even get online. This was the last straw, I had to take it back to the Apple store.

The only use I made out of it was taking some funny pictures and it was good to boast about it to some friends. oooooo and it looks nice.

 

[aristobrat]

Are the intel chips really as good as they are made out to be?

Sounds like you got a lemon. Even before Intel chips, there have been occasional posts of new user with systems that just bombed no matter what people did.

The most common MacBook Pro problems are heat and weird sounds. Extremely few posts about OS X reliability/performance on Intel.