The fan noise is starting to annoy me. In a quiet room with light usage I can hear the fans and its distracting. Please don't compare it to a 17" Dell etc. I'm used to dead silence from my old 17".
In fact, I still have the old one and powered it up to see if I could hear a difference. The fans on the unibody have a higher pitched sound. I checked fan speeds and both the fans in the 1st Gen run between 998 and 1002. With the same usage the unibodies fans are between 1975 and 2075.
Why the increase in revs? May seem like a small thing but its really make or break for me. I cannot stand noise, especially in a quiet room.
I'm also hearing a high pitched whine (granted its when my ear is 3 inches away). Wondering if its also the fan or that dreaded logic board whine the Y1 MBPs used to have!
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My fans run at that speed too. They don't really bother me; in fact, I couldn't even tell they were on and I was worried that they weren't. I have to put my ear about two inches away from the hinge to hear anything.
I will say that the superdrive is the noisiest part of the unit. It also vibrates/shakes the whole computer when it is spinning up. I don't know why, but it also freezes while I am watching a DVD and it says "Waking DVD drive" several times throughout the movie. Never really had that happen on any other computer.
Overall I am really happy with the computer, but customer service has been absolutely wretched.