Good summary, except the driver replacement does not work for me either. New bootcamp update? - till whine.
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Ok... I can now definately advise against working with MPB on bootcamp. I now have this MBP for about two months (95% on XP Pro) and there's something seriously wrong with the drivers.
nvidia driver is slow, whines, no lcd shutdown on lid close and - I don't know where this comes from - I have 'blue screens of death' at least about once a week. I suspect network activity on this. (needless to say I have just experienced one again and it PISSES ME OFF hence this message)
And Apple doesn't do anything except spamming me with emails on their 'great new apple extras' - Turds.
..sh*t... I have thrown away way too much money buying this thing. I should have hacked a PC in running OSX... I could have bought two very decent laptops for the same amount of money and REALLY run XP and OSX in parallels...
nvidia driver is slow, whines, no lcd shutdown on lid close and - I don't know where this comes from - I have 'blue screens of death' at least about once a week. I suspect network activity on this. (needless to say I have just experienced one again and it PISSES ME OFF hence this message)
And Apple doesn't do anything except spamming me with emails on their 'great new apple extras' - Turds.
..sh*t... I have thrown away way too much money buying this thing. I should have hacked a PC in running OSX... I could have bought two very decent laptops for the same amount of money and REALLY run XP and OSX in parallels...
Straight up I hear you. In all honesty, I think we know in terms of hardware that the Apple machines are far and away superior. I am still a heavy PC user and my desktop PC is running Vista (Although thinking about installing Hackintosh OSX this weekend).
I was *VERY* unimpressed when I came across a dell booth at the mall the other day. I played with their flagship XPS 17 inch and ALSO their new Alienware design and to be honest I was totally disgusted at the build quality. They are made of cheap feeling, creaky, bendy plastic shells. I mean it absolutely screams ghetto quality if you ask me. The trackpad doesn't seem to track anywhere near as good either. If you haven't seen these machines, check into it for yourself, but don't be surprised if you throw up in your mouth.
Anyway sorry to derail topic. In general it is poor that this issue persists and apple has not responded yet. My need/want to run vista has gone down but had it stayed the same/increased I would be banging my head against the wall by now. This is quite clearly a software problem and it should be fixable, why have they abandoned us? I think its time for me to call them again.
I was *VERY* unimpressed when I came across a dell booth at the mall the other day. I played with their flagship XPS 17 inch and ALSO their new Alienware design and to be honest I was totally disgusted at the build quality. They are made of cheap feeling, creaky, bendy plastic shells. I mean it absolutely screams ghetto quality if you ask me. The trackpad doesn't seem to track anywhere near as good either. If you haven't seen these machines, check into it for yourself, but don't be surprised if you throw up in your mouth.
Anyway sorry to derail topic. In general it is poor that this issue persists and apple has not responded yet. My need/want to run vista has gone down but had it stayed the same/increased I would be banging my head against the wall by now. This is quite clearly a software problem and it should be fixable, why have they abandoned us? I think its time for me to call them again.
I did'nt thought I would accept the 'solution' I found, but I bought a PC again to work on XP/Vista instead of bootcamp...
I was getting used to OSX though (can't part from the MBP) bought VMware Fusion to work on the occasional XP session but wasn't totally workable because USB support is not 100% and I needed programs which are solely on XP for developing purposes.
Got me a 17' Dell BlueRay combo with even faster CPU. No whining...
I was getting used to OSX though (can't part from the MBP) bought VMware Fusion to work on the occasional XP session but wasn't totally workable because USB support is not 100% and I needed programs which are solely on XP for developing purposes.
Got me a 17' Dell BlueRay combo with even faster CPU. No whining...
Just wanted to report that this is STILL a problem with the newest Snow Leopard-included BootCamp drivers under Windows 7 retail and Windows XP.
I'm using a 13.3" macbook unibody (not pro) made in March/April 2009.
It's pretty absurd that no one at Apple seems to care about this (probably easy to fix if you have the documented video driver source code) issue.
EDIT: my GPU is a GeForce 9400M
I'm using a 13.3" macbook unibody (not pro) made in March/April 2009.
It's pretty absurd that no one at Apple seems to care about this (probably easy to fix if you have the documented video driver source code) issue.
EDIT: my GPU is a GeForce 9400M
i am surprised this thread is being bumped, but more so that there is no remedy for this problem. I have a 2.5GHZ 15", and had WIN 7 on my computer, but never noticed any noise.
Since it is when Windows is running, wonder if it is a driver problem?
Since it is when Windows is running, wonder if it is a driver problem?
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