Apple has quietly updating MacBook Pro units to address issues such as AirPort not automatically rejoining a preferred network, Airport range randomly dropping, LCD backlight flickers at lowest brightness setting, and heat issues.
“According to Apple, it has begun replacing the mainboard inside its MacBook Pros with a new revision. It calls the udpated product “revision D”, which is identifiable by product serial number: Serial numbers starting with W8611: revision D, Serial numbers starting with W8610: revision C,” Tuan Nguyen reports for DailyTech. “Apple said that revision D MacBook Pros have many issues addressed and improvements made, including fixes to the above mentioned issues. We were also able to get a hold of a MacBook Pro that just arrived during the week with a serial number starting with W8612, which did not exhibit any of the above issues.”
Nguyen reports, “Many users are also reporting that their MacBook Pros become extremely hot to handle, especially in the area above the F keys and underneath the notebook itself. In fact, my MacBook Pro gets so hot that placing it in your hands is almost unbearable, and leaving it on a bare lap is next to impossible. According to Apple, the MacBook Pro should never become hot to the point of being uncomfortable. The representative I spoke to said ‘that should not happen. If it is, bring back your MacBook Pro and we’ll give you an updated version.'”
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Hey, uhhh, my 61″ widescreen, HDMI-capable, HD television gets, ummm, really . . . no, I mean REALLY hot when I touch it to, umm, you know, wipe dust off the screen. Yaah. Yaah, that’s it. My big screen super-duper $4000 state-of-the-art television gets so hot it nearly BURNS me.
Can I get a new one?
First post – me ? All new kit has teething problems/ Why should Apple be diiferent in that respect. What you can be sure of is that problems WILL be sorted and quickly. I’m waiting for a 17″ with quad cores.
It doesn’t mention if the CPU whine issue is fixed by this “Rev. D” logic board. That is the one problem I would like to see fixed.
first to post
Quad cores? You’re gonna be waiting a long while…
How about the “user whine” issue? Do these fixes take care of that?
My G4 Ti-book can heat a small warehouse space when doing anything with video. I wonder if there’s a problem there?
my12″ G4 1.5 can not be operated with 200 miles of the polar cap.
It has literatly heat bleached the top of my Dockers, no telling what is had done the the jewels
i have an 8612 xxx and have encountered this high whine or whirr only when doing migration or copying very very large files. otherwise, it’s quiet as a mouse, no flicker, no sudden drops of airport, and no sudden shutdowns.
dick (1st poster) – you really are a dick – do you need to put your penis envey sized tv on your lap?
Life on the bleeding edge… for some fools, but not for me
my son’s 12″ powerbook heats up like it’s an extra heater for the house. I told him it was a bonus for his dorm room.
MDN headline: “Apple has been quietly refining MacBook Pro since release”
LOL – “refining” LOL
In non-MDN speak “refining” means “fixing problems with defective computers”.
I thought these Intel chips were supposed to be so cool that´s why Apple switched from IBM chips????
Teflon
This fool found the powerbook to be barely useable, as in sloooooow, but the MBP has caught up with the rest of the industry. A couple of minor glitches is worth the trade-off for a real desktop replacement. I was able to sell my dual G5 powermac and use the MBP instead.
Surely Apple would not go around fixin’ things they never acknowledged were broken.
No, they would not do that.
Hey “andy” — if that’s your “real” name — you’re a moron.
The joke was about the product, you dipshit.
Oh, and “envy” has only one “e”, assclown.
And “Andy” is a proper name, so it should be capitalized. Well . . .
. . . maybe not in your case.
“Apple has been quietly refining MacBook Pro since release”
Refinement prior to release is good. But thats cool, after all if Stevie does it, it must be good.
Reason #6,387 why Macs are not found in large corporations. Ad-hoc assembly line changes for business PCs during the production cycle is a no-no.
I called Apple about my MacBook Pro’s buzzing noise (related to the screen brightness), and a battery issue (aluminum face is starting to peel away from the batter case). I also mentioned that my MacBook Pro gets so hot it’s uncomfortable to touch the bottom (near the back) for more than a couple of seconds.
They told me to take it to an authorized service centre and get it repaired. They would not issue a replacement. So if they were doing it, it appears they no longer are, or are being selective.
Apple Store is has ordered a replacement rev D motherboard and power inverter to fix the buzzing sound, as well as a new battery. I’ll be happy, as long as it gets fixed, although a replacement unit would have been sweet…
P.S. I am not affiliated with the other “andy”.
“Ad-hoc assembly line changes for business PCs during the production cycle is a no-no.”
So maybe you would like to explain how Dell, the world’s worst offenders for making changes get away with it.
Are new apple products coming out soon? i have been wanting to get a new cell phone but if iPhone is coming out soon i’d like to wait some more.
“Reason #6,387 why Macs are not found in large corporations. Ad-hoc assembly line changes for business PCs during the production cycle is a no-no.”
You stupid tool. Maybe that’s why every HP/Compaq model we have has 4-6 motherboard part numbers for the DIFFERENT boards?
You effin’ PC wanker.
I thought these Intel chips were supposed to be so cool that´s why Apple switched from IBM chips????
They give better performance per watt, but much more performance. Therefore, more watts, which equals more heat.
what i don’t understand is that if apple is fixing things with the revision D, what about those with revision C? i’m sure apple isn’t going to replace every revision c with a d. just curious.
FIRST POST! EAT IT BITCHES!! YOU WISH YOU WERE ME RIGHT NOW!!
They give better performance per watt, but much more performance.
What does “performance per watt” mean, exactly? How do they quantify “performance” in this mythical ratio? Floating point performance? Integer performance? OpenGL performance? What the fuck does “performance per watt” even measure?
Don’t you tools realize “performance per watt” is a marketing slogan, not a scientific measurement of anything?
What the big deal with making minor improvements to a product, especially when issues have appeared in the field?
Are you seriously telling that when Dell find a part is not working to spec that they release a new version?
All products evolve – especially in fast paced industries like the computer industry.
These are obviously not “refinements”. They are bug fixes.
If you want proof that there were tons of defective MacBook Pros, just check out Apple’s Refurb section of their online store. I’ve seen 1.83, 2.0 and even 2.16Ghz MacBook Pros on sale as refurbs lately.
That’s the upside of these bugs – you can get a 2.16Ghz MacBook Pro for $2399 instead of $2799 if you keep an eye on the refurb section!
@ Corporate Headquarters>
You are a no-nothing bozo.
The concept of Engineering Change Orders (ECOs) whilst a system is in production has been a part of computer development since the Year Dot, especially during the minicomputer era when the pace of change increased dramatically.
Also, when project managing the Windows 95-2K migration of a household name oil company, we discovered some Dell models that – whilst superficially similar – had three different variations of on-board NIC and two variations on on-board graphics. And the only reason for those changes were cost as opposed to product reliability.
However, as I suspect you’re just MacDude posting under another name, you’d have no knowledge of such things and will simply ignore yet another fact in your desperate campaign to discredit the Mac platform.
MacDailyNews merely passes along information it cannot verify. This article could be and probably is simply heresay.