“There seem to be quite a few owners of the new laptop with complaints over a high pitched noise emanating from their machines. Our own Dan Pourhadi had a whine on his new MacBook Pro, even though it may not be the whine being heavily discussed on Digg today. Dan seems to have solved his whine by disabling the second core of his processor (described in Update 3 on his post),” Fabienne Serriere writes for TUAW. “Some Apple users on the Digg thread and the Apple Discussions thread seem to think this may be repairable in firmware by Apple at a later date.”
“I am by no means dissing Apple (or the Digg crowd) with this post, but simply would like to remind everyone about early adopter syndrome. The first revision of a new hardware platform or change in manufacturing is bound to engender certain flaws or bugs,” Serriere writes. “This current flare in comments on Digg and the Apple Forums doesn’t mean that all MacBook Pros will be affected by this noise, and certainly does not mean that people shouldn’t be entitled to a worry-free machine when purchasing a Mac… This current flare in comments on Digg and the Apple Forums doesn’t mean that all MacBook Pros will be affected by this noise, and certainly does not mean that people shouldn’t be entitled to a worry-free machine when purchasing a Mac.”
MacInTouch, as usual, is an excellent resource and has some reader experiences here.
MacDailyNews Take: Read the users’ comments on MacInTouch with the knowledge that many of them are writing while upset; some aren’t upset at all as their MacBook Pro units are working perfectly. Yes, it would be nice if everything was perfect, but that’s rarely, if ever, the case with a whole new model of anything, especially something as complex as a computer. Obviously, if you’ve just sunk a wad of cash into a new MacBook Pro, you would be upset if it wasn’t perfect. If it started emanating a high-pitched whine, well, that would send anybody over the top. Apple will hopefully be able to fix this with a firmware update as soon as possible. Surely, the company is aware of the issue and working on a solution as you read this.
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I can’t speak to any possible MacBook Pro issues since I don’t own one, but my Rev. A iMac Core Duo has worked perfectly from day one with no issues whatsoever. So the “Revision A” stereotype isn’t always true.
My Core Duo iMac has the loudest SuperDrive I have ever heard in my life. When it boots or Spotlight is activated it spins up very fast. I’m sure it’s some software bug that will be corrected down the line. Otherwise I’m good and pleased with the Core Duo.
That’s why I didn’t want to risk buying the first gen. I’m excited about the later models, though.
Are we sure the high pitch whine isn’t Mr. Gates reaction to the sales figures?
I love my MacBook Pro. No whine though super drive seems to spin up more than necessary, beautiful display, very fast (compared to my 600Mhz G3 iBook.
My PowerBook G4 is awesome. My best friend, it goes everywhere with me, still looks like new and is fast enough for my needs.
Alright alright, I’d kill for a MacBook, but I can wait
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That whine that you hear is actually coming from Baldy Balmer in Redmond, WA
Ray –
You beat me to the punch. Though I was going to suggest that the noise might be the Mac zealots being oscillated back and forth between the annoying whine of disappointment (HiFi) and the annoying whine of rumormongering (April 1st coming up).
Yours is good, too.
My 12″ AlBook would whine when I ran a specific app. I can’t remember which app it was, but it had nothing to do with the audio subsystem. So this sort of thing is not that particularly unique to the MacBook Pro. I’d be interested to know how a CPU chip could be made to make this sort of whine…
My display brightness causes buzzes near F11 and at the left speaker there is usally a hiss, eeee or bzzz noise 🙁
Other than that the MBP totally rules!
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Pioneers dodging arrows.
“High-pitched whine reported by some MacBook Pro users”: It’s the sound of their Windows-using friends when they see the machine in use.
Anyone who would buy a first generation Intel Mac is stupid. Wait until software is ready. You can’t take advantage of the increased speed until then, anyway. Wait until Apple gets it right. The next generation won’t cost anymore, and will be faster and better.
I am glad my old trusty 1 GHz G4 powerbook is a quiet as a mouse on socks. And it remains quite cool too (what I can’t say about the DELL I have to use at work).
Get this: My 2.0GHz is going to Apple for repair soon:
1. white spots on display
2. high pitched whine
3. DVDs play with crazy artifacts and I think it even scratched one of my brand new DVD movies.
4. acts weird when suspending (doesn’t stop making sound for a couple of minutes after lid-close)
5. constant, slow thobbing sound (from DVD drive?)
Slightly disappointed,
Mike
Amnesty: “Anyone who would buy a first generation Intel Mac is stupid.”
Or generous. They get to work out the bleeding edge technology problems for the rest of us.
This is exactly why you don’t buy the first version of anything… how many of you people found that out the hard way with OS 7.x.0?
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Glad to see the guys in the Department of Redundancy Department were on the job again with the article quotes.
It’s kind of hard for me to view this MacBook Pro model as anything but an interim machine. The processor is low-end. In the fall, the real high-end 64-bit Intel notebook processors will debut.
See, MDN apparently is not stuck in the RDF, or wearing rose colored glasses when reporting on our favorite company’s stuff. Love this site, what happened with the ad experiment this weekend? At least it motivated me try the RSS feed, now a big fan, safari shows anything new right in the bookmark bar.
High-Pitched whine?
It’s to be expected, because that’s the sound of OS X screeching, “EEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!! INTEL?”
MDN editor, you talk too much! Just shut the fuck up once in awhile and let the readers check out Macintouch, etc., before blowing off your useless Mac pumping bullshit.
A high pitched whine, geeesss Apple have employed my wife!
Only joking, my wife is an Angel. I hope they pay her more than $1 a year!
Leo
A high-pitched whine is all I hear recently about the Intel transition…
(Yes, MDN, I’m talking to you)
APPLE NEVER OFFICIALLY RESPONDED TO THE DREADFULLY WIDESPREAD HORIZONTAL WHITE LINE PROBLEM ON THE LAST POWERBOOK’S DISPLAY. No recall, no firmware update. If they thought we could live with such a horribly distracting visual defect, then they’ll probably believe that MacBook Pro users can live with the occasional high-pitched whine.
I highly doubt a firmware update will be coming, nor a recall.
The whine is disturbing enough to make you not want to use the your new MacBook.
The screen brigthness comes set at highest level. Turn it down a little and it goes away.
There may be other reasons but that solved my whine and now I am just lovin this fast beauty
They are all haunted by the ghost of Bob Noyce. Geraldo is going to crack one open on live TV to see if there’s a secret chamber inside.
i suspect the whine is Bill Gates.
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It’s kind of hard for me to view this MacBook Pro model as anything but an interim machine. The processor is low-end. In the fall, the real high-end 64-bit Intel notebook processors will debut.
UH-HUH. WITH 5 MINUTE BATTERY LIFE, A $5,000 PRICE TAG AND A BACKPACK TO CARRY THE COOLING FAN..
ROTFLMAO
Apple should have stuck to PowerPC.
My iMac G5 (PowerPC) runs perfectly.
Mike,
I sympathize. When you pay $2000.00 + for a new notebook it should not have all the problems you are experienceing. PERIOD. It knocks the wind out of your sails.
People who say, “Well, that’s what you get for buying REV A of anything” does not help with your problem either.
As for the post above stating that if he turns the brightness down on his screen then the whine goes away – he shouldn’t have to do that! it’s a $2000.00 notebook and you have every right to expect to use all features to their fullest (i.e. FULL brightness on your monitor).
For those who have the whine problem with their new MacBook Pro’s, I suggest giving a very close listen to the power supply. A LOT of notebooks (even from other manufacturers) seem to do the same. Now, if it still does it on battery power, then I am leaning towards a display problem (frequency or RFI possibly?). I’m not sure. But I do know that power supplies do make a high-pitched whine on other manufactuers notebooks as well. I have personally experienced this with a Win notebook and it was quite loud.
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