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Apple Faces Up to the MacBook Whining
Whiney Mac Fanboy writes "The Register is reporting that Apple has finally admitted to the 'high pitched whining' problems with it's MacBook line — but only to tell customers to contact AppleCare. From the article: 'MacBook Pro users have complained about numerous noises emanating from their machines since the Intel-based notebooks began shipping in February this year. Audible irritations reported by machine owners include whining sounds coming from the screen, from the body of the notebook, and from the area below the screen hinge when the laptop's running on batteries and both cores of the Core Duo CPU are enabled.'"
Software is a lot more quiet than hardware. That's why most of users hear Apple's sounds, but sounds made by M$'s software is only heard by people that use a computer for more than just writing a word document and printing it.
LMAO... you can't even be serious... oh maybe you cry at night because you can't have a Mac... or a women... damn dude you're whinier than the Whiney Mac Fanboy...
I think is this fairly overblown though. There isn't a Slashdot story every time a Lenovo or Dell has some small problem. There are plenty of said problems.
1. Mac users are generally more anal about this sort of thing and make noise about it.
2. Macs are quite simply a big topic right now. An issue like this would have never graced the pages of Slashdot pre-OS X.
3. First gen EVERYTHING is problematic. As much as I wanted a 2005 Mustang, no way. New body styles of the first year are just not my thing.
What you point out, about not being able to buy older generation equipment for reliability's sake, is a good point. Though Apple usually has a couple of every model in their refurb section (it's not the same as buying a new one though).
I like Macs and I like Apple. The problem I see whenever I read these articles though is that there are people who live under the myth that Apple is perfect. They're not. Right now they're also under tremendous scrutiny because of their current surge in popularity and the Intel switch. I think this whole zone is going to be a pretty big hump of issues, but it'll pass. (Incidentally, I'm waiting for the next gen MBPs before I buy.) They quality control at least as good as anyone else, but shit happens. The yellowing cases and the battery issues, if I remember correctly, were manufacturer's issues anyway. You can fix something like that during testing.