> > allow purchases with an unconditional 30-day return policy; my > suggestion is > > use this as an opportunity to make an informed decision). > > > > Maybe you can explain what you meant here a bit more? > > The don't listen to individual experiences, seems to contradict the do > your own research? > > Plus IMO the individual experiences are going to be the majority of > research one can do on a product after it has been out for a while, and > while I believe they must all be taken with a grain of salt(Yours and > Mine both included) you can find trends in things, for example... See my last sentence in my paragraph. Namely, get an eval for 30 days, road-test it and then make your own decision. > > 1) I can't keep it on my lap since it is scalding hot as soon as the > laptop > > reaches its operating temperature. Heck, at times I cannot even keep my > > wrist on the computer as the left side gets uncomfortably warm. FWIW, I > also > > run a fan applet at all times which keeps fan running at constant speeds > of > > 2000+ RPM. Let's just say this does not help much. > > 2) There is a CPU whine which according to some reports can pollute > > recording even if it is only recording internal "silence" (no mic > internal > > or external). > > Those are both easily verified by individuals reporting their > experiences. But also as a side question for you personally, apple > released a firmware upgrade that addressed I believe it was the heat, > but may have been the whine, I can't remember which right now. Did you > ever apply that? All the latest bells'n'whistles here and no change. I upgraded to 10.4.9 the other day which also elegantly broke Max/MSP, after which I had to do combo reinstall of 10.4.9. 300MB later I think I have everything up and running again. Since I have automatic updates enabled at all times, I get all the latest goodies (including those which tend to hose my system ;-)... > As a side question, does ANYONE on this list happen to know how well the > Airports in the MB and MBP work with linux? Do they run off the reverse > engineered Broadcom driver that runs the airports on the PB and iBook? My MBP wireless ran ok in Linux while I test-drove Ubuntu on it (unlike OSX it does not lose connectivity for no reason with non-Airport access points--granted this has been mostly fixed by the latest 10.4.9 OSX update). Come to think of it, I had built a nice version of the backlit keyboard daemon which would dynamically adjust the backlight by reading light conditions, and it would do so with a nice fading action, but now I wonder whether I wiped that stuff off before I got to back it up... DOH! But I digress... Regarding the wireless, I unfortunately can't remember for sure if it was native or not. IIRC it was atheros chipset driver (FWIW, I am not running Linux on it any more due to inherent EFI problems with having more than 4 partitions on the drive which makes installing Linux next to OSX and Bootcamp kludge-like triple-booting solution--I'd wipe the MBP clean but I need OSX+Bootcamp for my teaching; hence I resorted to a dedicated Linux notebook, rather than the triple-booting inferno). Best wishes, Ico
