What does a whining MacBook Pro sound like?

The main problem is that the MBP is just so darn quiet that you can normally here a pin drop at 10 yards... Mine does make the whine - I think it sounds more like a high pitched whistle - only when on the battery and it is stopped by runnning Photo Booth. Not a major problem and hardly deserving of all the fuss.

On the temperature issue, things are even better after the Firmware upgrade..running about 8 progs I run at 18C and it rarely gets above 40C.

The best laptop ever made (and yes it is fine to use on your lap).

Am I the only person who couldn't hear anything in those recordings except the pretentious voice of the narrator?

Other products to whine. I had a Newton MP2100 that had a buzzing whine that was hard to put up with in a quiet room, but unnoticeable at any other time.

I have to admit this is the one issue that might keep me from punching in my credit card number as soon as the MacBook Jnr is announced (maybe tomorrow?).

Buying sight unseen is a danger given Apple's track record of releasing flawed laptops. Back in the day, I had a iBook G3 700MHz with the bad logic board that needed 3 repairs before it was okay.

On the other hand, my PowerBook G4 12" from 16 months ago was absolute perfection. No complaints whatsoever and a very aesthetically pleasing design, which I only sold because I want a laptop with the Intel chip.

So, buy immediately and take a "Rev A risk" or wait a few weeks to see the mood in the forums? It's a hard call, given the hit & miss nature of Apple's quality control these days.

My MBP has a whine occasionally, but it's not as common as it once was. Still, it doesn't bother me at all. Of course, I always have the TV or the stereo on. I rarely ever use my computer in complete silence.

Just to let you know.. I'm thinking it's in the optimization of the Intel chipset. Mine has the whine under battery in OSX. Under WinXP, no such luck.. purrs like a kitten.

This is the "whine" that everybody complains about? Dear god. My AlBook 1g made that noise like clockwork within certain programs (Dreamweaver for one). Apparently it's not the cpu at all if I heard this on my G4, and probably more related to graphics or something within the system acting badly, but it did exactly what they complain about and goes away with increased cpu usage. This was confirmed by others I talked to who had the same machines of the era, but a giant fuss wasn't made about it. While annoying if I was actually paying attention to it, it wasn't a deal breaker. Just have some music in the background to drown it out.

I also have the whine listed above but oddly enough it turns off simply by having bluetooth on. When I turn bluetooth off, the whine starts. When I turn bluetooth back on, the whine is gone. And so it goes and has gone. Since I have bluetooth on most of the time, since I rarely need more then 3 hours of battery at a time - it hasn't bothered me too much. But when I am trying to conserve battery life, time for some noise reduction headphones and artificial silence sadly. It's not bad in anything but silence for me, so if there's other noise such as found in class and most public places, no lost. Only would be bad if I was on a red-eye flight with people around me sleeping, but then again the monitor brightness and my typing would be more annoying I'm sure. Also, the processor whine isn't as bad a the monitor whine - at least for me, but I've heard that the monitor whine could and should be fixed with a future firmware update so I'm still waiting so I don't have to send my MBP in and wait 10-15 days to get it back. With school, I won't be able to realistically part with my laptop for that long until mid-summer.

P.S. has anyone else only had the processor whine when having bluetooth off, but it stops when bluetooth is on? It'll also stop if I turn do something that uses the iSight of course. But mine is easily controlled by bluetooth, which isn't too bad - although bluetooth is a battery hog and the MBP's battery isn't a stellar 4.5 hours as they claim, although I can get about 4 hours with no airport or bluetooth lowest screen brightness, 3.5 hours with only airport and lowest screen brightness, and 3 hours with low screen brightness and airport and bluetooth both on. Full brightness, everything on only yields about 2.5 hours though. There's my personal experience with a 15" 2.16 CD 7200 HD MBP.

Ryan, it's possible something like that could happen, but a settlement would probably be the result, and then we might all be able to purchase the whining noise through the iTunes store.

When I took my MBP in because of the heat and noise, the guy at the Genius bar told me they have a recording of the whine so they know what to listen for. Just a thought.