18 Mar
2007
18 Mar
'07
12:26 a.m.
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... 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? 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