Nervetree

If you know me you know I use a Macbook pro as my main computer. At home I plug this into a 30” monitor. At work, whatever is available. I always get the extended warranty, but usually debate whether I should or not. The last 3 laptops I have had have been replaced under warranty.

A few weeks ago the cooling fan on my gen 1 macbook pro started making noise, the playing card in spokes type of noise. I installed iStat pro widget to monitor the fan speed. About two weeks ago the noise went away. I checked the iStat and found the fan had died. Went to the apple store, to have them replace the fan. The tech there ran some scripts ( while true; do true; done; ( twice) ) to heat up the computer so the fans would turn on. I had iStat running but the temp was in Celsius. I started getting nervous when it went above 100 and said something at 130, he thought it was in Farenheight, then confirmed that the fan was toast. About a week later, I got a call from Apple, they couldn’t fix the problem, and were giving me a new laptop. Sweet. It’s a 2.4 ghz 15” macbook pro, The ironic thing is I was planning on getting a new one pretty soon. After a few days of reloading software, setting up servers and general moving in. I am getting to like the new machine alot. Apple was really cool with honoring their warranty.

The only gripe about it is headphone audio out line noise. There is a intermittent noise of 4 distinct really high pitched sounds and an omnipresent high pitched static. I can only hear them with my Shure e5c sound isolating canalphones, they are much more efficient than large cans so the quiet high pitched sound is really obvious. This is a known bug and most likely hardware. so I soldered a new 1/8th plug on my old trusty Sony mdr v6’s and am happy with the sound.