The lesson I've learned in my year of Mac ownership is that Apple's quality is no better than any run-of-the-mill pc manufacturer. Google for "macbook pro fan noise," I dare you. I'm going back to PCs (Thinkpads are looking real good right now) after this overpriced piece bites the dust, which, at the rate it's going, will be soon.

mullingitover

I brought it home, and it started to do it again.
Called Apple. They sent a box.
A week later, I received the laptop with the list of fixed issues.
Logic board replaced.
Right side fan replaced.

I realize it should've been fine out of the box the first (if not the second) time, but at least they got it sorted for me without me spending any extra money or going through too much sending/receiving hassle.

That was about two months ago. Working fine now.

One star for Apple's Customer Service.

potatomato

Nick Bourbaki

bmg50barrett

VakeroRokero

nzruss

I could almost guarantee that this is the problem from an ultra mega super duper fabulous high powered fans used to cool those MBPs down from their triple digit temperatures. My north bridge fan used to do this same noise (tone was a bit different since it was in an open space, and probably a diff sized fan), but I would tell Apple to replace all the fans in there.

dale3h

alaskanwonder

njbrideau

sfokevin

uptown

sfokevin

How long before the largest fan recall in history of Apple?

iPhoneGroupie

nevyn

Fuzzystyle

adaminc

bagellord

...I'm sure anybody who's dealt with those holier-than-thou assholes working at your local Apple store will agree with you on that.

RiceBandit

Slab

brandon2084

It sounds to me like he needs some elbow grease!

Mischif

I believe it's your sense of humor that might be having the real issues =/

slackercow

musanti

Apparently they did fix it, it failed again.

As this guy did not scan the his domicile with the camera, we don't know if he lives in a dust bowl, or has a cat/dog/bird with dander problems. Fans can be fail due to environmental issues . . .

mjsmitho

SharpieFiend

Baaaaaa

Liam

Did you perhaps install Boot Camp and Windows on your machine? That would explain the sound of caged demons... "It's too nice in here, I can't even crash the place, somebody open some Windows, I'm gonna throw up!"

kerryspyder

So the MacBook's speakers are having problems now, too?

Eric

What it sounds like to me is something is ontop of the fan stopping it from moving efficently, on my Chipset fan, a piece of the metal got bent down and it made a noise very simular to it.

Wildarms7000

Or not.

The particular weirdness of this one is probably a combination of bad fan bearings (Apple may have removed one fan that had bearings that lasted 12 hours and replaced it with a brand new one that also has 12-hour bearings...) and the laptop's fan speed control - the computer's trying to turn the fan speed up and down, and the fan stops completely when it's turned down.

It's probably not worth trying to fix it yourself. To do that, you either have to swap in your own replacement fan, or try oiling the bearings of the existing one - if you want to try that, the #1 Google hit for "fan maintenance" has instructions.

(Wow, that dude really knows his stuff. And he's devilishly attractive, too!)

But given that the fan's buried inside the laptop, and also given that a small fan that's been making a bad noise for a while has probably chewed its bearings up pretty well, it's unlikely to be worth the effort unless you're used to wrangling laptops and can lay your hands on a replacement.

If the owner keeps returning the laptop, I'm sure Apple are eventually going to come up with a non-crap replacement fan :-).

Daniel Rutter

heartattackcity

(btw, by the GODS the sound my machine made when I ran Parallels before they got the CPU usage down! I swear, I'm sure it could be heard three floors up. Such a relief when it was fixed.)

These things happen and aren't really anything Apple *could've* done something about before that noise started, short of replacing every component in the machine in case it was going bad . . . What the hell is up with people posting videos of every single problem they have with their new macs nowadays?

Itabor: I changed my fan on my own, and it's not trivial business... Takes about an hour, and that if you're used to messing inside powerbooks/macbook pros.

nevyn

Socrates

Iggy

ugadawg

ivanoski

ivanoski

AqueousBeef

Nah, that's a fuel filter if I've ever heard one. It's gummin' up yer carb.

Autonomous2323

Ryanraven

gtrunner

Katanan

ltabor

nycbjr2

nycbjr2

musanti

minimtl

TheDoomer

agrajag42

(BTW, Marvin, "mac's suck" has an incorrectly used apostrophe)

liquidsoapdispenser

starbrox

origamimavin

ACD

I wonder if he shakes the laptop or puts it up-side-down if the noise changes; if so the fan is probably out of place and hitting something it shouldn't be!

beloved.openhand

Snicker