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Coolkie

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Aug 17, 2024
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M2 Macbook Air are not quiet as they advertised. They're making extremely loud noise while starting up, opening apps, previewing images. It's around 50~60db and between 13k~18k hetz. Average person hearing range are between 20~18kHz which means this noise is human audiable. I have been to Apple Genius Bar multiple times and reached out Apple Techinical Support for 4 month. First time they said they couldn't hear the noise and reset my system. Then I recorded video and amplify the noise. And they said this Macbook Air passed all the test. Saying they don't know how to fix it. Telling me this is a expected noise would coming from a computer. But they still suggest me to reach Apple Techinical Support. I spent few months back and forth. They finally request a repair to Genius Bar. And they replaced my motherboard. But issue does not fixed. I don't think this noise does coming from other modules. Because the noise is coming from the top left corner of keyboard. Which is the position of motherboard. So they either replaced a faulty motherboard or M2 Macbook Air are all faulty. I'm not sure does M3 Macbook making this noise. But I can be sure that M1 Macbook Air does not. You should prevent all M2 Macbook

Also the replaced motherboard making even louder noise. Before I could only hear this noise while playing with LLM model or previewing images. Now it's making noise even I am doing nothing. And it's so loud that I can hear it meters away. And they're telling me this was the last time I could replace motherboard. Is this true? I cannot live with this noise.

 

seek3r

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Is this some type of joke? Where would the noise be coming from? Are you hearing the WiFi signals or something?
could be an electric wine, hard to tell from the video. The op prob needs another replacement, maybe a PSU issue and not the rest of the motherboard, or maybe the display electronics, etc, it shouldnt do that
 

Coolkie

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Aug 17, 2024
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could be an electric wine, hard to tell from the video. The op prob needs another replacement, maybe a PSU issue and not the rest of the motherboard, or maybe the display electronics, etc, it shouldnt do that
Yeah. It sounds like electric whine. I still think it has something to do with motherboard. Because the noise become louder after I replaced motherboard. It's a little bit quiet next day. I guess it was doing some update or optimizing when I got it. But it's way louder than my previous motherboard. But I don't think I could get another replacement anymore.
 
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