Suggestion to Noise from MBP

[Moshiiii]

To those who are keeping their MBP and just dealing with the whine I got a suggestion.

I've got extra room on where a tower is suppose to go on my desk, so I was brainstorming to what I could place here and I got a thought. A small waterfountian/waterfall, I had one of these awhile ago and just the quiet noise of water running will cover up you're mac whine. Just a lil suggestion

 

[dylans]

I installed MagicNoiseKiller, then went to my "Account" tab in Preferences, and added it to an item to launch on login. It launches in the background, and I never have to hear the whine !

Here it is:
http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/downloads/MagicNoiseKiller.zip

 

[Moshiiii]

w00t! No noise for me too!

 

[dylans]

w00t! No noise for me too!

Sweet ! Everybody with the first Rev's of MBP's should have this.

Actually, Apple should just fix their sh*t !!

 

[excalibur313]

Word on the street is that it cuts 30 minutes off your battery when unplugged.

 

[thegreatluke]

Wait... in the readme it says the app quits immediately after opening.

Also, when I opened it it immediately closed (well, it might have not, it's just it's not in the dock anymore).

So if nothing's running, how can it take off battery life?

 

[Moshiiii]

Thats a damn good question! Also the first Time i used it it worked, now it does nothing.

 

[eVolcre]

Thats a damn good question! Also the first Time i used it it worked, now it does nothing.

Did you remember to put it into your startup items folder?

 

[AJ Muni]

I think that if you upgrade to 10.4.6 it wont work anymore..

 

[eVolcre]

I think that if you upgrade to 10.4.6 it wont work anymore..

Can't you reinstall from the restore discs and go back to the old version?

 

[esaleris]

Exactly how loud is this whine? I have a ThinkPad and they were notorious for a buzzing sound when the battery was low and you plugged it back in - but not worth staying on the line with Apple for 30 minutes for.

Do you have to be on battery for this to happen? If you had a fan - a little floorstanding one 5 feet away, could you hear the whine anymore? It'd have to be either a) pretty loud b) pretty high-pitched, to be worth complaining about...

So is it one of those?

 

[thecheda]

whine

I dont think that some consumers don't really understand the scope of this "whine" that us macbook users are complaining about. It does get annoying after a while. You may not notice in a room with other sources of sound (like the APPLE STORE where the HiFi is turned up full blast ), but thats besides the point. We need a CURE!

 

[dylans]

Exactly how loud is this whine? I have a ThinkPad and they were notorious for a buzzing sound when the battery was low and you plugged it back in - but not worth staying on the line with Apple for 30 minutes for.

Do you have to be on battery for this to happen? If you had a fan - a little floorstanding one 5 feet away, could you hear the whine anymore? It'd have to be either a) pretty loud b) pretty high-pitched, to be worth complaining about...

So is it one of those?

Esaleris ! AHA ! You know the sound. My computer before the MBP was a Thinkpad, and it did the whining noise "regardless" of the battery level, or if it was plugged in or not.

Sooo, with that said, check this out. I compared my Thinkpad sound to the MBP sound, MBP was louder (by just a bit).

Now, when you actually "solve" the problem, and here the difference of a whiny computer and a silent computer, you realize how utterly annoying the whine is.

Craziness.