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Comment on MacBook Scratchy or Buzzing Noise by Samuel

Samuel — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 01:12:23 +0000

Had my MacBook since early ’09, never had this noise for almost two years. Now I finally finished putting in a new hard drive with a clean install of Windows 7. Noise started a day later, as described above. Mine sounds close to E R 4 5. Can’t be the hard drive, as that’s elsewhere. Seems to be the processor. Noise happens both on the Windows and Mac side. It’s like the screws are loose and something is bumping around in that area. Hope someone figures this out sometime. Gah.

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Comment on MacBook Scratchy or Buzzing Noise by Clare

Clare — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:47:39 +0000

Just like Paul, I have a 15″ MBP bought Spring 2008 which about a week ago, January 2011, developed this “trapped bug” sound that seems to emanate from under the upper left area of the keyboard.

The first time it happened, it was a constant, scary noise and so I restarted. Since then, the sound seems to just randomly start, then might disappear, but returns – and has occasional pauses, always regardless of what I’m doing. In other words, it’s inconsistent and I can’t figure out what it relates to as it seems independent of anything I do. Any ideas welcome!!

Comment on MacBook Scratchy or Buzzing Noise by Paul

Paul — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 16:29:08 +0000

I have a 15″ MBP purchased Spring 2008 and it was fine for a long time but recently developed the same sort of “trapped bug” sound in the left side of the keyboard.

1. Turning the volume off, up, down has no effect.
2. Changing screen brightness has no effect (i heard that a bad inverter was the culprit, but no)
3. It does not seem to be related to processor overload/use
4. It is very frustrating and annoying.

Not much help, but figured that venting would make me feel better. If anybody comes across a solution, PLEASE post.

Comment on MacBook Air Design: Bad, Redundant, Expensive by Tom Hunter

Tom Hunter — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 21:58:23 +0000

The MacBook Air is a fragile POS. Mine lasted 3 weeks. Its design which emphasizes cooling from the top makes it a setting duck. Unless you operate your MBA in a clean room, it’s going down. Mine took 3 weeks. Apple quoted me a $700 repair for something that cost $999 three weeks before.

Comment on MacBook Air Forum Getting Busy by Tom Hunter

Tom Hunter — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 18:15:56 +0000

I bought a MacBook Air for $999. Because of the all-aluminum frame and the no-moving-parts hard drive, I expected it to be durable.
Unfortunately, while moving a coffee cup to my lips, I spilled a drop or two of coffee on my brand-new MacBook Air. It shut down in about 30 seconds forever, a total loss. All my data is 100% gone forever. $700 to repair.

Of course, I am responsible for my own mistake. Yet, when you start to google: ” ‘MacBook Air’ water”, you see legions of customers who have encountered this problem. Couple drops of water in the top–total loss.

Why? The aluminum housing acts like a bath tub.

The design decision to include a single aluminum housing came with consequences. It introduced a new vulnerability not shared by a machine with a porous bottom, one that cooled through the bottom instead of through the keys.

The design decision to move away from a spinning hard drive to flash memory chips naked on the motherboard also came with consequences. When your data is within a hard drive, it is pretty safe–it’s raised off the bottom of the laptop. Your precious data is safe. When it’s on the motherboard, your precious data is naked to the wind.

The failure mode of a laptop with a traditional hard drive is not pretty but it’s survivable. It sucks but you can usually recover all your data. It’s also rare to have a motherboard and hard drive fail simultaneously. It’s actually pretty hard to make a traditional hard drive fail–they are sealed up tightly.
The failure mode of a MacBook Air is obscene: two drops of water, rain–and everything is gone, all of your data. Your entire motherboard, hard drive, memory–everything–is toast.