A certain brother of mine who owns a MacBook Pro heavily afflicted by the processor whine let me know that Apple is reportedly swapping out defective motherboards on the 1.83 Ghz edition of the machines.
CK, a blogger for Apple Defects reports that badgering an Apple phone rep was enough to discover the new motherboard revision and get it shipped out:
Me: “Yes or No? Has there been a logic board update to the 1.83 Ghz MacBook Pro?”
… Next person who talks loses, so I sat in silence …
Product Specialist: “Let me see if I can find anything in the computer, but I haven’t heard anything”
I could hear his typing over the phone and after a minute or two I was told that there actually IS an official logic board replacement for the 1.83 MacBook Pro, and that I was eligible for the replacement. I was thrilled, to say the least. The P.S. went on to say (sounded like he was reading from some kind of documentation)
“The new logic board is supposed to eliminate or greatly reduce the cpu whine.”
Get in line, kids. Maybe it will make the Airport reception useable, too.
