macbook "mooing fan"

touring · Post by **touring** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:21 am

Hello,

I'm about to buy a macbook for live use, but I'm concerned about the mooing fan problem. Does your macbooks suffer from this?

Thanks a lot!

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:46 am

haha, I was wondering if anyone else experienced this!

My macbook does it, and has since the first day I got it. It sounds more like a sick cat than mooing, imo. Either way, it's not really loud or annoying. If things like this bug you, you should wait until the next generation of macbooks, though.

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 11:52 am

Also I did a big of research on this issue... looks like the mooing is caused by the cpu fan, which is no surprise. A firmware update might fix the issue, or it might not. Apple is taking their usual approach to the issue and pretending that it doesn't exist.

More info here (and other places on the apple boards, too).

thx1138 · Post by **thx1138** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 12:33 pm

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:41 pm

^^^^ I officially love my macbook's moo now.

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:54 pm

you should hear my g5

It's 31°C and full sun. Sounds like 300 ducks taking off in a jet engine.
Barely makes a quack in the winter though

The only thing i really like about summer is the festivals.
It's too bloody hot for me. Good thing that i work in a fridge this summer.

siddhu · Post by **siddhu** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 2:56 pm

The mooing sound is only at certain start up times, and is very faint.

It's not something that happens once your MBP is up and running.

Additionally, it's apparently been fixed on the newer models.

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 3:10 pm

siddhu wrote:The mooing sound is only at certain start up times, and is very faint.

It's not something that happens once your MBP is up and running.

Additionally, it's apparently been fixed on the newer models.

I must beg to differ. My macbook is new (<1mo old), and it moos all the time... especially when in windows, which I would assume is due in part to windows spinning the fans at different times. However, it still moos quite often under OSX, more often under higher CPU loads.

Either way, the sound is quite faint, and not annoying.

Danny Futuro · Post by **Danny Futuro** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 6:20 pm

I dont see why macbook mooing is a problem in the first place. So it makes a sound? Big fucken deal. It only does it here and there, and not for very long. I swear, a lot of mac guys whine more than their computers.

Digi V · Post by **Digi V** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 7:52 pm

mine moo'd for the first week or two. it shouldn't happen too often but it will happen and thats totally normal.

these are one of the complaints that you find online which are blown way out of proportion.

some say its not even the fans but the superdrive calibrating itself which i believe it is.

Danny Futuro · Post by **Danny Futuro** » Sun Jun 11, 2006 9:50 pm

Digi V wrote:mine moo'd for the first week or two. it shouldn't happen too often but it will happen and thats totally normal.

these are one of the complaints that you find online which are blown way out of proportion.

some say its not even the fans but the superdrive calibrating itself which i believe it is.

nah, its the fans for sure...if you use the computer enough to make the fans kick on you will see that the sound is the same.

eyeknow · Post by **eyeknow** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 5:31 am

hoffman2k wrote:you should hear my g5

It's 31°C and full sun. Sounds like 300 ducks taking off in a jet engine.
Barely makes a quack in the winter though

The only thing i really like about summer is the festivals.
It's too bloody hot for me. Good thing that i work in a fridge this summer.

Man, that was top of the list for reasons I took a dual g5 back..........man was it loud!

zappen · Post by **zappen** » Mon Jun 12, 2006 2:50 pm

MOO INSIDE!
LOL