1) It got extremely hot and burned my leg. It also burned the power cord. They agreed to replace the first power cord but they said that the “laptop” was not meant to be used in the lap and because I was using it wrong by using it in my lap that they were not liable for any harm that has come to me.

One work to Apple Computer — McDonalds –when you knowingly make a product that harms people then you become liable for that harm.

They’ve had issues with their power supplies for years, I should know I worked at Apple for seven years. A coworker of mine had his house BURN down because his power supply overhead and caught fire. Apple does these things and knows about the problems but they have almost as many lawyers as they do engineers.

So beside my laptop burning my leg, I have had the computer get into a mode where it comes to halt, takes very long to restart and is not usable. Again, (being a former quality engineer) have tracked this down to the heat. When the unit is heating up and the fan is spinning (this is in a 68 degree F room), the system just cannot cope. It’s clear this unit has major problems and in searching the internet I’m not alone.

It’s not going to be long apple before you burn some child with your product and then the public will care enough about your dangerous product to take action.

How do you know which rev you have? I assume it’s somewhere in the “about menu”. My airport is extremely flaky. It cut out after about 10 min too, but I think the cut only lasts a short while, but long enough for my server to boot me out and cause me to need to log back in.
Also, I’m not impressed by the display, but I hear it is a very common problem with other displays that use a common chip.

Amy — I understand your desire to give the MBP some praise and I don’t disagree. As I stated before, I love almost everything about this computer _except_ the heat issue and the fact Adobe products run like sh*t. I’m a bit surprised you think the performance is acceptable if you do web/graphic design for a living, as my 3 year old much-lower-spec PC runs all my Adobe products _much_ faster, as did the Dell laptop I replaced with this MBP. Perhaps I have high demands, but for what I paid for this laptop, I feel I’m entitled to that. I could have paid half as much for a PC that runs Adobe products faster and doesn’t have the heat issues. Besides, this blog post is called “MacBook Pro Problems”, so it’s natural that’s what we’re focusing on. I love the MBP enough that I want to stick it out for the Adobe updates and see what I can do about this heat issue..

The “genius” told me getting something like this pad may help with the heat issue, but I’m really skeptical..what do you guys think?

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PS: great OS. MY first apple leaps and bounds better than XP, the HARDWARE is CHEAP JUNK IN A PRETTY PACKAGE

First off, everything I’ve read is that the heat issue I’m referring to is fairly typical for the MBP. However, if what Trejkaz says is true (that some don’t heat up except on the bottom), I may consider bringing it to an Apple store to see what can be done.

Regarding the Adobe comment from Amy above, I think there is half misunderstanding in my complaint and half of what you say I totally disagree with. For the first part, the Adobe products never crash on me (I never said they did). I said the performance was horrid and this is due to them not being universal binaries. They literally aren’t made to run on the Intel processor. The difference in speed between the 1.83GHz MBP and 2GHz MBP is negligible at best. I have 2GB of ram. Perhaps if you’re doing basic home-photo altering type stuff it runs fine for you, but I’m a professional graphic/web designer and perhaps I demand more. I use the identical Adobe products on my 3-year-old PC and they easily run twice as fast, with half as much RAM and a comparatively slower processor. The fact that Adobe products run horribly (meaning running MUCH slower than they should) under Intel-based Mac’s is one of the biggest complaints out there and happens to be my #2 if not my #1 complaint. I choose to do design work on my (somewhat) ancient PC instead of my brand new expensive MBP because of the performance, which is ridiculous.

All other programs I’ve updated to universal binaries from their previous PPC-based incarnations run nearly 2x as fast.. I can’t wait.

I highly recommend having the 2gb processor though, when I went to the mac store, there was a lady there that uses the adobe products as well and everywhere else I looked it up said the same thing, as long as there’s enough processor speed, it should run fine (and it does), the problem is when it runs through rosetta it bogs down the processor, so if you have enough ram and processor speed, its smooth sailing.