Apple 'fesses up to 7200 RPM HDD issues, aims to dispatch a fix forthwith
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted Aug 11th 2009 4:32PM
posted Aug 11th 2009 4:32PM
MacBook Pro owners suffering from 7200 RPM noise pollution and performance issues, Apple has acknowledged your pain and wants you to know that it's working hard to remedy the situation. According to CNET, the problem seems to be restricted to 500GB / 7200 RPM hard drives, with the likely culprit being code that's somehow "causing the drive to sleep during use." No word yet on a release date for the patch, but you'll know as soon as we do. As you know, we'll pretty much take any opportunity we can find to run a Lloyd Dobler Photoshop.
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Where are all the QA/QC flaming? Or does only Palm and Microsoft get it?
Only Apple gets it. Microsoft is immune to things even Apple gets flamed for, like non-user-replaceable batteries and whatnot.
It's happening to Dell laptops too. It's tied to the Seagate drives.
Are you suggesting Apple should take the bite for something Seagate screwed up on?
Funny, I didn't think Microsoft had anything to do with batteries in general. Other than their Zune, but what MP3 player that uses rechargeable as replaceable ones? Apple makes the decisions for their notebooks, Microsoft doesn't. They just make the OS. Thanks.
No it's not, It's been a well documented issue on people both using Apple supplied 500GB Harddrives and Western Digital as well. It is not limited to the Seagates.
Do you have some info backing this up? My understanding is it is the Seagate drives only.
maybe microsoft doesnt get it because they dont build the devices themselves? (xbox aside). where as everything apple makes and supports they had total control over the design.
SugarySnack: Zune? Non-replaceable battery? That sounds exactly like some Microsoft hardware. Thanks.
Forthwith, eh? Reference to Mr. Show--The Burgundy Loaf?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi5PFI3rMTQ
Don't you know it!
Your stock just went way up in my book, Mr. Flatley.
Epic picture :D
naughty code
This happens to my 320GB 7200 RPM drive too, I hope the 500GB drives aren't the only ones that are fixed
Yup, me too on the 320GB 7200rpm.
Yep. Same here. Praying mine will get fixed too.
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i submitted this yesterday WHAT THE HELL
It's because you put that comment in the other article... they don't like that.
Who cares. Is your life really that empty?
lol, ok... i'll let it go ....
I going to set up a "Friends of Makavre" group on facebook to make sure he gets his due credit.
For great justice!
Macs. They just work.*
*Most of the time.
You would struggle to get a PC manufacturer to fess up and sort it out if it was one of their products.
Microsoft. Where do you want to go today?*
http://www.thecybersource.com/images/bsod.jpg
*is blue a direction?
@Zak
Search me mate, I don't use XP anymore except at work where I have to. My Vista machine hasn't had a BSOD since pre SP1.
But thanks for your input!
@adrian
You're right. But then they don't carry the tagline that their units 'just work' when in fact they don't always.
I'd stay to discuss this point further but the bouncing blue balloon on my Macbook is informing me that it needs to update Safari. Again.
Over 45MB and a restart. Awesome.
Macs. They just work.*
*Mostly and if you can put up with the continuous updates which inevitably mean you need to restart your machine even if it's just for a browser (of course it could be because elements of Safari - or rather WebKit - are so integrated with OS X that it's an alteration to the OS but then we would be hypocrites for suggesting things like IE can't be separated from Trident amongst other things. Woops!)
Toodles!
Oh right, so because yours hasn't bluescreened, that means nobody's has and nobody's ever has. That's some flawless logic you're using there. Additionally, none of my Macs are having any problems, so clearly Macs do just work. Thanks for playing.
Oh and I love that you're complaining that Apple issues fixes for things that need fixing. That's priceless. You're right Mark, Apple shouldn't fix anything. That's a much better way of doing business.
Also, as an aside - you can download and install updates whenever you want. You don't have to do it right when it says you have to. You can even tell it to restart later. Learn something new every day, huh?
@Zak, I'd hope you're being sarcastic by telling someone that just because their Vista computer works that all others don't, then saying all macs work because yours do.
aschmack, did you even read Mark's first post? I responded to it this way because he likes to imply that all Macs have problems all the time. You agree with that?
@Mark Anderson
You have to activate and get permission from MS HQ before you can confident that Windows will still "just work".
@Zak:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/152166797_6a3bf664ac.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si98lWjEHpI&feature=player_embedded
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/sbbod.html
As if your immune. Ive owned a Mac. All computers have problems. No one is immune from hardware failure, the main cause of BSOD's. Except if you install a version of Apple made software called iTunes on Windows, which would blue screen because of the horrid USB drivers Apple made.
@Zak
Vista does bluescreen, just very, very infrequently. Probably about the same as OS X 10.5 causes a kernel panic actually.
Was that all?
I got my wife a MBP 13inch and the first thing I did was drop a WD 7200rpm 320gb drive in there. Runs silent. Whatever it cost me it was cheaper than adding the 320gb from apple...and apparently quieter...
With all these problems Apple fanboys still claim they Macs are worth paying the extra premium.
I WILL ALLOW NO FRUIT IN MY HOUSE...
@ Daniel
Have fun with scurvy!
just wait 'til one of your kids comes home and tells you they're gay...
if you actually bought this upgrade through apple, then lol
sleep while in use? wtf
I love Apple. How many other companies go out of their way to do this sort of thing. I've had my laptop for the past three years and the technical issues that came with it are still here because they just don't care about fixing their products like Apple does. As soon as I can save up rest assured there will be some aluminum sexiness to rest my palms on.
You won't see Microsoft quote your comment in their laptop hunter ads.
i love Orange
I have an Aluminum Glass iMac. And even I want to make a sexual joke about you and wanting to get your Palms on something aluminum. Will someone please oblige for me?
I don't think the tin man is into skinny jean wearing tweens.
What about exploding ipods? Still waiting for apple to fess, better yet i think there is a lawsuit brewing in the EU.
Under the Energy Saver preferences, uncheck the box that says "Allow hard drive to sleep in teh middle of tasks." Problem Solved.
Apple - paying premium prices for poor performance. The entire Macincrap ecosystem is garbage - OSX an outdated OS that cant multitask worth a crap and is so bogged down with performance due to supporting x86 and ppc and being based on old legacy unix tinker code it makes Vista look good; and outdated hardware that is shodily put together with a focus on how it looks to sell to the hipster dofus crowd. Think different.
What does that have to do with a Hard Drive issue? Go back to your Church you Scientologist.
PG - you really are kind of a moron, aren't you?
Actually L. Ron Hubbard is sounding pretty logical right now compared to this mental midget :(