Apple’s been on a big admission streak lately, with the AppleCare articles about the MacBook Pro whine and the MacBook discoloration, but there are always other problems. Take, for example, the mooing MacBooks (you may recall that I was relieved to learn that my MacBook was not possessed by the spirit of a zombie).
MacUser reader (and MacBook owner) Jon Smith was annoyed enough that he set out to accomplish two things: 1) for the short term, develop a way to stop the fan from mooing and 2) get Apple to acknowledge the problem and fix it more permanently. He’s succeeded in the first, and is well underway with the second. Jon’s MooFix.com site features a Dashbaord widget that can stop the mooing by raising the CPU temperature slightly, thus kicking on the fans full time instead of intermittently. While he admits this is rather “a crude solution,” he’s also started a petition for Apple that they fix the mooing problem with a firmware update.
So MacBook owners, if you’re looking to solve the problem of errant livestock entrapped within your notebook, give MooFix a shot. And as for Apple’s participation, well, let’s hope their guilty conscience days aren’t over yet.
The moo is the only problem I have with my macbook, but it's annoying enough to ruin my macbook.
It's deflating to read apple websites trying to downplay the problem as isolated, instead of demanding apple to fix the moo problem.
I don't know how widespread the moo problem is. I just know I have it, and it sucks.