mine is W8606

I have a MacBook Pro with serial W8609. What does that mean. And yes is suffers from the issues that the inital macbooks unfortunately do, see my URL. (Hope that doesnt count as a comertial link)

mine is w8608 it was shipped Feb 27th

mine arrived on April 12th (ordered on April 4th). S/N 8614

I previously posted (probably the post above this) that there was a noise issue with my W8612 MacBook Pro. I sent the laptop back because it was just too irritating and asked for an exchange. When the exchange was made the Apple store employee told me that he was shipping me a W8615 laptop and that ALL issues had been taken care of on these versions. I still haven't received the laptop (sorry, "portable") but I will let you guys know how it runs when it DOES arrive,

W8607 - works fine. it might have a whine, but it's not very loud and I don't have any comparison.

I got an 8614 yesterday. It would not power up off of the power adaptor period. With NO battery in the machine and the power adaptor connected it simply will not power on, and it will not charge the battery. I have tried friends power adaptors as well. I traded it for an 8617 today, and so far so good.

Quality Control must have gone to hell over in the China plant. I hope these new model hiccups stop soon.

I've had an W8616 for a couple of days. It gets pretty hot. I could fry an egg above the F keys.

No other problems.

Who here like me has found all over the internet and forums problems about the first batch of 15" MacBook Pro's serial W8609 having the following problems:

Overheating to the point its uncomfortable in your lap.
Airport not connecting after awaking from sleep.
Aiport dropping signal.
Screen flickering.

Well according to some sites Apple will take it away and replace/repair it. I was on the phone to Apple for an hour and a half last night, speaking to 4 different departments. None of them new what i was talking about (serial batch order is faulty) They said that anything found on the internet and not on the apple website should be viewed at face value. In the end they offered to pick it up and repair it as its in its first 90 days of warranty. The guy on the phone thinks th Memory Logic Board will be replaced as there is a new version correcting some of these issues. In every case i made it clear what ever the solution was i wanted it sorted super quick as i need it for work. They said that two weeks repair time was standard.

Anyone else having the same problems with their MBP or with Apple?
Remember if your MBP serial number is higher or equal to W8610 then your fine, e.g. W8610, W8611, W8612. As these models have the new logic board.

I'll let you know how long the repair time takes.

mine is w8609, i'm unfortunate enough to get these problems: whine problem, wifi, problem, it gets as hot as hell, and the recent problem was that the battery clearly grow larger than it should b...damn!

Mine starts with W8623 so I suppose it was made in the 23rd week? No clue what revision that is or how to find out.

I have only noticed one issue with mine (which I find to be so minor that I don't care). Every once in a while when the CPU is idle I can hear the squeeling that people have talked about. But it's very faint and doesn't happen all the time - I think it might only happen when the battery is charging.

Cheers.
P.S. This thing gets just about as hot as any other laptop I've ever used - even less hot than my old IBM P2 333Mhz. Don't see what people have been complaining about.

Serial number W8625****** purchased online via Apple Education store 2006/07/09, shipped 2006/07/10.

25th week of 2006 means the unit was manufactured in the week of June 18, 2006, a mere three weeks before my purchase.

Serial: W8612
Purchase: Canada
Shipped: Early April

Problem: Before yesterday, it was operating fine, other than the fact that you could melt the polar ice caps with it. Woke up this morning, now the thing will not start... Nothing, notta, ziltch. Cannot perform key command resets on anything. Battery appears fine and fully charged. AC works. Computer is toast.

Just spoke with a colleague who said I have to bring it in. Something about the logicboard getting messed on these.

May none of the rest of you go through this.