Oh crap............. My nice shiny new laptop arrived last night and I spent the evening moving all my file, configuring my applications, re-install the apps that required it. Everything was going fine, until I plugged in my speakers........ There is a scratchy metalic/digital 'noise' coming from my speakers. I plugged my headphones in and got the same problem. Spent half an hour on the phone today with Apple support and bottom line they have decided it is a hardware problem and needs to be returned for repair or replacement. I am really peeved...................... I now have to wait ANOTHER 15-20 days for a new machine to arrive. Oh woe is me... Robin > > Wow I ordered my 17" from Apple on the 11th, it shipped on the 16th > (Shanghai) and I received it on the 18th in Chicago.So I've had mine > for almost 6 days now and you will not be disappointed. I moved up from > a 1Ghz Ti. My college kid is one lucky little girl now, she moved up to > that from a 400MHz iMac. lol The screen real estate on this is > incredible after my last 2 years working on a 15". Enjoy your new baby!