Problems with my new 2 week old Unibody MacBook Pro

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Unibody MacBook Pro acceptance
- Hard freezes
    - No cursor movement
    - Audio short loop (like stuck record)
    - Only happens (so far) with 4GB RAM
    - Ran for 3-4 days with stock 2GB RAM
    - Ran for 10 days with 4GB RAM
        - Crash on day 2
        - Crashes on days 6, 7, 8, 10
    - Running since 4/22 evening on 3GB RAM, no freeze yet
    - Requires hard reset
    - Anecdotal evidence suggests a problem with 4GB RAM
        - Apple - Support - Discussions - Random Freezing ...
          <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1767718>
        - Apple - Support - Discussions - Random Freezing - Continued
          ...
          <http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1966105>
- Bluetooth devices cease working and cause crash
    - Keyboard (new style Apple Bluetooth wireless keyboard) and mouse
      (Logitech) ceased working
    - Built-in keyboard and trackpad ceased working temporarily
    - When built-in input worked again, Bluetooth peripherals were
      still listed in the menu bar menu
    - Trying to open Bluetooth pref pane failed
    * Log at the relevant time
    - Tried to close lid to force sleep (hoping for HID reset)
        - Snoring light came on, but stayed bright
        - Opening lid did not revive OS X
        - Pinging the machine not possible
        - Forced to hold power button for hard reset
    - Only seen once so far, but support forum searches are not
      promising
- UI freeze during "detect displays"
    - Manually triggered "detect displays" due to issue below (4/26, c.
      20:20)
    - All UI froze, no graphics updates, no input via builtin or
      external keyboard or mouse
    - Was able to SSH in
        - Found WindowServer at 100% CPU
        - Found Terminal (last active app) at 100% CPU
            - Was able to kill Terminal
        - Found aslmanager at 100% CPU for a while, but it calmed down
          on its own
        - Would not respond to sudo reboot
    - Screen dimmed at normal interval
    - Had to reset via holding the power button
- Wifi drops large percentage of packets with full bars of reception
    - AP (Airport Extreme c. 2003, 802.11g) mounted in basement ceiling
    - Wifi works fine in family room on first floor
    - In office (~15 ft. above family room), wifi drops packets at
      about 30-40% rate with ping times to AP ranging from tens of ms
      to 5 seconds, and a ping time standard deviation as high as 2
      seconds
    - Previous MacBook Pro had no trouble at all
    - Very marginal improvement after turning on "interference
      robustness" in AP
    - Ping times improve vastly with external Firewire disk powered off
        - Still losing ~5% packets and ping stats
          1.607/19.083/633.947/71.655 ms
        - After powering on external disk (yet not connecting), losing
          17% packets and ping stats 3.047/400.926/2611.117/504.931 ms
          and 2.094/8868.973/28348.734/8237.749 ms
        - Proximity?
    - Switching from channel 1 (autoselected) to channel 6 on the AP
      seems to vastly improve things
        - 6697 packets transmitted, 6689 packets received, 0% packet
          loss
          round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.745/15.552/141.925/14.850 ms
- iPhone can't stay connected to iTunes
    - Disappears from source list during sync without complaint
    - Sometimes iPhone thinks it's still syncing (but not charging)
    - Has happened on 2 separate occasions
    - But have also had successful syncs
- Will not detect Cinema Display automatically
    - Using a Mini Displayport to DVI adapter
    - Main display darkens (as if doing the automatic display
      detection) and returns without using the Cinema Display
    - Manually pressing the "detect displays" button gets the display
      detected and working properly
    - No issues with automatic detection of Princeton VL2017 via
      adapter at work
- Battery does not charge when plugged in
    - Plug in power adapter, no LED lit
    - OS X claims power source is adapter, but battery is not charging
    - Has only happened rarely (twice?)
    - Fixed by unplugging and re-plugging
- Left fan makes odd noise
    - The left fan makes a strange noise
    - Exacerbated w/high fan RPM