My Powerbook. It intermittently stutters.
Apple say its because I am running more than one application that plays sound!
Well, f*** a duck. There goes my production work………..
Internet Browser – sound?, check | iTunes – sound?, check |…

Apple is ignoritng us and its Time to fight back!!!
http://powerbookdefect.info/
http://powerbookdefect.info/
http://powerbookdefect.info/
Leave you name on the list!

(you can allso see a movie reccording of the echo loop on the page)

“insulting” is really the best way to describe it. Especially considering that the Finder itself is (of course) using the audio subsystem as well just to playback the user interface sounds etc.

I think Apple should be forced to acknowledge this bug as soon as possible.

Tim

In this I blamed the technote
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302978 “insulting” and asked them to pull it!

I just added a gig of RAM (for other reasons, I knew it wouldn’t solve this issue). Incredibly, I think it’s actually made the problem worse.

Boo!

I have tried ALLOT of things to solve this issue.
YOU ALL HAVE to Call APPLE CARE NOW!
THEY are Obviously Choosing to IGNORE Us!

They have to clarefy if its a Hardware or a Software issue!
And then they have to give us a Emidiate soultuion!
If it is a Hardware issue affecting all the New PowerBooks the Have to Make a RECALL (by law we have the right to claim this).

If it is a Software issue (I doubt it though) Than they NEED to tell us this STRAIGHT AWAY and then they need to give us a DEADLINE for a FIRMWARE update ASP!!!

Call apple and push them on the issue at hand. Ask them to read the Most rapidly growing Powerbook forum on the Net: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=240423&tstart=0
And ask them what they are doing about it and WHEN we will have our Resolution. Dont hang up unless you feel you actually got some real facts and information. Allso make sure you get a case ID number.
Next time you call them again on this matter you will just mention your number/case ID and this will save you allot of time explaining yourself.

So please everyone we have had this Mailfunction for more than TWO Months now! Its Urgent that YOU CALL APPLE TODAY!
AND MAKE A CHANGE!
I can not stress this hard enough.

Apple has done nothing about this major problem, except publish that misleading tech note. The note insults us all by not describing the extent and severity of the problem and further giving us the finger by providing a work around that not only doesn’t work around the problem but suggests we can’t use the machine for what it was designed and advertised to be used for.

Contrary to Apple’s poor excuse, the audio echo/loop occurs even with NO applications running at all – the operating system’s own sound effects (like on emptying the trash can) are enough to trigger an echo fit.

They’d better fix this f%@#ing problem fast, or they will regret it.

So far, Apple appears to be ignoring us, with all their attention on the next generation Intel machines.

The built-in sound device has the lowest latency. PC-Card based interfaces that might be in the same range are very expensive.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=240423&tstart=0

And this is the offical “explenation” from apple saying we should only use ONE program at a time… If that was what I bought the stongest Machine/most expencive Apple Laptop on the Market for than I would have been better of with my old Imac that is 10 years old. That one could do many things simultaniously..

Maybe Steve Jobbs is a wanker after all.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302978

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Apple just released a OS X update that promises CoreAudio changes and a new version of QuickTime. Let’s see if this helps.

Tim

And I have this same problem…

Ive tryed various remeedes I found on the net or got from apples customer support (I think the people woorking there must be clowns of some sort).
I tryed deleting the core sound prefferences (something like that) I did install some audio core thingy that did not work… I used some short comand that reset the sound… none of this works….

I allso have found a way that provoked this to happen!
It was playing some music in Itunes while your draging a heavy movie to Toast for burning on dvdr. Than it would happen more frekwently, as if the ram cant deal with the sound or something…

Im getting really frustrated with this one! I allways had Apple computers and now is the first time I find they have such BIG problems. Planing to Work professionally with music on my mac, this makes me wonder if I Apple is such a good choice.

Please someone! Some solution to this would be NICE! Is it a harware problem you think?

I have found at least some twenty simmilar sites on the net talking about this sound loop / echo loop / echo sound problem on the mach and power books.