Getting through the SR MBP teething phase

I do like the new macbook pro and the whole mac os x thing (I wrote a small cocoa application already!), but there are some issues with it. The caps lock key dies every once in a while. The key itself doesn't work at all. It doesn't worry me because I never use caps lock for anything but as an extra key I can bind to in a game. I can imagine uses for it though, so it bothers me a bit. Funny thing is that it does come back every once in a while. Seems like when the mbp runs hot, the key seems to work. Not sure why that is...

Another issue is the keyboard sometimes needs to warm up before it decides to take my key press... meaning the first key press sometimes gets lost when switching from mouse input to keyboard input. I don't know if this is specific to this mbp or whether it's normal mac os x behaviour. This is the behaviour more often than not, but sometimes it does take my first key press...

The final issue is the wireless signal just dropping. I just noticed it tonight, but I don't know if it's happened before. It's happening very frequently now. I have to turn the airport off and on again to get it back. It seems a lot of people have the same issue with the santa rosa mbps, which is what I have. A discussion post is here. I don't actually get kernal panics like some of the people posting on that thread, but I think it's the same problem. The signal display indicates full strength, but I can't communicate with the router at all.

The wireless is really the only serious problem. It's clearly not a hardware defect since there are so many people with the same problem (some of those people have had their mbp replaced four times and still have the same problem). Hopefully Apple will release a patch sometime in the near future. The other problems I'll try to get resolved when I have time to take it to a genius bar. My friend advised me to get the AppleCare Protection Plan, which extends support to three years. So I'll get it fixed sometime in that timeframe.

Update (July 10, 2007): I think I fixed the wireless problem by switching the DTIM value in the router from 1 to 99. A good explanation of DTIM is here. So far the wireless hasn't dropped once since switching it last night. 99 does seem noticeably high, so I guess I'll keep tinkering with it.