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Fixing Overheating MacBook Pros

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mobrien_12:
For those of you who don't know how heat sinks work (and I think that's very very few of you), the idea is that you are supposed to have very good mechanical contact between the heat sink and the chip.  You apply thermal paste because we live in an imperfect world without perfectly flat chips and heatsink surfaces. Without paste, there would be little air gaps in spots between the chip and the sink that act as insulators.  The paste should be thin, ideally just enough to fill in the gaps.  Too much paste, and you LOSE heat transfer capability (even if you use arctic silver).  

A  guy from Somthing Awful found a picture from Apple's tech manuals which tells Apple techs to put enourmous amounts of paste on the processors.  He remounted his heatsinks, and got his temperatures down FIFTEEN DEGREES CELCIUS.

Apple's response... well read it for yourself.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/05/06/2045255.shtml
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/laptops/thermal-greasy-apple-sics-lawyers-on-something-awful-171394.php

H_TeXMeX_H:
Yeah ... well ... there you have it ... the true nature of Apple. I never liked them and I never will ... and this certainly doesn't help now does it ?

P.S. and their Ipods suck ! :D

WMD:

--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---Yeah ... well ... there you have it ... the true nature of Apple.
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I fail to make the same connection as you.

H_TeXMeX_H:
So then the guy from Something Awful is the bad guy for discovering this little screw-up and Apple are the good guys for "threatening" him ....


--- Quote --- After a Something Awful denizen took apart his MacBook Pro and discovered that Apple had slathered on far too much thermal grease, he found that using a more modest amount dropped his MacBook Pro
--- End quote ---

Orethrius:

--- Quote from: H_TeXMeX_H ---Yeah ... well ... there you have it ... the true nature of legal departments.
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Fixed for accuracy. Attornies and insurance salesmen - for the most part, I could care less if they were hoarded into a ship that "mysteriously" sank in the middle of the Atlantic (with very few exceptions). My one concern would be the amount of aquatic life killed off by the sleaze runoff.

EDIT: To be precise, the world is seldom black and white. The legal departments are one of those shades of grey, and it's really unfair to judge a corporate entity based on the lowest common denominator in their operations. Look at it this way: at least they haven't bought out Novell or extorted them over the double-click... and legal departments don't do "nice" - sad but true.

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