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Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven

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Re: Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven

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Post by dba7dba »

I worry about heat in my apple computers.

Heat/GPU issue killed my first 17" Apple Macbook Pro. Just as 3 year AppleCare ended.

Heat seems to be the reason ethernet in my mac mini randomly dies every few days and the fix is rebooting the switch it's connected to. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1341108?start=45&tstart... I believe a heat sensor either correctly or wrongly detects high heat and disconnects ethernet. It's never shutdown completely though.

My last iMac screen was burned in just as 3 year warranty ended due to high cpu heat over the 3 years. The burn in happened right where the cpu was located.

And current imac is even thinner, meaning less space for air to flow, which is why I'm forced to buy Mac Pro for my video editing. iMac would be more than enough for my need but I know the monitor will get burn in after 3 years and so i will just go for mac pro. At least it has good cooling system or so I hear.

Well played apple. Well played.

Re: Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven

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Post by lateguy »

jwcrux wrote: post #360
lateguy wrote: post #353

Irony, I am in apple repair center while writing this. I have a 9 month old macboook within span of 6 months the connector cable between hard disk and logic board got corrupted, I have no idea why this happened twice (even the apple customer rep. are also clueless) . As they don't have any warehouse in New Delhi(India), they order it from Bangalore(India) and take 5 days to replace it last time and same this time,. A…

Put the macbook in an oven - should solve the problem./s On a serious note, I'm not sure what it means for a cable to be corrupted.. wouldn't this just mean a bad cable? Could you elaborate?

Yes, bad cable.

Re: Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven

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Post by teslacarsgobang »

TrainedMonkey wrote: post #229
fein wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you in my living room? A few months ago I disassembled and cleaned a grape juice damaged MBP. Tried it afterward and no dice. Tried it yesterday on a bored whim and I now have a working MBP with a sticky keyboard. Why? I have no idea.

Most of the actual logic board is sealed. So unless you spill something corrosive that goes through that seal and damages the logic board liquid can only get to and damage[0] actual connectors between components and physically moving entities. In case of MBP physically moving entities are mostly fans and keyboard. My guess would be that grape juice shorted some of those connectors. After few months it dried sufficien…

I found I didn't need any extra holes in the case, as the OS was already full of holes! And that was not cool (or cooling)!

Re: Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven

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Post by Recoil42 »

michaelcampbell wrote: post #357
pm wrote: post #295

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Heh. I caught in the rain with my MacBook Air, and it worked fine for a day, but then wouldn't boot up at all and wouldn't hold charge. Three weeks later and rice and all that jazz and nothing. A couple months later, the charger showed a light, but it wouldn't boot and never lit up green. Six months from the first incident, and I randomly plugged it in and it booted instantly - I was ecstatic. It lasted two weeks bef…

Unfortunately rice is mostly placebo. It's something to give your brain a reason to leave the device alone for a while. Use an actual dessicant. Which might also not work, but then your problem is less likely leftover wetness.

Rice does certainly work as a mild desiccant. Admittedly it is not a terribly effective desiccant, but it still has those properties.

Re: Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven

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Post by SyneRyder »

shortstuffsushi wrote: post #247
kybernetyk wrote: post #66

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Any that fits in your budget. I've been running on MBPs since 2008 and never had one give up. (My oldest one still is running as a test device).

Girlfriend has a 2008 MB that I bought off Ebay, other than the hard drive dying (and giving me ample warning and time to replace first), it's had no problem. Since it's limited to 4GB RAM, it isn't really ideal for development, but she runs Photoshop and Illustrator on it (albeit, a bit slow for my taste). I personally own a late 2011 MBP (same as the article, I believe) with 8GB RAM, also no problems, running a pre…

If that's a 2008 MacBook that you have, it should be able to (unofficially) take at least 6GB RAM. I have a 2007 MacBook with 6GB RAM and I've never had any problems with the RAM upgrade (running Lion & Mountain Lion, at least). Try looking up your model number in the small print here:

http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/memory/MacBook/DDR2/

Re: Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven

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Post by Philadelphia »

WalterBright wrote: post #195
matthewmacleod wrote: post #188

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This is awful advice! Losing a smartphone isn't going to ruin me, but it sure would piss me off to have to fork out £500 or whatever because it gets jacked. Similarly, someone could break into my house and clean it out. Not going to ruin me, but I'd rather not have to replace everything. The whole point of insurance is collective risk-spreading. Yes, this means that the majority (by value) of people with insurance wi…

Over time, you're probably paying 2x or 3x in insurance premiums compared with what the loss would be. Consider also the overall effect if you invested the premiums instead of paying them.

I pay $45.00 a year for a $2,062, no-deductible policy on my MacBook Pro through State Farm. I'd have to have the MacBook for 45 years for the premiums to even equal the payout on loss.

Re: Why I Drilled Holes in My MacBook Pro and Put It in the Oven

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Post by sgustard »

dagw wrote: post #358
pm wrote: post #340

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How about attempting to fix the issue instead of confirming what I already knew and telling me to buy a new computer? That's what technicians are supposed to do.

As a rule of thumb never take a thing to be repaired by someone who's main business is selling new versions of that thing.

Car dealers make more money from servicing cars than selling new cars, though.

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Post by endemic »

unreal37 wrote: post #359
pm wrote: post #340

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How about attempting to fix the issue instead of confirming what I already knew and telling me to buy a new computer? That's what technicians are supposed to do.

They did the same to me, when I dropped my first iPad and cracked the screen. They looked at it, and said "We'll sell you a new one at half price". Oh thanks, not even going to pretend to try to fix it? But I did buy the new one and let them have the cracked one.

Sounds pretty great, actually. On these modern devices where the LCD is bonded to the glass screen, replacing the screen can cost as much as the device itself.
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