MacBook Pro Special Report: Cooling solutions
While some users have had success with reducing MacBook Pro temperature through application of the 1.0.1 firmware update, others are still experiencing excruciating surface temperatures.
Among the popular third-party cooling solutions available are Griffin's iCurve -- a device for raising a PowerBook off a flat surface, increasing airflow and reducing heat.
MacFixIt reader Allan Marcus suggests the "LapBottom" as another apt cooling device:
"This handy protective device is simply some molded plastic and some foam. You put the foam side against your lap (or tale, or bed or whatever, and the laptop rest on the hard plastic side. They even provide some rubber feet (that go on the LapBottom, not your laptop) to raise the computer a little and allow for air flow."
Index:
- 30" Cinema Display distortion
- Airline, auto power adapter problems
- Audio distortion/poor sound quality
- Apple addressing issues with new revisions?
- Battery Exchange Program
- Battery problems: Shuts off when not connected to power, more
- Built-in Display distortion
- Clock speed of ATI X1600 card -- some units apparently underclocked
- Cooling solutions
- Dead-on-arrival units
- Display slightly bent, not latching properly -- solutions
- Downgraded SuperDrive relative to PowerBook G4
- ExpressCard issues
- FireWire 800 cards for ExpressCard/34 slot on the way
- High-pitched whining noises: Eliminating; Apple acknowledges
- iSight not functioning properly -- fix
- Kernel panics caused by AirPort drivers; Not sleeping properly, still "on" with lid closed
- Kernel panics upon waking up (Inability to wake from sleep)
- Lack of alternative power adapters
- LEAP Networks; cannot connect to
- Loss of speaker capabilities
- Missing components
- Not sleeping properly, still "on" with lid closed
- Notes from service manual
- Poor general network performance
- Printer issues: Not recognized, more
- Problems sharing the Internet connection
- Release notes
- Repeated system freezes or sudden restarts -- checking for bad RAM
- Replaced logic boards have no software serial numbers
- Slow networking performance with VLANs; VOIP phones
- Wireless connectivity issues
LapBottom goes to a ad site.
Daniel
- by michael-fuchs June 8, 2006 10:43 AM PDT
- I just love my iLap (http://www.raindesigninc.com/ilap.html), no more burnt
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(3 Comments)thighs and sooo comfortable in bed... ;-)