Lucky enough to have a MacBook Pro, but it’s running hot for you? ZDNet reports on a thread from the Awful forums conjecturing that a poor application of thermal grease may be the culprit.
A post by Interrupting Moss on the Something Awful forums mentions that “it just takes a slight misapplication of thermal grease on a MacBook Pro to make the temperatures skyrocket.”
The amazing part is that if true, Apple techs are assembling MacBook Pros with too much thermal paste because the MBP service manual tells them to! According to MacBook Pro service manual “0.2-0.3cc” of thermal grease should be applied to all three chip mating surfaces. Interrupting Moss however, states that reapplying thermal grease "properly" dropped the running temperature of his MBP by 14 degrees Celsius. […]
At times I’m sad that I only have a PowerBook/G4, but nuggets like this make me feel a little better about waiting for the MacBook Pro “rev 2”.
Yeah – gems like this are exactly why we’re waiting to roll out any MacBook Pros here at work. We’re up to 16 G4 Powerbooks, though. :)