[HN Gopher] Repaste Your MacBook
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Repaste Your MacBook
Author : speckx
Score : 145 points
Date : 2025-07-11 12:53 UTC (10 hours ago)
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| zdw wrote:
| If you have any of the Air models which lack fans, there's a
| common hack of putting thermal pads between the CPU heatspreader
| and case, effectively turning the bottom case into a large
| heatsink, and giving your system a longer maximum performance
| before throttling.
|
| The downsides is that this makes the bottom of the case quite hot
| on a place you can touch, but putting a plastic hardshell over
| the entire laptop deals with that, and also gives protection.
| evanjrowley wrote:
| Thanks for that info. I've been interested in this hack and use
| plastic hard shells, but have been concerned that the plastic
| covering might prevent proper heat dissipation. It sounds like
| the tradeoff is worth it.
| ianferrel wrote:
| Making the bottom case a heatsink and then putting a plastic
| insulator around it seems to defeat the purpose of the whole
| attempt?
| delusional wrote:
| I take him saying:
|
| > a longer maximum performance before throttling.
|
| As implying that the purpose is to increase the thermal mass,
| not necessarily the dissipation. It should still be able to
| reach maximum performance for longer, it will then just also
| take longer to settle back down again.
| zdw wrote:
| This is the correct interpretation - you get a bit longer
| max clockspeed due to the thermal mass (and thus more heat
| overall).
|
| Is the added plastic shell case a "bandaid on a bandaid"
| sort of solution to deal with that heat? Absolutely. But
| you might want that case anyway - I've had several laptops
| that would have had broken screens or were yanked off a
| desk by an attached cable and survived by the sacrificial
| plastic shell taking the impact.
|
| Like all things, it's a tradeoff to consider.
| ianferrel wrote:
| Makes sense.
| manaskarekar wrote:
| It's pulling the heat away from a concentrated region into a
| larger region.
|
| Performance numbers reflect the optimization. I personally
| haven't done it for fear of affecting the battery lifespan
| (and possibly other components' lifespans.)
|
| Really hard to resist due to its simplicity and noticeable
| improvements.
| exe34 wrote:
| Reminds me of the advice given for outdoor electronics: make
| sure your enclosure is absolutely watertight, and then drill
| a hole in the bottom to drain any residual buildup from
| humidity.
| fph wrote:
| Not to mention paying premium for an extra-thin computer and
| then making it thicker with a plastic hardshell.
| phoronixrly wrote:
| I hope apple engineers see this and cringe as hard as I do each
| time people have to come to such hacks to work around their
| infamous thermal design...
|
| Take the product expected to have top-notch design with best in
| its class UX and discover you need to open it up and make a
| hardware modification and then cover its metal body with a
| cheap-looking plastic case...
|
| If you run Asahi on it as well, at this point why even bother
| with Apple...
| Retric wrote:
| Price discrimination, MacBooks aren't their top of the line
| product so it's intentionally less powerful than it could be.
| gruez wrote:
| The author should benchmark a few months afterwards. A common
| problem with using "PC" thermal pastes (for lack of a better
| word) is that they experience more pump out than whatever they
| use for laptops, so a few months later the performance might end
| up worse than before he changed the paste.
| LorenDB wrote:
| Maybe thermal pads then? I use PTM7950 in my desktop.
| bn-l wrote:
| That's pcm. A thermal pad is a thicker thing.
|
| I use the same one in my pc and it's awesome.
| LorenDB wrote:
| Out of curiosity, where did you get your PTM7950? I bought
| from LTT but I'd be interested to know if there are other
| good sources.
| craftkiller wrote:
| I'm not the person you asked but I got all of my PTM7950
| from moddiy[0]. I've put it in my laptop, desktop, and
| steam deck. Benchmarked my desktop and laptop before
| putting it in and both of them saw improved performance
| and lower temperatures.
|
| [0] https://www.moddiy.com/products/Honeywell-PTM7950-SP-
| Super-H...
| dsego wrote:
| I recently paid 60 euros to get my 14" m1 macbook cleaned, it was
| extremely dusty inside, so much so that the left fan started
| making strange squealing noises and then a pinging sonar-type
| sound every few seconds. Luckily with the combination of the fan
| control app and the built in apple diagnostic tool I managed to
| determine it was probably the fan and brought it to the local
| service shop to disassemble and clean. Now the only things left
| are to replace the original battery which is at 75% and replace
| the rustling speaker which was damaged by ants getting inside
| through the vents and chewing on it.
| gdbsjjdn wrote:
| I love "the process was quite friendly" coupled with "two of the
| connectors broke when I looked at them and one costs hundreds of
| dollars to replace".
| diggan wrote:
| To be fair, compared to the typical Apple experience of
| modifying stuff, that is quite friendly.
|
| Although author seems to have broken the TouchID sensor and
| button in the process, which is less neat and maybe not so
| friendly even for Apple.
| pier25 wrote:
| > _that is quite friendly_
|
| Maybe if you're referring to iPhones and iPads.
|
| The Intel Macbooks were always super easy to open for cleanup
| or replacing parts. I did it for years and never broke
| anything.
| diggan wrote:
| > Maybe if you're referring to iPhones and iPads.
|
| Or the new laptops ;) They're no longer Intel Macbooks, and
| compared to laptops from other brands, the new Apple
| hardware seems way harder (although I'd confess to not
| having the experience of picking any of the M* models apart
| personally). https://www.ifixit.com/repairability/laptop-
| repairability-sc...
|
| Didn't the latest iPhones have some sort of "repairability"
| push or something? Don't remember exactly, but seems to
| have given me the idea that Apple is moving towards making
| it easier to repair the iPhones specifically.
| pier25 wrote:
| > _Or the new laptops ;)_
|
| Yeah that was obvious from the OP :)
| fckgw wrote:
| Yes, they moved all their batteries away from glued
| adhesives to "Command Strips" pull-tab style adhesive
| pads. Same pads have been on the laptops for a bit as
| well. The latest iPhone also rotated the guts to where
| the battery is easier to get to and does not require
| removal of the logic board.
|
| https://www.ifixit.com/News/100693/more-modular-than-
| ever-be...
| sokoloff wrote:
| I'm something like 3 for 20 lifetime in getting those
| CommandStrip style adhesives to release completely, no
| matter how many videos I watch for technique.
| 05 wrote:
| Yeah at this point I don't even bother, just heat up the
| phone with a hair dryer until it's hot to touch and then
| rip out the battery, never got one out in anything else
| but a horribly bent condition. Pro tip: discharge the
| device to 0% before, so that if it's accidentally pierced
| during that delicate process it won't set everything on
| fire. If I ever need to do the same thing with a laptop,
| I'll try to get my hands on a barrel of sand just in
| case..
| volkl48 wrote:
| Kind of a thing that isn't uniquely difficult if you've ever
| worked in a laptop before, hard if you've never done it.
|
| -----
|
| The ZIF connectors for those fans aren't different or much more
| fragile than the ones in most other laptops.
|
| The adhesives on certain cables tend to trip people up a bit
| with causing them to pull more than they should and damage
| things.
|
| Gently working under and releasing the adhesives on those fan
| cables with the spudger (or a fingernail) before you even start
| trying to move/unplug them will work a lot better for not
| tearing things than grabbing them with tweezers will.
|
| The TouchID cable _is_ fragile. Still shouldn 't be any serious
| risk of breaking if you know to treat it with caution, but that
| would always be the one to take the most care with and watch
| the most closely while you're working around it.
|
| -----
|
| The secondary challenge is pretty much just making sure you
| have all the cables out of the way when you're putting the
| board back in, because you've got a dozen or more that you need
| to watch the positioning of and/or tape out of the way.
| jchw wrote:
| Honestly I think this is overstating things, most connectors
| on most laptops and phones are surprisingly robust. I've
| opened god knows how many laptops and phones, including some
| iPhones, and really those tiny ribbon cables have surprised
| me. Funny enough the one time I did break a ribbon cable it
| was actually the right joycon rail on a Nintendo Switch and
| it was quite an unreasonable amount of force I applied (by
| accident, of course...) I always smile a little seeing people
| on YouTube with super fine pliars carefully and tenderly
| taking off connectors, I usually use a butter knife or
| something like that to get them off and then replace them
| just using my finger. I actually worry more about carelessly
| creasing them too much rather than ripping them. Some of
| those things feel like they would require quite a lot of
| force to actually outright rip.
|
| The actual issue I have with phones isn't that the
| connectors/cables break apart if you look at them funny, it's
| actually the god damn screens are insane to deal with and
| replace, with all of that adhesive crap.
|
| This all to say, I think Apple is doing poorly here, their
| ribbon cables should probably be more robust on these often
| quite expensive devices. I know they can do it because I've
| experienced Apple devices with pretty robust internals...
| (and also similarly, have seen and heard of Apple devices
| where they've mysteriously cheaped out on components like
| voltage regulators and made their devices totally
| unnecessarily worse and more failure prone.)
| danieldk wrote:
| I changed/replaced a bunch of things in my ThinkPad T14
| without any issues, it's very easy, it is clearly made to
| open up and update. I wouldn't dare to do that with my
| MacBook Pro.
| tlavoie wrote:
| That "made to open up and update" aspect is exactly why I
| switched when my 2013 (Retina) MBP crapped out. I had just
| spent $300 CAD to replace the battery, which involved the
| glued-together mess of battery, top case, keyboard and
| trackpad. So when the charging circuit died on motherboard
| right after, I was not keen to spend much more to just get
| back to baseline. They wouldn't even countenance the idea
| of my giving them more money, so that I could get a board
| with _more_ soldered-on RAM.
|
| Switched to a P50 with twice as much RAM, and that's just
| one socket of four. Since upgraded to the max, with bigger
| SSD, it's still a beast.
|
| Compare with Apple's use of glue and special screws, when
| Lenovo provides detailed service manuals on its web site.
| LtWorf wrote:
| A disk broke in my thinkpad under warranty. I told them I
| preferred to change it myself because I needed the
| computer. They just sent the new disk and I did it by
| myself.
| tlavoie wrote:
| Right? That's awesome. With a spare bay, I got an adapter
| for my Mac-specific SSD, so still have that working in a
| not-dead, fixable device.
| teaearlgraycold wrote:
| I normally use an M3 MacBook Air, but I still have my T430
| from college and I love how upgradable and hackable it is.
|
| What I've done so far:
|
| * Maxed out the RAM to 16GB (using lower voltage DIMMs to
| increase battery life)
|
| * Swapped to a larger 9 cell battery
|
| * Upgraded the CPU (and thermal paste) from a 2 core/4
| thread i5 to a 4 core/8 thread i7
|
| * Flashed a custom BIOS to remove the WiFi card whitelist
| and installed an Intel 7260 WiFi AC + Bluetooth card
|
| * Replaced the stock 1600x900 TN panel with a 1920x1080 IPS
| display
|
| * Replaced the barrel charging port with a USB-C connector
| (requires a 20v USB PD power supply, but those aren't super
| rare or expensive)
|
| * Replaced the HDD with an SSD
|
| * Replaced the optical drive and a 2.5" drive enclosure and
| installed a second SSD
|
| Future projects:
|
| * Flash Coreboot
|
| * Upgrade to a faster i7
|
| * Upgrade to a 1440p IPS panel
|
| * Swap to a T420 keyboard
| axoltl wrote:
| I'm actually very surprised this happened. I've dis- and
| reassembled dozens of iPhones (from the iPhone 4 all the way up
| to the iPhone 16) and I've never torn a single flex cable.
|
| You just have to be careful not to pull on the flex, but the
| connector instead. This logic applies as much to pulling a plug
| out of a wall socket as it does a thin flex with a board-to-
| board connector.
|
| That said, would I characterize disassembling any Apple product
| as "quite friendly"? No. Do not attempt unless you're either
| familiar with how things go together or you're willing to spend
| the money to replace the parts you broke. If those aren't
| options, find a local repair shop.
| diffuse_l wrote:
| I tried to repair a macbook air, and did manage to tear the
| microphone cable, because I didn't notice the connector :|
|
| Like you said, you need to be careful, but you better be
| prepared to pay dearly (or manage without) for your
| mistakes...
| mh- wrote:
| Maybe I'm not adventurous enough, but I would never open an
| Apple product without a teardown video/instructions at
| hand. iFixit is a fantastic resource if they have covered
| your device previously.
| jeron wrote:
| this read more like "Do Not Repaste Your MacBook". There's no way
| this was worth 5 degrees and 100 points in cinbench (sic)
| saurik wrote:
| I mean, even the title very clearly says "(but don't)".
| meatmanek wrote:
| For some reason, the HN title has had that part removed. I
| think it used to contain it, so I guess the mods edited the
| title after the fact? Or maybe I'm misremembering.
| rglullis wrote:
| "Once you ignore that it lost Touch ID and will have to pay
| _hundreds of dollars_ to Apple for the privilege of repairing it,
| the process was quite smooth ".
|
| The Stockholm syndrome is strong with this one.
| kstrauser wrote:
| Also, the sarcasm.
| speedgoose wrote:
| By the way, the Stockholm syndrome isn't scientifically a
| thing.
| xandrius wrote:
| Still drive across a point.
| carlosjobim wrote:
| It is a particular and well documented event, which happened
| in physical reality on this planet. You can easily find all
| the evidence you could ever ask for.
| moi2388 wrote:
| Did you actually read about it? Because the entire story is
| more a warning for malpractice of the psychiatrist in
| question than an actual effect.
|
| The government told the woman to find solace in dying on
| the job. The woman was critical of this so the psychiatrist
| claimed she had sexual attraction to the hostage taker
| LtWorf wrote:
| I think not wanting to die killed by police doesn't
| automatically mean you're in love with your captors.
| agloe_dreams wrote:
| It was a joke...also the Author is a bit of a software legend -
| he is the dev behind Apollo for Reddit, the app that reddit
| killed that caused the whole revolt. A one man show that made
| an app so much better than a multi-billion dollar company that
| people literally would prefer to quit the site than switch.
| bigyabai wrote:
| "Software legend" might be stretching it. His app was
| popular, and when Reddit pulled the plug there was
| discontent, but nothing was really ever resolved. It's more
| of a software parable against being overly reliant on a
| single centralized company that can kick your revenue out
| from underneath you at the drop of a hat. *glares at Tim
| Cook*
|
| They say you either learn history or are doomed to repeat it.
| hu3 wrote:
| Yeah, with due respect, calling a popular app developer a
| "software legend" is a disservice to the likes of Fabrice
| Bellard (FFmpeg, QEMU, QuickJS).
| rglullis wrote:
| He could've easily taken down Reddit if he wanted. He just
| needed to port Apollo to Lemmy and get people to migrate. I
| personally offered him help to set up as many servers
| needed to get the migration going.
|
| But not only he refused, he went on to mock the other
| developers who were implementing an Apollo-like client for
| Lemmy (Voyager) and went on to work on a YouTube viewer for
| the Vision Pro.
|
| It seems like some people just _enjoy_ being put in a cage
| and get constantly abused.
| rglullis wrote:
| Yeah, I am familiar with Chris. He is the one that developed
| a popular application for someone else's platform (Reddit)
| and was rewarded by it by getting the CEO accusing him of
| extortion attempts.
|
| Then, after realizing that Reddit's management was just using
| him as a scapegoat and to justify the API closing off, what
| does he do? He could've used his influence to get people out
| of Reddit and porting Apollo to some other alternative, he
| went on to spend a good part of an year working on, you
| guessed it, an YouTube client for Apple's Vision Pro.
|
| Sorry, but a sibling comment has it right: Chris does not
| suffer from Stockholm Syndrome. It's full-on Battered Wife
| Syndrome.
| attentive wrote:
| how does he turn it on without a power button?
| maz1b wrote:
| While I can appreciate the intent of this blog post.. I don't see
| how the title should be "repaste your Macbook" when touch ID
| breaks and the button stops working.
|
| Doesn't Apple offer this service if you have AppleCare+? or even
| if you dont? that way its on them?
| pram wrote:
| A nice and unexpected thing about the current MBPs is they
| usually have their fan completely turned off. There was barely
| any dust in my M1 Max MBP when I looked.
| moribvndvs wrote:
| > The fan was incredibly easy to swap out (hats off there,
| Apple!)
|
| After reading this, an Apple middle manager is gathering an
| emergency meeting to figure out who fucked up
| smallpipe wrote:
| I remember doing it on a thinkpad. I didn't break any cables, I
| didn't need a guide, and it got significantly quieter afterwards.
| Macbooks are pretty, they've got a great CPU, but the
| repairability is just rubbish
| thewebguyd wrote:
| Same with most dell laptops I've owned. Pop off the back panel
| and everything is there, easily accessible, standard screws.
| Just did this on an Inspiron I have, just about 8 screws, pop
| the heat sync off, repaste, reassemble and done. Took like 15
| minutes. Plus the RAM and SSD are also easily accessible and
| replaceable, as is the battery in a matter of minutes.
| sethhochberg wrote:
| The part I have a hard time with as a corporate purchaser is
| that the failure/repair/replacement rate on our small number
| of Dell machines is upwards of 50%. We've only got about a
| dozen in use, and less then half of them have just worked
| reliably. At a certain point I don't really care how
| repairable the Macbooks we buy for almost everyone else
| are/aren't because the failure rate on those is trivial by
| comparison.
|
| I'm glad the Dell repair guy who gets sent out has a pleasant
| experience when he replaces the guts of a machine but my team
| still has to spend time and money shipping around
| replacements and dealing with warranty repair at a rate we
| just don't see with the Apple gear.
|
| Once upon a time our entire corporate fleet was all Macbooks
| but the only thing we had worse luck with than these Dells
| was training nontechnical users on how to get to their Excel
| or specialized actuarial/compliance software through
| virtualization
| thewebguyd wrote:
| No argument there. Where I work (I'm in infrastructure, not
| a dev) we've switched almost entirely to MacBooks and
| experienced the same when were a Dell shop. Horrible
| reliability. We've been on Macs since ~2023 and I've yet to
| need to send one off for repair or RMA.
|
| I keep them for use at home as Linux machines because of
| the repairability and ease of upgrading, but my main
| machine is still a Mac.
|
| I'd love MacBook level of hardware quality combined with
| easy access to repair and swap parts.
| jorvi wrote:
| IBM saw their internal tech support requirement plummet
| when they switched to MacBooks.
|
| I've never understood companies that cheap out on
| laptops. Even if you only pay someone minimum wage
| (EUR1800), a high end laptop is ~1 month wage, and you
| get a tax write-off on it too.
|
| Even if that person only works there for 2 years, that's
| 4.2% of the cost of employing them.
|
| Even worse is when management doles maxed out iPhones and
| MacBooks Pros out to themselves, but the main workforce
| has to make do with EUR650 craptops and cheap Samsung
| phones. For me that's always a double red flag because it
| tells me management is both inept and greedy.
| reddalo wrote:
| > repairability is just rubbish
|
| I wonder if something will change for the better in the future,
| given that the EU will force (from 18th February 2027) every
| computer sold in the EU to have removable and replaceable
| batteries.
| xandrius wrote:
| Waiting for that day to come before even considering buying
| my own macbook. Let's see.
| thimabi wrote:
| I wonder if Apple itself offers repasting services via AppleCare.
| For someone like me, with little experience in handling
| electronics, it might be better than trying to fiddle with the
| MacBook's internals.
| reddalo wrote:
| Offering such a service would be an admission by Apple that
| their products are not God-tier.
| t1234s wrote:
| I had to do this to my 2012 MBP (along with fixing the gpu solder
| problem) and I found it wasn't that hard to disassemble /
| reassemble. Also replacing the battery, upgrading the ram/storage
| was very easy to do. Contrast this to my 2017 MBP which has to
| score on the top 10 list of worst apple products of all time as
| far as quality and ease of repair go.
|
| Have these new M3/4 MPBs gone back at all to being easy to
| dismantle or change the battery in? The OP with their M1
| mentioned tearing overly thin ribbon cables.
| jpalomaki wrote:
| I replaced battery and did repaste on Intel MacBook Pro (with
| Touch Bar). Quite tedious process. So many extremely tiny
| screws with different sizes and all those small connectors.
| Having been mostly opening ThinkPads before I wasn't really
| prepared for it. Also did the mistake of not reading the full
| instructions before starting. The process took way longer than
| I expected and with zillion teeny tiny half millimeter screws
| on table I was afraid to take a break.
| hengheng wrote:
| I was tempted to do that with my first-gen Intel MacBook
| because it just wouldn't run quiet when idle, that is until I
| discovered by how much I could undervolt that chip with a
| random tool that I could just download. I believe I went from
| 1.26V to 1.03V, or at least these are the numbers still etched
| into my brain.
|
| Ratio of the squares of those numbers is 2/3, and so the laptop
| was certainly quiet without having to open it up. But I was
| surprised at Intel's product back then.
| lisnake wrote:
| I fixed the eGPU disconnecting issue on my 2012 MacBook Pro by
| placing the entire motherboard inside an oven for 10 minutes (a
| rather unconventional solution for reballing). So, yes,
| MacBooks from that era were not as fragile as they are now. By
| the way, that laptop still works.
| RattlesnakeJake wrote:
| I cut my Apple-repairing teeth on an iBook G3 that would lose
| its BGA-soldered GPU if it overheated. The "fix" was to use a
| heat gun, propane torch (my choice), or even burning alcohol
| to gently reflow the solder:
|
| https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/repairing-
| ibook-g3-grap...
|
| I did it at least three times before that laptop died. Fun
| times.
| masklinn wrote:
| > Have these new M3/4 MPBs gone back at all to being easy to
| dismantle or change the battery in?
|
| No.
|
| They're not as bad as the touchbar era (which was truly awful)
| but they're still a lot worse than the unibodies: ifixit scored
| the unibodies at 7/10, the apple silicon generation get 4/10
| (although the criteria have changed a bit so the comparison is
| not quite 1:1 this matches my impression: while I've not yet
| had to dive into my M1P's guts what I've seen of it don't seem
| easy, while I was able to easily dive in and out of my 2010 and
| replaced the ram, the battery, the drive (twice), the
| superdrive (by an HDD tray, then put the superdrive back a few
| years later), the fans, ...
|
| And the Unibody was a step down from my previous polycarbonate
| macbook in terms of accessibility (the battery could just be
| popped out, and let you access the RAM and HDD without even
| having to unscrew the case).
| haiku2077 wrote:
| Don't use regular thermal paste or pads in a Mac. They're not
| suitable for non-pressure mounted applications.
|
| You can buy TCRS Carbon Black if you really need to repaste a Mac
| part instead of swapping a new part that was pasted at the
| factory.
| dmsnell wrote:
| Several years ago I replaced the thermal paste in my MacBook Pro
| and I did it in two steps: first to high-end paste; and second to
| liquid metal.
|
| The results were impressive, and I think it's a bit veiled how
| paste degradation over time impacts perceived laptop speeds. I've
| been tempted to replace the paste on new devices but haven't
| taken that plunge.
|
| https://fluffyandflakey.blog/2019/04/13/increasing-thermal-h...
| Havoc wrote:
| Need to repaste and replace pads on my 3090 (appears to be
| overheating) and dreading the process, especially the pads.
|
| >[After] Max CPU temperature: 96degC
|
| What? Is that normal for macs?
|
| Vaguely unrelated I'm only buying thermal grizzly paste in
| future...that factory tour they did was super impressive.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsIk_mMrt2w
| dwood_dev wrote:
| GPUs are quite easy to repaste. Just order the correct
| replacement thermal pads in advance and the whole thing is
| easy.
| Havoc wrote:
| Yeah I'm optimistic. Just anxious cause paying for a new 24gb
| nvidia card is something I could do without in this GPU
| market
|
| Found a yt that for my precise card being repadded though so
| should be ok
| dontlaugh wrote:
| It's normal for any CPU under load with correctly sized cooling
| to be just under its maximum temperature, which is often 100.
| ErrorNoBrain wrote:
| someone made a youtube video not too long ago (i think was that
| guy who made the 3rd party ssd upgrade kits?) he said that apple
| uses a special type of thermal paste... not that its some super
| awesome unique product, it's just that its not a paste in the
| typical sense, like you'd use on a GPU or CPU. It's more like a
| "putty".
| drewolbrich wrote:
| I have a 2021 M1 Pro MacBook Pro that I use every day, and I
| don't hear the fans...at least not yet.
|
| I wonder how my situation differs from Christian's.
| mdasen wrote:
| Same. One difference might be how much stress we put on the
| machine. I believe thermal paste does degrade faster with more
| heat and Christian says that he throws a lot at it: video
| editing, code compiling, CAD models.
|
| It might make a difference how much usage is being put on the
| machine leading to degradation of the original thermal paste
| faster or slower.
| wyclif wrote:
| Is it possible to clean the dust out of the M1+ models without
| cracking them open?
| hhh wrote:
| I use my M1 Max every day and still have only heard the fans once
| when it kernel panicked.
| mrexroad wrote:
| I remember having to do this with the 2006 MBP, the first Intel
| books, when they were new.
| amatecha wrote:
| I got the first intel Mac Mini (Core Solo), and it only
| survived a year or two before something on the logic board
| literally burned up. Not a good first impression on the
| switchover to the new architecture :(
| dclowd9901 wrote:
| >But where I also really notice it is in idling: just writing
| this blog post my CPU was right at 46degC the whole time, where
| previously my computer idled right aroud 60degC. The whole
| computer just feels a bit healthier.
|
| I get this same feeling whenever I change the fluids on my cars.
| I know from a practical perspective, it's very little changed,
| but I can't help feeling like the car just feels like it's in a
| better place. Which I guess it is? But I know it's entirely
| mental.
| mxfh wrote:
| Weirdest disconnect of content to headline. In short: If your M1
| is still working fine, don't do what I did.
| Eric_WVGG wrote:
| I wouldn't trade a modern Macbook for an old one by any stretch,
| but man, you could really have some fun with those older models.
|
| I gave my modded 17" 2009 "cafeteria tray" Macbook Pro to my
| father, and after using it for many more years, he brought it in
| for... something. I had replaced the internal optical drive with
| an SSD and reformatted it as a "Fusion Drive" (a kind of smart
| multi-drive partition that would put commonly-accessed things on
| an SSD and large rarely-used storage on an HD, identified as a
| single drive), apparently every Genius Bar employee crammed
| around the table because they had never seen any Apple computer
| like it :D
| ravetcofx wrote:
| Fusion was so terrible and unreliable in my experience. they
| were still selling fusion iMacs till 2020, and it honestly
| seemed faster to just disable the fusion and let it be HDD
| only. I saw so many failures and data loss with that.
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