I have a new MBP and am having significant problems with it. Basically, it runs hot -- so much for the Penryns running cool, at least for me -- and it runs down the battery fast. If anyone has any suggestions, they would be most appreciated as Apple doesn't seem to think these numbers warrant repair. I can still eat the restocking fee for another couple days.
On three calibrations, 11 cycles, here is where I am at.
Temperatures, under light web use, AC power, Ethernet, no wireless, charge completed: (Fahrenheit conversion in parentheses)
CPU-A 51 (124)
GPU Diode 52 (126)
GPU Heatsink 50 (122)
Heatsink A 51 (124)
Heatsink B 42 (108)
Encl. Base 37 (99)
Mem Ctrlr 43 (109)
Airport Card 37 (99)
HD 40 (104)
And as for battery life, web use and mail gets me 3:20 - 3:25 or so. So much for "five hours of wireless productivity".
If I use Airport, the wireless card goes up to 56-57 (around the 133-135F mark) degrees Celsius, and the memory controller to about 53-54 (about 130), and the left side of the computer gets unpleasantly hot. No major changes to the other sensors though.
Most disturbing of all is that this is a replacement for another computer that had a display backlight defect. But that other computer delivered well over four hours of battery life, and ran much cooler.
The above temperatures are with an ambient room temperature of 25 degrees celsius (77F)
The only of those temperatures that seem normal to me are the graphics card and the hard drive. Everything else seems too hot. However, Apple telephone support, while acknowledging that the numbers seem "on the high end" for the temperature and "low" for battery life, don't seem to think they are out of specification, and suggested that a mail-in repair might well result in the computer coming back "no problems found." That is what I found with my hardware test at any rate.
EDIT: Airport seems to heat up less on 2.4GHz than on 5GHz -- more like about 45C (114F)
On three calibrations, 11 cycles, here is where I am at.
Temperatures, under light web use, AC power, Ethernet, no wireless, charge completed: (Fahrenheit conversion in parentheses)
CPU-A 51 (124)
GPU Diode 52 (126)
GPU Heatsink 50 (122)
Heatsink A 51 (124)
Heatsink B 42 (108)
Encl. Base 37 (99)
Mem Ctrlr 43 (109)
Airport Card 37 (99)
HD 40 (104)
And as for battery life, web use and mail gets me 3:20 - 3:25 or so. So much for "five hours of wireless productivity".
If I use Airport, the wireless card goes up to 56-57 (around the 133-135F mark) degrees Celsius, and the memory controller to about 53-54 (about 130), and the left side of the computer gets unpleasantly hot. No major changes to the other sensors though.
Most disturbing of all is that this is a replacement for another computer that had a display backlight defect. But that other computer delivered well over four hours of battery life, and ran much cooler.
The above temperatures are with an ambient room temperature of 25 degrees celsius (77F)
The only of those temperatures that seem normal to me are the graphics card and the hard drive. Everything else seems too hot. However, Apple telephone support, while acknowledging that the numbers seem "on the high end" for the temperature and "low" for battery life, don't seem to think they are out of specification, and suggested that a mail-in repair might well result in the computer coming back "no problems found." That is what I found with my hardware test at any rate.
EDIT: Airport seems to heat up less on 2.4GHz than on 5GHz -- more like about 45C (114F)
