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How Hot is your Airport Card in your MB?

63 C and I'm just doing browsing... Then again I am on a blanket so the heat kinda sticks around, but I think 50s - 60s is normal. This bad boy does get hot though. It seems after 5.2 that the fan hasn't gone off almost at all but my MB is a lot hotter.
 
My Penryn 2.4 MacBook has an airport card that runs >70C at all times when enabled. I can just have the laptop idle and iStat will report a temp from 70-72C. Under heavy transfers it will only go up to maybe 73C. My wife's Penryn 2.1 MacBook which I got at the same time as mine has a card that idles in the mid 50s and then goes up to the 70s under stress. I don't get it. I've tried rebooting, checking processes, etc. Anyone have any ideas? The left side of my MB stays warm all the time because of it.
 
I don't recall how hot it gets when I'm hammering it, but 65 doesn't seem out of line.
 

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my airport card starts burning the moment i turn it on, even when im not working on the internet.

im gonna have mine checked, because now i start disconnecting and reconnection very often...
 
112º at the moment but my computer is sitting on m bed on top of blankets not an ideal spot for it...
 

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mines dropped to 100 i think anywere around 100-120 F is normal for me during heavy work and extended time on the computer.
 
61C.

my esata card is also pretty toasty, i dont know if that afffects the reading or not.
 
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