i7 MBP over heat? no way!

[Super7668]

Received my i7 MBP yesterday, and try to run parallels, TVU player, safari, aperture side by side, and it's not over heat at all, just felt slightly warm above the CPU, it's amazing! especially compare to my 1st gen MBP. I don't have to use my coolermaster cooling pad at all.

Glossy is not a problem as I thought, the screen is gorgeous! So far, I LOVE it! 😀

 

[TMRaven]

Everybody probably suffocates their laptops by keeping the aluminum base on or very close to a surface.

 

[sadcamper]

Everybody probably suffocates their laptops by keeping the aluminum base on or very close to a surface.

As opposed to...😕

The only time mine has overheated is when playing Machanarium (sp?) in Windows 7.

 

[Hellhammer]

It's a game of luck. Many OEM computers have ridiculously poorly applied thermal paste which is of course the cheapest thus the worst in conducting heat so that's causing a lot heat issues because the heat isn't conducted properly to the fan which then spreads and dissipates the heat

 

[Sankersizzle]

As opposed to...😕

what? do you mean you don't use your warlock powers to levitate your macbook 4 feet in the air while you use it standing up?

 

[sadcamper]

what? do you mean you don't use your warlock powers to levitate your macbook 4 feet in the air while you use it standing up?

So thaaaaat's how you all use them...here I was feelin' all inferior. 🙄

 

[FangBianMian]

I use one of my Wife's toe nail painting seperator things (they've probably got a a name) to raise the rear of my MBP 0.5" - it really helps getting some air between the base and a tabletop.

 

[sadcamper]

I use one of my Wife's toe nail painting seperator things (they've probably got a a name) to raise the rear of my MBP 0.5" - it really helps getting some air between the base and a tabletop.

I do believe that is, in fact, the technical name.

Note to self: find wife to thus enhance mbp's cooling capacities. 😛

 

[SurferMan]

Everybody probably suffocates their laptops by keeping the aluminum base on or very close to a surface.

uhhhh did you attach stilts to the bottom of your laptop?? 😕🙄

 

[Mirabella]

Received my i7 MBP yesterday, and try to run parallels, TVU player, safari, aperture side by side, and it's not over heat at all, just felt slightly warm above the CPU, it's amazing! especially compare to my 1st gen MBP. I don't have to use my coolermaster cooling pad at all.

I agree. Mine runs cool as a cucumber. Nothing I've tried has made it more than slightly warm.