The Thermal Paste Reapplication Endeavor

[UgoDream]

I use external monitor, does it automatically pick the 330m ?

Yes it does.

 

[joecool99]

Yes it does.

Does the integrated intel supports external monitor at all?

 

[UgoDream]

Does the integrated intel supports external monitor at all?

Of course, even Intel gma 950 chipset support external monitor, but apple forces the use of the discrete gpu when you plug an external monitor(bad implementation of the automatic graphics switching?).

 

[Blue Sun]

Of course, even Intel gma 950 chipset support external monitor, but apple forces the use of the discrete gpu when you plug an external monitor(bad implementation of the automatic graphics switching?).

Or the way in which the Mini-displayport is wired?

 

[Cool Runnings]

Just squeezing a tube on and shoving the heatsink on most likely takes 5 seconds, while carefully spreading it out may take a few minutes. So for a whole computer it may not sound like much for a few extra minutes, but imagine having a thousand workers; that's a few thousand extra minutes lost that could have been used to make many more computers.

Most people don't care enough to be able to tell the difference anyways, so why waste man-hours on that.

The thermal paste isn't a random job by hand in the factory. I would think it's done by machine in the factory, applying a very exact amount of paste and then the they mount the heatsink, and thats what spread the paste all over.

 

[iSpoody 1243]

wow i should try this.... in 1.5 years when my applecare is gone.

 

[davidlv]

But I will buy it after the end of the first year, for sure.

May be wrong but don't you have to buy Applecare before the 1st year is over?

 

[UgoDream]

May be wrong but don't you have to buy Applecare before the 1st year is over?

Indeed, applecare is just an extension of the standard warranty.

 

[Protonk]

Just a general comment on thermal paste for 2008 unibody macbook pros. I have replaced the thermal paste on Rev. A 2006 MacBook pros and my current machine, a late 2008 Unibody. From the comments on this thread and others I expected to find as bad a mess as on the Rev. A's. Thankfully I didn't. The paste application seemed to be the sub-optimal "dot and squish", but the amount of paste applied was at least more reasonable.

Was my machine a fluke, or do we have room to hope for progress on this issue.

I'm actually quite surprised that apple hasn't taken the reins on this issue, given that thermal power is becoming a limiting factor in laptop CPU and GPU speed. There is a lot of low hanging fruit in better heat pipes, better TIM and more efficient airflow.

 

[Watermonkey]

I don't know, I am personally pretty confident that my MBP isn't going to have any hardware issues, and if it does, that Apple won't notice anything was opened up and I'll be fine. Really, almost any issue besides total logic board failure is user-serviceable, right? So I should be able to fix it myself. If the logic board for some reason kills itself, and apple doesn't want to fix it, I'm probably going to end up just replacing the entire laptop (I hear it's like a thousand dollars to replace a logic board?). Anyway, I'm not worried about any of this warranty voiding stuff. I actually can't recall ever needing to use a warranty on anything. I've always fixed it myself or just replaced it.

Just wanted to add that my logic board fried about two months past my extended warranty period. I called apple care and they had me pay some $350 or so and not only did they replace the logic board (with, I suspect, a flawed one), but one stick of RAM they detected was bad and the entire monitor was a old-tech fluorescent back lit pos but the new one is LED lit. All that for a measly $350. They replaced the screen just because I asked them to look at it and determine if it seemed too dim to them. I suspect the tech never turned it on, how could he with a bad logic board in it? He just simply replaced it all, started it up, ran a full diagnostic, saw the RAM stick was bad, put in the new one and sent it back. There was a three day turnaround between my calling AC and the FedEx truck bringing it back to me from Houston. The computer is essentially new with a possible flawed new logic board which I'm in the process of proving out to them. Apple care rocks!