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Hi all, I visited the mac shop today with my Macbook Pro due to what I thought was over heating issues.
I call it the lid hinge but the Genius tech called it something else. Any way that long bar at the back of the keyboard, which supports the screen frame, I find that when I run Photoshop, Garageband, Camtasia, watch DVD's or let time capsule back up a lot of work, that this area not only gets hot, but I mean seriously hot.
Half a second is all I can leave my finger there and I only did this to get an accurate (ish) idea of what to tell the tech.
The Time Capsule and my external G Drive Mini hard drive as well as the rest my Macbook Pro, get hot and accept that this is acceptable.;D
Posts on Google show pictures of the battery opening up and the power cord magnet end actually melting and this is what got me worried.
The Tech says that "the machine is designed to get this hot and the fans are kept this low to reduce the noise that they can generate".
I questioned components getting damaged with so much heat and pointed out the battery and power cord issues.
He said that he has seen a damaged battery before, but it was about 4 years old which they class as possible life expectancy, we were side tracked and the cable melting was not addressed. SORRY!
He then went on to say that 95% of freezing, locking up, screen closing down and telling us to re-start, issues were related to people not down loading the latest software updates on a regular basis.
He's final comment was to say that, "if the machine gets to hot for what it is programmed to do, then it will cut out and no damage will be done".
I am wondering weather to still have my oscilating fan handy, just in case.
All the best
Terry
I call it the lid hinge but the Genius tech called it something else. Any way that long bar at the back of the keyboard, which supports the screen frame, I find that when I run Photoshop, Garageband, Camtasia, watch DVD's or let time capsule back up a lot of work, that this area not only gets hot, but I mean seriously hot.
Half a second is all I can leave my finger there and I only did this to get an accurate (ish) idea of what to tell the tech.
The Time Capsule and my external G Drive Mini hard drive as well as the rest my Macbook Pro, get hot and accept that this is acceptable.;D
Posts on Google show pictures of the battery opening up and the power cord magnet end actually melting and this is what got me worried.
The Tech says that "the machine is designed to get this hot and the fans are kept this low to reduce the noise that they can generate".
I questioned components getting damaged with so much heat and pointed out the battery and power cord issues.
He said that he has seen a damaged battery before, but it was about 4 years old which they class as possible life expectancy, we were side tracked and the cable melting was not addressed. SORRY!
He then went on to say that 95% of freezing, locking up, screen closing down and telling us to re-start, issues were related to people not down loading the latest software updates on a regular basis.
He's final comment was to say that, "if the machine gets to hot for what it is programmed to do, then it will cut out and no damage will be done".
I am wondering weather to still have my oscilating fan handy, just in case.
All the best
Terry