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After over 3 years my MBP still meets my relatively low requirements and I'm hoping to not have to buy a new computer for some time. However, I've noticed that the fan does seems to be running a lot more than it used to and it gets really hot when doing things like streaming online videos, which eventually makes the video run bad and I have to cool it off.
Then it hit me that if I had a desktop I would have cracked it open and cleaned out the fans more than a couple of times by now. I'm guessing that the innards of my MBP may be getting pretty dusty and starved for air. Does this happen with laptops like it does with desktops? I want to check on this before cracking it open.
Is there anything else I can do hardware-wise to make sure my MBP keeps going? I'm thinking of dropping in a new HDD just because 120GB is pretty small by today's standards and it never hurts to replace a part like that before it suddenly fails.
Thanks.
Then it hit me that if I had a desktop I would have cracked it open and cleaned out the fans more than a couple of times by now. I'm guessing that the innards of my MBP may be getting pretty dusty and starved for air. Does this happen with laptops like it does with desktops? I want to check on this before cracking it open.
Is there anything else I can do hardware-wise to make sure my MBP keeps going? I'm thinking of dropping in a new HDD just because 120GB is pretty small by today's standards and it never hurts to replace a part like that before it suddenly fails.
Thanks.