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<blockquote data-quote="ros5e" data-source="post: 1491988" data-attributes="member: 292542">——————————————————————————————Hi, Pendlewitch! Thanks ... I'll save my 20$.I use my MacBook as a desktop computer driving a large, external monitor. I move it twice a year when I make the Colorado/Germany 6-month emigration.I cut two wine-bottle corks in half to make four cylindrical spacers, each 1&quot; high. The MacBook sits on them so I have a 1&quot; ventilation space under it at all times. Measuring temperatures with iStat Pro dashboard app, right now it's reading HDD: 34ºC, CPU: 62ºC, Heatsinks A &amp; B: 58ºC each.At night, I do not shut the machine down; I put it to sleep so all my interrupted work will still be on the screen when I wake the MacBook up in the morning.I reboot it about once a week, and I do that with a restart; I do not power it down. I turn the computer off with Shut Down... before I have to move it. The ONLY time I'll power the computer down using the On/Off button is when the system totally locks up.For what it's worth, my background is Electrical Engineering, and I've developed a healthy respect for hardware so I don't knowingly mistreat my MacBook.Processsor: 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 DuoMemory:&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAMNew HDD:&nbsp; &nbsp; 500 GB Seagate</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ros5e, post: 1491988, member: 292542"] —————————————————————————————— Hi, Pendlewitch! Thanks ... I'll save my 20$. I use my MacBook as a desktop computer driving a large, external monitor. I move it twice a year when I make the Colorado/Germany 6-month emigration. I cut two wine-bottle corks in half to make four cylindrical spacers, each 1" high. The MacBook sits on them so I have a 1" ventilation space under it at all times. Measuring temperatures with iStat Pro dashboard app, right now it's reading HDD: 34ºC, CPU: 62ºC, Heatsinks A & B: 58ºC each. At night, I do not shut the machine down; I put it to sleep so all my interrupted work will still be on the screen when I wake the MacBook up in the morning. I reboot it about once a week, and I do that with a restart; I do not power it down. I turn the computer off with Shut Down... before I have to move it. The ONLY time I'll power the computer down using the On/Off button is when the system totally locks up. For what it's worth, my background is Electrical Engineering, and I've developed a healthy respect for hardware so I don't knowingly mistreat my MacBook. Processsor: 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory: 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM New HDD: 500 GB Seagate [/QUOTE]

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