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MacBook overheating? clear plastic covering the rear vent

Postby spartan484 » Sat 01 Jul, 2006 10:15 am

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303848


Some MacBook computers may appear to be running too warm, with the fan running consistently and heat emanating from the top and/or the bottom of the computer.

If this happens with your MacBook, check the rear vent of the MacBook to make sure it's not blocked.

Some MacBooks may have left the factory with a thin piece of clear plastic covering the rear vent. This is used in the factory to prevent dust from getting into your computer. If your MacBook has the plastic still over the vent, simply remove and discard it.

If your MacBook does not have the thin piece of clear plastic over the vent but is running warm, see article 30612, "Apple Notebooks: Operating Temperature."

original subject: "Macbook overheating? "OOPS" says Apple"
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Postby Don_HH2K » Sat 01 Jul, 2006 10:20 am

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Mine isn't any different. So far I've seen a few laptops that have a tendency to heat up quite a bit.
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Postby spartan484 » Sat 01 Jul, 2006 10:22 am

Don_HH2K wrote:
Mine isn't any different. So far I've seen a few laptops that have a tendency to heat up quite a bit.


Not a design problem, they jsut forgot to unblock the fan's exhaust port.
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Postby Don_HH2K » Sat 01 Jul, 2006 10:29 am

That's exactly the problem: whoever designed mine stuck the fan exhaust port under the laptop. Any design or engineering course would tell somebody not to do that, since a laptop would most likely have something under it.
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Postby J-M » Mon 03 Jul, 2006 2:10 pm

This is, in fact, bad news to the Apple Computers.

How is it possible that they forgot to remove these small pieces of plastic, or how dirty is the manufacturing department. In fact, this sounds odd.
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