17.11.2008 19:50 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

what's the good in replacing thermal paste on your rev A MacBook Pro?

We already mentioned a few times before how Apple , if mean for a lot of things, was generous with thermal paste in his notebooks. In this case, if more certainly is better than less, too much paste can also result as an issue in cooling components. Julian had that problem: I own a 2ghz MacBook Pro 2ghz rev A and it's a real oven: one can't keep it on his knees without burning himself and the keyboard gets hotter than Hell. Since a few weeks, I noticed graphic bugs and the computer was freezing because the fans wouldn't speed up when needed. SMCFanControl helped me solved a part of this problem but here's the guilty one: After a whole week-end following this guide for MBP's disassembling, I applied a small amount of Artic Silver themal paste on the th

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