Thursday, April 29, 2010

Atleast I'm not alone

PC Authority's article have began to get attention. I found from Gizmodo's comments many other struggling with overheating problem. Core i7 MacBook Pro Could Make Water Boil

"I'm really not surprised as of just yesterday I got my 2.53GHz Core2Duo MBP up to 205°F or around 96°C while touring around lower manhattan in Google Earth with 3D buildings and all." -RubberShoes

"my spring 2008 15" mbp on a bad day will run up to nearly 110C on the processor." -Mike Karthäuser

"I just ran Cinebench on my two week old i7 MacBook Pro 15" with fairly similar results to the PCAuthority test. On the OpenGL test, the CPU hit 80 degrees C with fans running at minimum (~2000rpm). The CPU test had the CPU temp peaking at 100 degrees C before the fans kicked in to ~4000rpm and brought the temp down to about 95 degrees C." -StoopaTroopa

"My 17" mbp (1st gen with the internal battery) regularly gets to 101-104 degrees Celsius, especially when running flash videos.

Talked to apple store, they said its all cool because the "computer will just shut off if its actually too hot" :-|" -Mat Dwyer

I sure hope that this will collect so much publicity that Apple is forced to act and admit their mistake.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Thursday, April 15, 2010

Still no answer from the engineers

Today I got mail from Apple and they were sorry that I have not yet received answer from them as they have not heard anything from the engineering department.

Why do I have a feeling that there are few sweating fellas in the engineering department thinking "how could we have missed this?!"

Friday, April 2, 2010

Even the full fan speed is not enough

Good thing I did not attend that LAN event I mentioned earlier.
I've tried to play Just Cause 2 demo but my MacBook Pro sets itself to suspend after I've played about 20 minutes. HWMonitor told me that CPU was 111°C and NVIDIA 9600M GT 103°C just before screen went black.

Only way to prevent this happening is to raise the computer few centimeters from the table and add external fan to blow cool air towards the enclosure. Sounds really pro solution for a Pro laptop?

CPU throttling sure is annoying but computer constantly shutting down due to overheating is more frustrating than lowered CPU frequency.

I've called Apple to inform this new symptom. Let's see if this is a feature too?