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    MBP 14 8/14 ,fans kicking in at 55°

    Pretty surprised to see this.under a rather light use (downloading stuff mainly) ,the fans to up to 2500rpm,which isn't high,but still,is this an expected behavior ? i must say it certainly doesn't happen all the time ,but it happens,and i find it weird since afaik,apple never usually lets the...
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    Really Confused with the Proper Way to Get Rid of Dust from the Inside of My MacBook

    Hi there everyone, I've got a MacBook 4,1 (early 2008) which hasn't been cleaned on the inside since I bought it, yet it has surprisingly survived 9 years of heavy usage. Planning to upgrade the ram and get an SSD drive, but before doing that, I want to clean it cause I've grown tired of...
  3. basilt

    What is the purpose of Ambient board sensor

    hello, my mac is in an environment without heating and recently the temperature dropped down to 19 degrees celcious. i have a g5 2ghz DC, and when i push the start button it does not make chime at all, starts up, then top and back fans speed up fast, very noisy and thats it. Some days ago...
  4. SteveJobzniak

    Warning: Bugs in Sierra which affect all MacBook Pro 2010 models

    EDIT: GREAT NEWS 2017-01-26, APPLE HAS RELEASED A BUGFIX IN 10.12.3: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/warning-bugs-in-sierra-which-affect-all-macbook-pro-2010-models.2000559/page-3#post-24237506 Old post (most of this is still relevant too): -------------- Siri stupidly requires the...
  5. pixxelpusher

    Mac Pro 2009 boot problem.. but then it booted?

    Ok so I just had a weird problem with my Mac Pro 2009 that I spent 6hrs trying to fix, but am still confused. What happened was that I wanted to feed a SATA data cable up under the PSU and into the DVD drive cavity (which I have empty) as I'm putting a SSD drive up there and connecting to the...