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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...
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    • dust bunnies fan cleaning fans fans spinning macbook macbook 13" 2008
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: MacBook
  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...
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    • ambient board sensor fans spinning ppc g5 mac
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: PowerPC Macs
  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...
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    • boot problem fans spinning gpu ok flashing green mac pro 2009
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Mac Pro
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