aftermarket bottom cover with vent holes for mbp 13

[iamthedudeman]

No one says it wouldn't work. Only that you seem to miss the fact and a few others miss the fact that running the MacBook Pro 10 C higher that it will have no effect on performance. How is it benifitting you?

Apple engineers are smarter than you on how the machine should and should not be run. They built and designed it.

They know how much the machine can take and thought this all out already before they were put to market. They have billions in cash. Their engineers have taken this into account. I know for a fact that they stress test these machines. HP does it, Acer, and so on.

If it is shutting down, get it checked out, you have a faulty machine. Putting holes into the bottom will not fix a faulty machine. I do marathon coding and video editing at 10 hours at a time. Run the CPU to the thermal limit. Not once has my machine shut off, never.

They run them on a continuous schedule and and high power to see how long they will run to get the thermals down to parameters that are in design limits. That determines what gets put into the machine and what does not. They figured this out already.

If it isn't broke don't fix it.

 

[idufour]

First off, sorry for the reviving a dead tread bit but I just had to drop my two cents in!!!

Being the fact that I think that Apple waste WAY to much time and resources in trying to make their toy's pretty and forgetting things like function I wasn't a bit afraid to take the bottom cover off my MBP and go after it with a drill. I simple used a ruler and a pencil to lay out where the fans where located then drilled 8 8th inch holes the go around the edge of the fan opening and 4 in the center of that circle. This provides 12 8th inch holes right over the fans. The final results........ Yes in fact the computer operates at lower temperatures, big surprise as if logic wouldn't tell you that cooler air will be able to cool better then recycled hot air. Before this mod my MB would not only run hot but actually under heavy use would shut down due to overheating. Since the mod I have pushed even harder on my system running streaming audio, max graphics and constant loads on my CPU with the Temp never rising above 78 - 80 deg C.

Now the only down side that I have found is that once every couple months you do need to drop the bottom cover and used air dusters to blow the fluff out of the fans. while yes this does require you to actually do something besides just stare blankly at your MacBook Pro and pretending to be doing anything of value. For my own opinion it is a mod that is well worth the effort. On a side note I would say, if you lack the willingness to risk trying something due to fear with out reasonable logic then you really need to stop reading any article about how to mod a computer and look for forums that are geared to the lame, lazy and scared. Sorry if I offend anyone but I can't stand when people want to say something isn't going to work just because they a fearful of trying.

Pictures?

 

[idufour]

To the One who ask for flow air patterns, last time I clean my MBP I found this:

That make me realize that I just need a few holes in the right place, so I bought a spare botton cover and drill this holes:

Now my MBP is running 5 or 6 degrees celcius coller in idle than before.

 

[bladerunner2000]

To the One who ask for flow air patterns, last time I clean my MBP I found this:

That make me realize that I just need a few holes in the right place, so I bought a spare botton cover and drill this holes:

Now my MBP is running 5 or 6 degrees celcius coller in idle than before.

Which MBP model is that?

 

[squirrelonfire]

To the One who ask for flow air patterns, last time I clean my MBP I found this:

That make me realize that I just need a few holes in the right place, so I bought a spare botton cover and drill this holes:

Now my MBP is running 5 or 6 degrees celcius coller in idle than before.

Hey man how did you drill those holes? They look PROFESSIONAL. I assume with a drill but I'm sure you did some trick to make it all round and elegant. Thanks in advance.

 

[heyitsjimi]

It does work

First off, sorry for the reviving a dead tread bit but I just had to drop my two cents in!!!

Being the fact that I think that Apple waste WAY to much time and resources in trying to make their toy's pretty and forgetting things like function I wasn't a bit afraid to take the bottom cover off my MBP and go after it with a drill. I simple used a ruler and a pencil to lay out where the fans where located then drilled 8 8th inch holes the go around the edge of the fan opening and 4 in the center of that circle. This provides 12 8th inch holes right over the fans. The final results........ Yes in fact the computer operates at lower temperatures, big surprise as if logic wouldn't tell you that cooler air will be able to cool better then recycled hot air. Before this mod my MB would not only run hot but actually under heavy use would shut down due to overheating. Since the mod I have pushed even harder on my system running streaming audio, max graphics and constant loads on my CPU with the Temp never rising above 78 - 80 deg C.

Now the only down side that I have found is that once every couple months you do need to drop the bottom cover and used air dusters to blow the fluff out of the fans. while yes this does require you to actually do something besides just stare blankly at your MacBook Pro and pretending to be doing anything of value. For my own opinion it is a mod that is well worth the effort. On a side note I would say, if you lack the willingness to risk trying something due to fear with out reasonable logic then you really need to stop reading any article about how to mod a computer and look for forums that are geared to the lame, lazy and scared. Sorry if I offend anyone but I can't stand when people want to say something isn't going to work just because they a fearful of trying.

[doublepost=1539826392][/doublepost]What about cutting a hole in the bottom cover and gluing a screen (on the outside) to cover it ? Keep it elevated. Put a small external fan under it.....
I just bought my 2nd early 2011 17" MBP. The logic board fried on my last one. It's a common problem.
I like these models. I like the screen size. I like the ports. I like the matte screen, hell, I need this stuff.
Using a vacuum on the screen would be easy, even if you had to remove the bottom cover to do it.
I really like the 17" inch. Even used they're very expensive. The jump in price from early 2011 to late 2011 is amazing.
Apple was sued over the logic board problem. They fixed them up until 2016. They don't anymore.
So... how do we keep these puppies from burning up ??? I'm running scared after buying another one.
A reply would be very much appreciated.

 

[ricardo.felix]

A few years later.. any words on drilling holes on the bottom of a MacBook? I am seriously thinking about it...

 

[ndiesel]

No one says it wouldn't work. Only that you seem to miss the fact and a few others miss the fact that running the MacBook Pro 10 C higher that it will have no effect on performance. How is it benifitting you?

Apple engineers are smarter than you on how the machine should and should not be run. They built and designed it.

They know how much the machine can take and thought this all out already before they were put to market. They have billions in cash. Their engineers have taken this into account. I know for a fact that they stress test these machines. HP does it, Acer, and so on.

If it is shutting down, get it checked out, you have a faulty machine. Putting holes into the bottom will not fix a faulty machine. I do marathon coding and video editing at 10 hours at a time. Run the CPU to the thermal limit. Not once has my machine shut off, never.

They run them on a continuous schedule and and high power to see how long they will run to get the thermals down to parameters that are in design limits. That determines what gets put into the machine and what does not. They figured this out already.

If it isn't broke don't fix it.

Apple engineers are smarter than you on how the machine should and should not be run. They built and designed it.

Wrong. Apple engineers are stupid as hell. Every good engineer will agree with me. They make mistakes everywhere all the time.

 

[ndiesel]

A few years later.. any words on drilling holes on the bottom of a MacBook? I am seriously thinking about it...

I will make it on 15 late 2011. Have two 17 late 2011 both fried.