Macbook Pro 15" Mid-2015 Inside-Out Cleaning & Thermal Paste Renewal

[lememoire]

Dear all,

I have been using a Macbook Pro 15" mid-2015 since August 2015. It has top specs like 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. Big Sur is the OS.

Since I bought it, I have never cleaned the dust inside or renewed its thermal paste. Fanny shows CPU temperature around 40 Celcius when I have only two tabs open on Safari. The temperature increases with heavier workload and probably I have seen maximum close to 90 Celcius when I ran multiple apps such Photoshop with Safari etc...

I believe the laptop needs a cleaning inside and renewal of thermal paste. I don't know how long it will last without any problems if I start using it heavily for long time periods.

I live in UK and consulted with couple of local computer repair shops about cleaning and thermal paste renewal. One quoted around £70 and another did around £120.

I checked some videos and guides about how I can do it myself but I am not sure. I'm not really familiar with it and fear that I may "break it down while fixing it".

I really need some advice. I'm not short of such amount of money but I'm not employed at the moment.

Thank you.

 

[satcomer]

Find a computer repair ship in suburb and tell them the age and it need a clean out and new terms paste applied! I would go more on reputation of the shop than price!