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New Macbook Pro Unibody Overheat???

DJCheLu 11:48 PM - 14 March, 2009
I bought the macbook pro 15" everything stock spec for the unibody. I have a 320 gb hd and 92gb left on it. I use high performance graphics setting, VSL buffer at max 2gb and quality at medium. I was djing last night using display port to dvi apple adapter, then a dvi to hdmi cable to TV. I noticed after an hour of video djing the videos started getting choppy, fans were at 4500 and temp read 79C.

In the beginning of the night all my videos ran flawlessly. SOOOOO Heat issue?? I have never noticed this problem before until last night but then again i always dj without looking at the video screen.

More HD space or heat issue? I turn the fans up to highest setting i think it was 6000rpm in smcfan control but by the time i noticed my videos were choppy i was done in ten minutes so i didnt notice a change in choppyness.
lvmez 12:16 AM - 15 March, 2009
more hd space in my opinion. i have the unibody as well and have never had this problem. i keep about 500 videos and mp3's on my mbp but i have about 200gb available.
DJCheLu 7:44 PM - 15 March, 2009
hmmmmmmm i guess im going to look for a firewire external since i dont want to void my warranty
nemix 9:48 PM - 15 March, 2009
New macbooks harddrives can be changed easily without voiding warranty tho, or thought I read that...
DJCheLu 6:33 AM - 16 March, 2009
I will look into that thanks :)
Totem 4:22 PM - 16 March, 2009
And make sure your laptop is not suffocating, lying in some clothing or whatever. Sometimes i put my laptop on a jacket during gigs for stability and stuff, but ventilation suffers. But you probably thought of that.
As a last resort, put a bag of ice on that sucker. When the club is crazy warm, ventilation doesn't matter since it's hot everywhere. At high-end places you can just order the staff to bring you fresh bags of ice every ten minutes.
Be warned, however, that you must never turn off your machine while it's lying on a bunch of ice. Condensation will build up inside your laptop and you'll risk frying it when you turn it back on.
Joshua Carl 4:35 PM - 16 March, 2009
Im no steve jobs but Id say 92 Gigs free is MORE than enough free space
but, like Ive mentioned in other posts that WD 500 800fw is working great:
Watchwww.youtube.com

do you have the 2/4/8 gb of ram?

like totem said, make sure your fans vents are clear and open.

you could look into a powered cool pad, but beware.
in a dusty environment they direct dust right into you intake ports.
just keep it in mind, because it means u need to clean more often.

also, your enviorment.
is it 80 degrees to start with in your club.... boots are notoriously hot
alot of places stack the amps right in the booth with you.

a friend of mine actually brings a small clip on fan everywhere becuase the room he does per usual has a booth that hit about 85 once those amps kick in.
DJCheLu 1:08 AM - 17 March, 2009
i have 4gb of ram and i too thought 92gb of space free should be more then enough. I was actually looking into a lacie rugged 500gb firewire external my only problem is i organize all my music and videos via itunes and splitting HD's gets complicated :(. I guess i will have to do what i did on my pc and just run all videos and music off an external and always keep a back up duplicate drive...... Thought i got away from all the junk when i switched to Mac. It is so nice having it all on the internal.
DJCheLu 1:11 AM - 17 March, 2009
Oh yea and i dont see any vents on this macbook lol so im confused.
Joshua Carl 1:19 AM - 17 March, 2009
the fan must get its air from somewhere...or else its just cirrculating hot air
Joshua Carl 1:31 AM - 17 March, 2009
found this:

"The design of the new Macbook Pro models uses a "unibody". Basically the entire computer (minus the display) is machined from a single piece of aluminium. The fans inside suck in air from the display hinge using a VERY small gap and circulate air round the interior. I think the fact that the computer is made of metal allows heat to escape through the material much more readily than plastic"

so, the figured I guess aluminum is a very fast cooling metal that through conduction rather then convection was the best way to cool a laptop.
well, after looking around....it might not be the case.
common thought is macs operate 50c to 100c, hotter than PCs.
I guess this is normal?

but google mac book pro overheat, and you will see you are NOT alone
DJCheLu 1:51 AM - 17 March, 2009
Hmmmmm i do see the slots now. Well im going to run the fans at higher speed using the smcfan control when djing and not touch the internal hd like i had wanted just in case a fan fails or something. Still have 2.7 years on the applecare warranty. Thank you all for the input