Cooling the MacBook Pro

MTWest

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My MacBook Pro gets quite hot sometimes, so I'm wondering if any other MBP owners here have invested in either some sort of laptop stand to combat this a bit or went even further and got some sort of cooling device which sits under the MBP? To be honest, are either of these things necessary? Should I just ignore the lil' bit of extra heat under my left hand? Cheers.
 
I would leave it, laptops do get hot and MacBook Pros in particular get pretty toasty.

If you want a stand, have a look at the Griffin Elevator.
 
Concorde Rules said:
My left hand isn't that hot at all and thats with the 7200RPM HD :/

Idle CPU temps are 40-42C and load is 65-70C...

Mines just sitting on a wooden desk.
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Hmm.. those are about the same temps I get. I guess it's a matter of my left hand adjusting to the heat then! Guess I have nothing to worry about :p
 
I was concerned about heat and bought a Coolermaster Notepal W1, which my MBP lives on when its on my desk, It probably really doesnt do much good, but gives me peace of mind knowing 3 very quiet fans are blowing cool air underneath the laptop.

I can run some temp experiments if you like this weekend... leave it folding for a few hours and monitor temps then switch fans on and see if they drop at all.
 
I wouldn't worry about it. My MacBook regularly gets up to 87C when the CPU is working hard. I used to worry but I've left it at that level for days on end encoding videos and its been fine.

I'm sure if the hardware couldn't take high temps Apple would have designed them differently.
 
Ive burned my leg on the bottom of my 17" MBP with 7200rpm HD.

It gets hot but i wouldnt worry...its normal aparently unles you have the newer C2D chips announced a couple of weeks ago.

Look what happened to my mate James - http://img34.picoodle.com/img/img34/4/3/11/f_DSC79281m_4a003fd.jpg

They arent sure what happened but they think the fan got jammed and the CPU sparked and did this
 
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