I have a Mid-2009 Macbook Air. I find that Firefox or FLV movie playing sends the temperature up high pretty quick and then the infamous kernel_task process starts taking up all the CPU (it's trying to cool the CPU down I think). Have no idea how to solve this sigh!

hmmm.. i recently thought of reformating my mac to clean out everything to get a brand new feel.. but i cant seem to find anything much about it on the net, why is that so? is there like another solution rather than re-installing the OS?

onyx ?

I did a test to compare having the thermapak and without... using CPUTest with big-FFT's and 2 instances (coz dual core). 11 minutes each. fan running at max approx 5900RPM.
Guess what? No difference in the reported temperatures. Haha.

Nevertheless, while playing COD4, there was an obvious difference in the temperature felt on the aluminium case and keyboard. CPUTest only stresses the CPU and RAM but does nothing to the GPU. With all 3 maxed out during gaming, it gets real hot. While this isn't any scientific test, at least I could feel it and I'm satisfied.

no difference at all ?? logiclly there should be.. none is kinda weird. i guess apple is doing a good job at cooling the macbook.

This post has been edited by preducer: Jul 28 2009, 01:28 PM

Yeah no difference. I was a little surprised as well. But then I guess the hottest chips aren't directly connected "thermally" to the outer aluminium shell. The outer aluminium shell gets indirectly heated up via convection. The Thermapak however does a good job at cooling this outer shell which should in turn make the internals slightly cooler if the test was given more time to run and with a graphically+CPU intensive test.

I guess if I repeated this test with COD4 for an hour each I should be able to see a quantifiable difference. Speaking from having tried playing COD4 without the thermapak before, it does get scarily HOT and I don't feel like trying it again hahaha. With the thermapak it's much more bearable.

Have you tried thermapak with the MB on for 24hours? What is the average temperature that your MB is showing with the thermapak?
I'm quite interested in the thermapak but not too sure of the durability as I keep my MB on for 24/7.

If your MB isn't doing anything intensive for 24 hours it shouldn't get hot. Thus having a thermapak or not doesn't matter.

What are doing on ur MB that you need to run it 24/7? Torrent?

If ever I need to torrent (not very often), I do it on my desktop, not my lappies. Just don't fancy the idea of leaving my MBP on 24/7/365

sometimes it's for torrenting.. sometimes I just leave it on standby..
I've seen reviews on the thermapak showing that there is only approx 4~6deg C improvements from the notebook point of view but if it's on the lap, then there is a great difference..

from reviews i've read, it should reduce atleast 8c-10c

oh. standby? you mean sleep? I wouldn't call that leaving it on. haha. I never shut down my mac unless i'm cleaning it. Always sleep only.

I'm still hesitating whether I should get it or not..

Anyone knows any store which have two macbook pro 13" 2.53ghz in stock?
I've checked Pavillion and KLCC , they told me they dont have any stock left.

well the main reason why i got it is because i game on my mac as well.

@don8ld
Try gardens or midvalley.

Okay thanks !

i cant recall but i read sumwhere that the unibody macbooks (and pros) and the new ipods with mic support uses a different kind of headphone port. instead of just two 'rings' for left n right channel, they have three...the extra one for the mic. somehow this port is slightly loose than normal. when plugging in my headphone to my mbp, i also have to adjust the jack sometimes to get it to sound right. i didnt have to when i plug it into my 1st gen ipod touch (old port, no mic) and also my previous 2006 mbp.

While playing game with the Thermapak, do you still feel the heat from the body of the MB or is there a significant heat reduction, especially on the palm rest next to the huge touchpad?

has anyone got beachballing very frequently on their 13" uMBP?
i got this annoyed me since i got my 1st time mbp software updates, and i have forgotten to unchecked the firmware 1.7 so just let it installed and now i have tried to reset the PRAM and it didnt work on my case. can we install/replace the previous firmware on my HDD?

problem solve... sorry.. remove my post

This post has been edited by elfreakz: Jul 30 2009, 11:52 AM