ouch... it's really almost 300 bucks for a 60W power adaptor. I hope mine holds up.
Apparently a bulk of the problems happen at where the wire connects to the magnetic connector. I remember reading somewhere that apple have fixed this FOC in some cases. Are you sure yours failed right at the power adaptor itself and not the cable?

basura, you can check out this thread as well. http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/960634/+40
Hopefully you'll find something useful.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

can still feel the heat... but significantly reduced.
the palm rest doesn't get that hot... it's the top left corner that gets heated up the most. and you can also feel some of the heat coming from the underneath the keyboard at the usual position you play FPS games (wasd keys). coz this area is where most of the heat is generated and where the fan and heatsink is located.
underneath the left palmrest is just the battery, whereas underneath the right palmrest is the HDD.

^thanks for that link. mine's perfect

how bad is the scratch? which part got scratched? can you bear with it?
I haven't checked out a MacPro really closely yet, but I believe they are anodized aluminium. NOT painted. So you can't paint it to conceal a scratch.

Thanks for bringing up the immersion sensor. Having my first apple product, I'm not aware they had that. Some research showed that they had put several in the macbook, notably under a few of the keys in the keyboard.

http://www.hardmac.com/news/2009/07/16/mor...ensors-of-apple

The thing that freaks me in out apple's policy is this:


We live in Malaysia. And typically our humidity level is at least 70% R.H. EDIT: to as much as 100% in prolonged heavy rain. Apple's operating specs say up to 90% non-condensing. High humidity alone will turn the indicators pink in due time as shown in the above article. Plus, every week I shut down my MBP and clean it with a damp cloth. Thats more humidity for you.

Condensation? Another whole new topic. Wearers of glasses will know.

I don't know how tolerant is Apple towards triggered immersion sensors in humid Malaysia, but having read how in a worse-case-scenario someone had their warranty void just because ONE sensor was triggered when it in fact has not been in contact with water.

The above reasons plus the fact that spilling anything on your keyboard, however minor it may be, may have serious consequences; makes me consider getting a keyboard protector.

Any input on the above?

This post has been edited by MetalZone: Aug 10 2009, 04:21 PM

Well I seriously hope so. iphone users have not been very lucky so far with many users worldwide having their warranty voided because their immersion sensors were triggered without actually being immersed.
I avoided keyboard protectors so far for the same reason you mentioned.

OSX dock on your sofa! Pillows in the shape of the icons of finder, dashboard, itunes, photo booth, iphoto and ichat.
http://throwboy.com/
It's so cool but too expensive for me.

At home I use it plugged in all the time, even at night coz I never shut down my mac, always sleep.

I'm not sure what you mean here, but in case, note that the MiniDisplay Port to DVI convertor from Apple outputs only the digital signal, a.k.a. DVI-I. You need DVI-D which has an analog signal as well to be able to convert to VGA. So if you try to plug in a commonly available DVI-D to VGA convertor into Apple's MiniDisplay Port to DVI-I converter you will get no signal.

I didn't bother with all those protection. A sleeve is all I use, and slot into my deuter backpack while inside the sleeve when I need to take it out.

Anybody found a suitable wrist rest for the MBP13"?
With the MBP placed on the thermapak it's quite raised and makes using the trackpad bad for ergonomics (don't wanna get carpal tunnel syndrome). I'm using the neoprene wrist rest from my Corepad for now.

Regardless what people say about not needing partitioning on macs, I have my home folder relocated to a dedicated partition. I like it this way. HFS+ filesystem isn't as good as you think.

I think Office 2003 should be no problem? But as you said, the formatting "lari" a bit from your experience. I guess it happens la.

From experience, if you are used to Office 2007 and you use a lot of their new features, you may be disappointed with Office for Mac 2008. I noticed quite a fair bit of features in Office 2007 are missing in Office 2008. To note a few off my head, icon based filters doesn't work in excel; the excellent drawing features with gridlines and stuff in Word 2007 is nonexistent; equations are also missing in word. I use these features a lot after upgrading to Office 2007 and not having them in Office 2008 is very disappointing to me. If you're coming from earlier versions of Office then you wouldn't miss these features.

I noticed this myself too during the early days of owning my MBP. But now I don't feel it anymore though. I never noted/noticed the difference with and without plugging in. However, my brother and my mother still feels this "vibration" (when plugged in, never tested without). Perhaps I got used to it that it doesn't affect me at all now.

Also during the early days I also felt an occasional electric shock from the front edges of my MBP (plugged in). Now I never notice it.