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Wondering if people have had any good/bad experiences with cooling pads. I plan to use this for some moderate gaming and I feel like it would be a worthy investment to get one of these, both for noise and for longevity.
I have a early 2009 17 inch Macbook Pro. I usually have the laptop connected to an external monitor with the lid closed.
When the lid is closed, the laptop somtimes becomes very noisy, especially when using heavy applications.
That is why I am thinking of buying an external cooling pad.
Will that help? And if so, which cooling pad would you advise?
Can anyone recommend some pads like Wacom? And what are some good uses for them, I've never used one but ive been looking at one for maybe something like cad?
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Mac Pro
My Macbook Pro under Windows XP runs hot (CPU @ 60-70, GPU @ 80-90) after just 10 minutes of gaming. The fans ramp up by themselves, yes, and after I quit the game, temps are back down within 10 minutes.
My question is, would a cooling pad be a worthwhile investment to cool it down? (I will be gaming for around 2 - 3 hours daily)
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MacUnibody(2010) , Ipod (5th gen Nano), Mac OS X (10.6.4)
I'm looking to replace my current external drive with a newer, larger drive. My current drive is connected via Firewire and houses my iTunes library, plus movie files, documents, etc. I'm trying to decide between a portable drive (the Western Digital Passport, for example), and another desktop drive (like say, this one [URL:..]Questions I have:
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Right now it's looking like this:
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Currently running:
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Firefox, 5 tabs open.
It's using the intel graphics card right now.
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MacBook Pro
Firstly I need a bag for it. I was reading through some posts here today with lots of suggestions on brands of bags. The ones that caught my eye were crumpler bags. Does anyone have any experience of these, are they of a decent quality and if so could you recommend one that would be suitable for the MBP 15"?
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Anyone have any recommendations on a good passive cooling system for a Mac Pro with two ATI Radeon 3870s? I was thinking about the Arctic Cooling Accelero S1 Rev. 2 (V2) Passive VGA Cooler. Do these things really work and how well compared to the really really really loud fans that are currently on my cards?
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
where can i find the cooling vents.i dont see one
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3), purchased 1 month ago
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