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Repasting a MacBook

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263 points speckx | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 12:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.205s | source
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zdw ◴[11 Jul 25 15:31 UTC] No.44533320[source]▶
If you have any of the Air models which lack fans, there's a common hack of putting thermal pads between the CPU heatspreader and case, effectively turning the bottom case into a large heatsink, and giving your system a longer maximum performance before throttling.

The downsides is that this makes the bottom of the case quite hot on a place you can touch, but putting a plastic hardshell over the entire laptop deals with that, and also gives protection.

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ianferrel ◴[11 Jul 25 15:48 UTC] No.44533536[source]▶
Making the bottom case a heatsink and then putting a plastic insulator around it seems to defeat the purpose of the whole attempt?
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fph ◴[11 Jul 25 17:13 UTC] No.44534686[source]▶
Not to mention paying premium for an extra-thin computer and then making it thicker with a plastic hardshell.
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adastra22 ◴[12 Jul 25 10:35 UTC] No.44540979[source]▶
How is buying the cheapest Mac laptop paying a premium?
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gruez ◴[12 Jul 25 13:07 UTC] No.44541804[source]▶
Still a premium compared to bargain basement windows laptops.
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1. adastra22 ◴[13 Jul 25 00:07 UTC] No.44546330[source]▶
Which is an apples to oranges comparison on two fronts. On software of course because they can’t run the same things, and on hardware because a MacBook Air does not run on budget specs.