Certain models of MacBook Pro have problems with overheating, the fans included by the company Apple Lossless Audio CODEC (ALAC), in the product or being ineffective. In this idea, during intensive use, a MacBook Pro can generate a temperature of up to 100 degrees at the base of the case, more precisely in the location of its processor, which is covered by a fan.
Unfortunately, the Apple company did not solve this problem over the years, so some users found it on their own a solution. It is not quite so aesthetic and not at all advisable, but it cuts the operating temperatures of the MacBook Pros in half by generating a space through which the hot air can be evacuated.
With a 1/16” bit, we drilled holes in the bottom case, under the fans (we figured out where the blades of the fan were exposed based on the dust pattern stuck to the inside of the bottom case). The speed holes worked: The boot chime range. The screen glowed. The fans blew.
As you can see from the images, we are talking about drilling the casing in the location of the fans, which exhaust the hot air more efficiently. After drilling the casing, the operating temperatures of the MacBook Pros dropped from 80-100 degrees to 40-50 degrees, so we are talking about a dramatic improvement in the user experience.
I cracked open the back of my laptop, disconnected all eleven connectors and three heat sinks from the logic board, and turned the oven up to 340º F. I put my $900 part on a cookie sheet and baked it for seven nerveracking minutes… After it cooled, I reapplied thermal paste, put it all back together, and cheered when it booted. It ran great for the next eight months. Temperatures averaged in the 60s and 70s C—although recently, they started creeping up again.
If the first method seems strange, well some users have taken more desperate measures to solve the problems of their own Macs. More precisely, some had to "bake" the logic board of the MacBook Pro in the oven at temperatures of 170° Celsius for 7 minutes, the method bringing non-functional MacBook Pros back to life.
To be honest, it's quite amazing to see what some users have to do to have a product of several thousand dollars functional, the Apple company not being able to solve problems of this kind over the years.
