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Solution to MacBook Pro heating issues
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Join Date: Oct 2006
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This is no joke guys, I have been using my MacBook Pro 1.1 with this simple program for the past 2 days, and I have seen huge reduction in the temperature both in CoreDuoTemp as well as the underbody of the notebook. I am finally able to use my Macbook pro as a laptop, not a tabletop. The normal usage temperature reduced from 60C to 33-37C, and under heavy use it still remains under 60C (all temperatures are from CoreDuoTemp). The battery life should be effected but cooler temp is more important to me than battery life.
The SMC.DMG contains scripts to change the fan RPM from the default 1000 to upto 6000 (I am using the 4000rpm script). the terminal can also be used to make these changes manually. FanSpeed.DMG is another application that uses SMC but apparently sets the values at boot time, but I have not tested it.
Original post:
Apple - Support - Discussions - STICKY! THE Ultimate Self Cooling ...
Here is a download link to these files:
SMC.DMG:
SMC.DMG
FanSpeed.DMG
FANSPEED.DMG
I tried writing a simple GUI for this program, but since i have never programmed on a mac, its hard to get started suddenly. Hopefully somebody will write a simple GUI that others can use...
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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True! I am aslo using this script and the machine is much cooler. 32C with Adium, Mail.app and Safari.
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Link to Apple discussion post doesn't work.
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PowerBook 15" 1.25G/1G/80G | iMac G5 17" 1.6G/1.5G/300G | MacBook Pro 15" CD2.0G/1.5G/120G | MacBook C2D 2.2G/4G/160G
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I finally had some breakthrough learning more about programming in cocoa, I had some trouble getting the C code from the SMC app to work in obj-c. Does anybody have links to good tutorials? I have good experience in programming, mostly windows, but now I am switcher in programming too.
Anyways, I am halfway through writing a simple app for the Fan controller. Hopefully I will be done soon, hard to learn something new while working on a fulltime job and also preparing for GRE.
Program feature requests are welcome too. I will be posting more about the program once I am done...
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