apple's macbook introduced

[mshan]

How quiet is the fan (and hard drive) in the new MacBook?

I found a video describing a mooing sound at Google Video:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...0159&q=macbook

When it's not ramping up quickly, the fan actually seems quite smooth and of high quality. What do others think?

 

[kugino]

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Originally Posted by mshan How quiet is the fan (and hard drive) in the new MacBook? I found a video describing a mooing sound at Google Video: http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...0159&q=macbook When it's not ramping up quickly, the fan actually seems quite smooth and of high quality. What do others think?

when the fan's on full blast, you can definitely hear it. it should only blast when you've loaded the CPU to full-time use, so it's mostly a non-issue for me unless i'm using CPU-intensive apps.

the HD is audible when i try to listen for it, but it's faint. i've heard a similar mooing sound but never to the point that i found it distracting...

i guess my point is that you can find things not to like if you look closely enough...the HD is a non-issue, IMO, but the fan can get loud if on full blast...

 

[afireinside]

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Originally Posted by AlanY You might want to add this one, from O'Reilly: http://www.macdevcenter.com/lpt/a/6605 Even though it's mainly about the Macbook Pro, it's a counterpoint to a lot of the noise that's been floating around on SomethingAwful about the thermal paste. Looks like the thermal paste might be a non-issue after all, though who's to say really for sure.

An IR temp reader isn't useful at all. What matters is the actual CPU temp. Just a glance at the pic shows how terrible the stock thermal paste application is.

 

[Wodgy]

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Originally Posted by afireinside An IR temp reader isn't useful at all. What matters is the actual CPU temp. Just a glance at the pic shows how terrible the stock thermal paste application is.

The stock thermal paste application in the picture is fine. It's excessive in some early laptop pictures, but not in that one.

There is a lot of misinformation out there about this. People always seem to refer to the Arctic Silver website as gospel on proper thermal paste application, but in doing so they usually ignore one critical point: Arctic Silver contains silver particles in suspension, and it's thus highly capacitive. Overapplication of a capacitive substance like Artic Silver (spread beyond the surface of the die) can potentially interfere with the high speed operation of the leads, making a processor unstable. That's the real reason the pictures on the Artic Silver website are so ultra conservative with the paste application. Conventional chemical thermal paste is fine, applied in reasonable amounts, as long as it can be squeezed out when the heat sink is buttoned down. Huge amounts are not fine, but in a situation where a single heatsink plate is being used to cover two dissimilar ICs (both the CPU and GPU), those ICs are not necessarily coplanar, and using a decent amount of chemical heatsinking compound is appropriate.

 

[kaidomac]

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Originally Posted by kugino kaidomac, have you seen the booq mamba s bag yet? it looks nice, but for $100 i want to make sure it's what i want. i'm also waiting around for crumpler to update their line of bags for the MB, but i don't know how long they'll take...many of the bags won't be available until july/august, which is a long wait for me...i want to pick up a bag now...hmmm...

No, not yet. It wasn't supposed to ship until the 29th...now it's in stock. Sweet! I'll post a review when I get it.