The new name? The Menopausal MacBook. I'm off to Macs4U immediately. Bill
On 28/03/2012, at 12:42 PM, Michael Hawkins wrote: > Once upon a time, in the G3 PowerBook epoch, Apple laptops seemed > indestructible and lasted for ever and a day. My G3 did me very well indeed > from April 2000 until late 2009. > > Sadly, I've started to suspect that the modern MacBook Pro didn't inherit the > longevity gene. The motherboard 17" laptop I bought in 2008 died without > warning shortly after the extended AppleCare expired, and the impression I > have is that Ronni for example has had more than one laptop suffer from logic > board faults. > > So Bill, to continue the analogy in human terms, it may be that your computer > has reached that stage in life in which it suffers hot flushes. > > Regards, > > Michael. > > On 28/03/2012, at 11:55 AM, Bill Parker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> My Macbook Pro - about 18 months old is now exhbiting odd fan behaviour. >> During normal word processing/emailing etc. no fan. >> >> After a few moment of say iView, the fans come on and by then the machine >> has heated and feels quite hot to touch. >> >> Whats happening here? >> >> Bill >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Settings & Unsubscribe - <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug>
