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How old is it? My Macbook (which I am currently using) is 2 years old and only got a screen backlight problem (one vertical strip is dimmer)... What have you done to hurt yours so badly? I mean... I've had mine at 90ºC for more than two hours several times, while doing calculations (before I got to use my office's computer)

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Impressive that your MacBook worked at 90ºC -- how'd YOU make out? (That's 194ºF, so I suspect it was a typo.)

I assume that that's the CPU temperature, not the ambient temperature. If so, the number would be illustrating that the machine appear to be damaged by excessive CPU temperature.

As sorbus points out, this is CPU temp, not the overall computer. The base was at around 45, I think.

I guess it was an overheating damage, but could not know. Since then, I've avoided CPU intensive things from happening on it, and the usual CPU temp is now around 60º. Which looks pretty high, but manageable.

I considered buying a lower platform with cooling (they sell it in some computer stores, plates with fans on them) but gave up.

I have no idea. I have had 2 hard drive replacements in the past. The 2nd time they told me I might have a defective machine but I had a paper to write than night and they could only give me a hard drive so that I could have the laptop back. It's almost a 3 year old machine.

Do you have SMC fan control? You want to avoid that much heat. Propping a laptop on altoids tins might help a little. Also you want to avoid flexing the logic board, i.e. avoid holding the laptop by just one corner.

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