FragTek
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Yup yup, I tore her all the way down to the bare aluminum case today out of shear boredom! To be honest, my MBP didn't seem to run as hot to really warrant needing to tear it all the way down and reapply TIC but I did it anyway 
From the pix you can tell that Apple is still caking on the TIC like a DQ parfait 
It seems like it'd be so simple to tell the guys on the assembly line to take it easy on the TIC but they've obviously decided not to do that as of yet.
It was a fun project taking it all apart. This is the first laptop that I've ever completely dissasembled down to the frame. A few parts were a bit shaky pulling out all of the super tiny plugs, etc. Everything seems very well built though, I didn't have any problems at all (thank God!! i'm glad that I didnt end up with a $3000 paper weight...).
After applying the new TIC my temps dropped about 20*c under load. It's quite clear that they're using FARRRRR to much TIC on the chips.
Have a looksy @ the pix:
:wavey:
From the pix you can tell that Apple is still caking on the TIC like a DQ parfait It seems like it'd be so simple to tell the guys on the assembly line to take it easy on the TIC but they've obviously decided not to do that as of yet.It was a fun project taking it all apart. This is the first laptop that I've ever completely dissasembled down to the frame. A few parts were a bit shaky pulling out all of the super tiny plugs, etc. Everything seems very well built though, I didn't have any problems at all (thank God!! i'm glad that I didnt end up with a $3000 paper weight...).
After applying the new TIC my temps dropped about 20*c under load. It's quite clear that they're using FARRRRR to much TIC on the chips.
Have a looksy @ the pix:
:wavey:
and take more pics
