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This site will help collect and show the temperatures of Apple Macintosh computers using the new processors by Intel. All new computers that haven't faced the trail of time will have problems and issues that can make users mad and furious. As with the new MacBook Pro machines where were, and still are, problems with heat dissipation. After scouting forums and help sites for information about what temperatures I can expect on a new MacBook, but that turned out to be harder and more scattered than I first imagined. That's the main motive behind this site and it didn't take too long to setup as I had the base code handy from another site. -

Machine profile

Profile details:
Added by: , 2007-12-07
Introduction date: Late-2006 model (2006-11-08)
SKU/order number: MA700LL/A
Base model: Apple MacBook C2D 2.00GHz White
Serial number: 4H648XXXXXX
Manufacturing info: Assembled: November, 2006, Week 48
Plant: China
Whine issue / Moo issue: No / No

System spesifications:
CPU frequency: 2.00 GHz
Memory: 1 GB
Storage drive: Fujitsu 80 GB 5400 RPM
OS version: Mac OS X 10.5.1
Boot ROM version: 00A5.B07
SMC system version: 1.13f3

Temperatures:
Ambient/room temperature: 21 °C

Recorded temperatures on stock cooling:
Idle (<5%) temperature: 49 °C
Load (100%) temperature: 84 °C
Drive temperature: 32 °C

Comments:
HDD Temp taken from IStat Pro, entry in Hardware profiler stopped being read after a few minutes (possibly when disc spun down).

One oddity I have seen is that using the new Apple Wireless Keyboard with the MacBook causing the temp to idle higher and cause the fan to spin up from 1800 to around 2200 at around 60C. This doesn't happen when keyboard turned off. NOTE for this entry I turned the keyboard off but Bluetooth was on.

One last thing after about 5 minutes of hammering the CPU my Wireless N connection (2.4ghz) dropped out.
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