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- MacBook RAM grease
- MacBook RAM greaseWeirdEven if it is harmless, it looks bad.http://opendomain.blogspot.com/GreaseJust bought a MacBook today and upgraded the RAM to 1GB. The two 256MB DIMMs had the same white stains on them. Havent touched them yet though. Any buyers out there?UghJason,My mother bought a refurb 1.83 GHz MacBook several weeks ago....
- Tags: Memory, Notebooks, RAM, Apple MacBook, MacBook RAM grease, MacBook RAM, grease
- Discussion threads 2006-10-04
- MacBook RAM grease
- This picture cropped up from a MacBook user claiming that its thermal grease that leaked onto his RAM strips. ...the thermal grease applied to the internal components has leached into the RAM slots on my motherboard and have soiled the DIMMs with thermal grease. Apple notebook users get anxious over...
- Tags: grease, Apple MacBook, RAM
- Blog posts 2006-10-04
- Thermal grease and the MacBook
- Thermal grease and the MacBookno need to waitI guess we'll have to wait for the die hards to re-apply the grease on their MacBooks.it really doesn't matter what cpu and even what heatsink you're talking about, so we dont have to use a macbook specifically to know the end result...
- Tags: Processors, CPU, grease, heatsink, Apple MacBook, compound, processor, paste, Thermal Grease
- Discussion threads 2006-05-22
- Thermal grease and the MacBook
- Readers of The Apple Core remember the recent issue about the amount of thermal grease or paste that Apple applies to the chips in the MacBook Pro. There's pretty decent evidence that over-application of the paste is causing MacBook Pros to run hotter than they should. It appears that...
- Tags: grease, Apple MacBook
- Blog posts 2006-05-21
- Thermal grease theory
- Thermal grease theoryI hope you were kidding...I hope you were kidding with the question "Should Apple have done this in the first place, or is the MacBook Pro designed with the extra thermal grease to keep the fan from coming on?"Let’s see, design a system that won't conduct heat away...
- Tags: Semiconductors, theory, Thermal Paste, grease, thermal grease, chip, heat sink, sink
- Discussion threads 2006-05-01
- Thermal grease theory
- There's a theory making the rounds that the MacBook Pro's high temperatures are attributed to a misapplication of "thermal grease" that's applied to the CPU and GPU chips during the manufacturing process. A post by Interrupting Moss on the Something Awful forums mentions that "it just takes a slight misapplication...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Apple MacBook Pro
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
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- America Last: the official marketing policy of the auto industry?
- We Americans are unfortunately known the world over for wanting bigger, faster, more luxurious, lots of oil or grease. That's especially true with hotel rooms, cars, houses and junk food. So now we're literally paying the price for it. It can be very hard to find a...
- Tags: Car, Industry, Marketing Research, Marketing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Fill 'er up: biodiesel company in ship-shape for future
- Innovation's Newark plant. I recently spoke with the head of a biodiesel firm that's on the production side of the business. Innovaton Fuels was formed from the merger of smaller start-ups and already has one production plant in operation, and a second on the...
- Tags: Biodiesel, Innovation Fuels, John Fox, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-05-29
- AU Optronics unveils curved LCD
- New display technologies often precede innovations like the iPhone, Microsoft's Surface and other new toys. With that in mind, it's worth noting that AU Optronics has unveiled a curved LCD display. On Monday, AU Optronics, a leading LCD component manufacturer based in Taiwan, said it will showcase...
- Tags: AU Optronics, LCD, Thickness, Display, Monitors & Displays, Keyboards, Hardware, Components, Peripherals, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air (updated)
- Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air updatedWell, as they sayToo much of a good thing can be bad.Hacker computerThey must switch the CPU with a hacked CPU.Geek-tech globs it on.Thermal grease is only there to fill...any gaps due to imperfections in the heat sink and the cpu...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Federal government, Thermal Grease, Apple MacBook, Apple Inc., assembler
- Discussion threads 2008-04-30
- Excess thermal paste causing high temps in MacBook Air (updated)
- Remember the thermal paste problem with earlier MacBook Pros that was reported back in May 2006? Well, it's back. Read more about the grease problems in my earlier reports: Thermal grease theory - 01 May 2006 Thermal grease and the MacBook -...
- Tags: Apple MacBook, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason D. O\'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-04-30
- Red Hat delivers its state of desktop Linux address: There's no money in targeting consumers
- Red Hat delivers its state of desktop Linux address: There's no money in targeting consumersBecause of the subtle differences...in distro's, companies and individuals using Ubuntu on the desktop are going to more likely use it's server product. Dealing with different distro's can be a real pain. It is probably one...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Operating systems, CxO, Linux, Red Hat Inc., desktop, Ubuntu, desktop Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-04-17
- Elastra emerges to make cloud computing more attainable for enterprises
- Cloud computing as a concept has been gathering significant interest in the past months, but aside from developers, testers and startups, the ability to exploit the efficiencies and cost-benefits of cloud computing for average enterprises have remained hard to grasp. Startup Elastra unveiled its approach today to...
- Tags: Cloud Computing, Cloud, Elastra, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Score one for the little guy: FCC entirely backs consumer in Sprint slamming case
- Score one for the little guy: FCC entirely backs consumer in Sprint slamming caseWhat happened?What happenned to the FCC being the evil minions of the Bush administration?Clearly a mistake...after, corporations have more rights than people as was intended by our Founding Humans and Humanoid Types. None of this consumer rights...
- Tags: Federal government, Sprint Communications, FCC, little guy
- Discussion threads 2008-03-04
- French court says site cannot grade teachers
- French court says site cannot grade teachersActually, one could conclude thatit is up to students to hail or rail against the pros and cons of their teachers real issues not rants or raves, not necessarily on the grounds of their teachers educational credentials, but on the manner of their teaching,...
- Tags: Performance management, French Court
- Discussion threads 2008-03-03
- RIA wars heat up with arrival of Adobe's AIR and Flex
- In the world of Rich Internet Applications RIAs, the battle for hearts and minds -- not to mention eyeballs and desktops -- heated up this week when Adobe Systems took the wraps off its Adobe Integrated Runtime AIR. Adobe AIR, according to the buzz on the...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Application, Adobe AIR, Rich Internet Application, Workday, Flex 3.0, Human Resource Management (HRM), Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Off the grid: energy independence in the real world
- Off the grid: energy independence in the real worldTarget a non-desert climate next time!Interesting, but it'd be far more interesting if there were someone doing this for a climate other than desert (aka California, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas) - such as, for instance, Western Washington. We have...
- Tags: Western Washington, power source
- Discussion threads 2008-02-21
- MacBooks - to deploy or not to deploy, part 1
- MacBooks - to deploy or not to deploy, part 1Maybe I'm a bit harsh butare teachers asked what they think of their desk? The kids' desks? The tile floor? The windows? In fact, did anyone ever ask them if they WANTED Windows? The short answer is...
- Tags: Mice, Notebooks, mouse, Microsoft Windows, Apple MacBook
- Discussion threads 2008-02-20
- Who gave SCO that $100 million lifeline?
- Who gave SCO that $100 million lifeline?Actually......the lawsuits need to be settled and buried and current management must be removed (contracts bought out, if necessary) if SCO is to survive. The former and maybe the latter will take lots of money and this man appears to have it, but...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, IBM AIX/370, IBM Corp., SCO Group Inc., IBM AIX
- Discussion threads 2008-02-14
- Merger target suspect Citrix assembles virtualization products as Delivery Center
- Citrix Systems, Inc. has announced a restructuring and rebranding of its key virtualization products, as well as the introduction of a new orchestration technology. My question is when will the cloud computing, virtualization, SaaS and advertising combined synergies bubble up to show Citrix' substantial strategic worth? Who...
- Tags: Merger, Citrix Systems Inc., Workflow Studio, Citrix XenServer 4.1, Virtualization, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-02-14
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