Apple admitted the service manual was theirs: https://gizmodo.com/thermal-greasy-apple-sics-lawyers-on-something-awful-171394 https://gizmodo.com/thermal-greas

Apple admitted the service manual was theirs: https://gizmodo.com/thermal-greasy-apple-sics-lawyers-on-something-awful-171394 https://gizmodo.com/thermal-greasy-apple-sics-lawyers-on-som... "After a Something Awful denizen took apart his MacBook Pro and discovered that Apple had slathered on far too much thermal grease, he found that using a more modest amount dropped his MacBook Pro's temperatures by several degrees. Now the forum has recieved a threatening letter from Apple's legal staff, requesting a link to this image [pictured above] be removed because 'The Service Source manual for the MacBook Pro is Apple's intellectual property and is protected by U.S. copyright law.'" Like many others [1,2,3,4,5], I saw a lot of these MacBook Pro overheating issues resolved by removing the profusion of thermal paste and replacing it with a sane amount of Arctic Silver. [1] https://www.teamfortress.tv/8399/macbook-pros-and-overheating-fix-success https://www.teamfortress.tv/8399/macbook-pros-and-overheatin... "But what really fixed everything, was replacing the factory thermal paste with my own application of Arctic mx-4. My core temps are now 15-20 degrees celsius cooler. No joke [TL;DR]Apple did a really bad job of applying the thermal paste on my 2011 Macbook Pro. So bad that the excess of paste around the diodes were causing overheating. I cleaned up their shitty job and put on Arctic Mx-4 and now my fps is higher than it ever was. Here are pictures of what I found. This is embarrassing because it makes Apple look pretty bad." [2] https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2xfzzi/if_you_havent_already_changed_your_thermal_paste/ https://old.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2xfzzi/if_you_havent... "I own a Late 2008 Macbook unibody, and lately the temps of the macbook were insane, until today. I was reading up on how Apple applies way to much thermal paste from the factory and boy were they right. I got around to opening the case and pulled the logic board earlier today. Looked at the thermal paste and it just seemed like they put it there. No real care for it working or not. Here: http://imgur.com/9z0cZwU http://imgur.com/9z0cZwU Anyways, I cleaned up the thermal paste, and reapplied Arctic Silver 5. It made a huge difference! Temp at Idle before were roughly 55-60 degrees celsius. Temp at Idle after are at 40 degrees celsius." [3] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/its-official-macbooks-have-bad-thermal-paste-applied.202247/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/its-official-macbooks-h... "It's official: Macbooks have bad thermal paste applied" [4] https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=95&t=496198 https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=95&t=496... "Early Macbook Pro - Overheating, too much thermal paste!" [5] https://free-info-pages.com/my2011macbookpro/replacing-thermal-paste-on-the-cpu-and-gpu.html https://free-info-pages.com/my2011macbookpro/replacing-therm... "Why reapply thermal paste? Too much paste reduces the rate at which the CPU transfers heat to the heatsink. Subsequently, temperatures (both idle and load) increase. You can see the gobs that were used on my 15″ MacBook Pro here, on both the i7 2.2 Ghz CPU and the AMD 6750m GPU, as well as the heatsink"