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sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2015-09-05 09:17 am
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But then again, who does?

Bertie Owen aten't dead.

A can of compressed air is not a panacaea, but it does a power of good to a six-year-old laptop in a house with two cats. I had to rebuild my iTunes library; at the moment that seems to be the worst of it. There are decisions to be made, but not this second. We're fighting the good fight against planned obsolescence, he and I.
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[personal profile] movingfinger 2015-09-05 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
When my laptop (not that old) was recently disassembled for keyboard replacement, the air intake for the fans was clogged by a small line of felt made of cat hair. I intend to take the back off---that's easy enough if you mind the placement of the screws, which are of different sizes---and remove the felt a couple times a year now, as the fan was running a heck of a lot and after that cleanout it ran far less.
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[personal profile] sovay 2015-09-05 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I intend to take the back off---that's easy enough if you mind the placement of the screws, which are of different sizes---and remove the felt a couple times a year now, as the fan was running a heck of a lot and after that cleanout it ran far less.

I appreciate the recommendation. I do feel as though you are giving me advice on something which I have just done, have in fact done many times before, and have just explained that I don't want to do very often. Among other reasons, Bertie Owen's case is slightly sprung, which eventually caused enough internal stress to kill the CD/DVD drive, and the fewer times I have to remove and replace the back, the better.
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[personal profile] movingfinger 2015-09-06 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
No, not advice, just thinking out loud. Yours having a similar problem hints at a trend.

But in further thought, I've realized that this is the laptop that the cat used to sleep beside (she lived on the desk into her old age, and had her final seizure there, poor little animal) and it probably is less likely to bulk up there now that I have less ambient cat hair in my life.

My big concern about anything with the newish MacBooks is stripping the screws...it is too easy to get a wrong screw in a socket!

Is yours a 13" aluminum?
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