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10.5: More control of fan speeds on iMacs and laptops
Authored by: ascanio on Fri, Jul 18 2008 at 2:36AM PDT

BTW, on my old PowerBook G4 the excessive heat fried the optical drive connector (it couldn't write DVDs anymore) and the firewire ports. On the new MacBook Pro I always try to keep the temperature as low as possible (reasonably)

10.5: More control of fan speeds on iMacs and laptops
Authored by: BryanD on Fri, Jul 18 2008 at 11:49AM PDT

Re: ...the excessive heat fried the optical drive connector...
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Ouch! Must have been "one hot movie" you were watching! <sic>