Battery and Heat
So I've been having a problem with my battery due to an excessive amount of heat coming from my MBP.
Basically this has come up rather suddenly over the past few weeks. My notebook has gotten unusually hot when running one program as basic as Microsoft Word. Now, I keep it clean, keep it ventilated, and have tried it on virtually every surface. It gets hot without fail. Now, what would normally happen is it would get really hot when streaming videos or editing or basically something that's actually taxing on this machine's memory. That would reduce the battery life, but now that the heat is up there all the time, my max battery life is less than two hours.
I checked the stats on my battery in system profiler and it's in good health. I took it to an Apple store (although i will go back because the dude was kind of rude to me) and this guy did a stress test on it and told me to calibrate it.
I've had my mac since summer 2007 and since the dude told me, I've calibrated it at least 5 or 6 times. Not. One. Difference.
I figure if the battery heath is good, at least according to the stats, then there must be a minor heat problem or something. The stress test passed and the dude told me macs get hot, but I KNOW that this is not normal behavior. Opinions?
Basically this has come up rather suddenly over the past few weeks. My notebook has gotten unusually hot when running one program as basic as Microsoft Word. Now, I keep it clean, keep it ventilated, and have tried it on virtually every surface. It gets hot without fail. Now, what would normally happen is it would get really hot when streaming videos or editing or basically something that's actually taxing on this machine's memory. That would reduce the battery life, but now that the heat is up there all the time, my max battery life is less than two hours.
I checked the stats on my battery in system profiler and it's in good health. I took it to an Apple store (although i will go back because the dude was kind of rude to me) and this guy did a stress test on it and told me to calibrate it.
I've had my mac since summer 2007 and since the dude told me, I've calibrated it at least 5 or 6 times. Not. One. Difference.
I figure if the battery heath is good, at least according to the stats, then there must be a minor heat problem or something. The stress test passed and the dude told me macs get hot, but I KNOW that this is not normal behavior. Opinions?
Macbook Pro 15", Mac OS X (10.5.1)