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sdschramm Author

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Ok to keep MacBook Pro in a cold car?

Hi, as the weather get colder, I was wondering if I should be concerned about keeping my MacBook Pro in the cold, for example, in a car.

The tech specs say "Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F and Storage temperature: -13° to 113° F.

So, im guessing it WOULD be safe if I kept my MacBook Pro in my car when it below freezing outside. As long as I don't use it until it warms up, I should be good, right?

Regards,
Scott

13" MacBook Pro/4GB RAM/320GB HD - 500MHz iBook G3/640 RAM/160GB HD/WiFi, Other OS, OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on the MacBook Pro, and OS X 10.4.11 Tiger on the iBook

Posted on Oct 10, 2009 8:38 PM

16 replies

Oct 13, 2009 5:23 PM in response to MacRS4

Cool. Go ahead.

Good luck! 🙂

M.

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Ok to keep MacBook Pro in a cold car?