Does installing a thermal pad affects warranty?

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Does installing a thermal pad affects warranty?

Macbook Air 2020 has issues with performance because of the design mistakes that lead to overheating and then CPU throttling. People get 20-30% performance boost, as well as reduce dangerous high temperatures, in just 10 minutes by using an extremely simple fix.

There's a fix number one, where a guy puts a thin thermal pad between the alum case and the CPU heatsink:

Fix number two, another guy goes even further and puts a thermal pad between the CPU itself and its heatsink:

I want to do either 1 or 2, but I'm not sure if my warranty disappears after that. Can anyone tell me? I tried to get the official support but they only let me "arrange the phone call" (omg as a true engineer, I hate talking to people; plus I want to have a written proof from Apple so they won't reject me if it turns out there will be warranty issues).

Thanks

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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 3, 2020 4:39 AM

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Oct 3, 2020 5:00 AM in response to NotABigFanOf

anytime someone takes the cover off any product, that halts the manufactures warrantee.

i would investigate WHY the MacBook is throttling.

you could be using too many apps or overloading the MacBook.

make sure the MacBook air is well ventilated and in a suitable environment

also by check the first aid part in disk utility will keep your MacBook healthy.

these laptops will get warm, My Dell XPS throttles and gets warm when i am streaming a game while typing words for work

and that laptop has one of the best heating solutions on the market.

adding non things to  products will definitely void the warrantee.

i hope this helped and you can enjoy your MacBook air, my 2010 is still running great!

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