Thermal Paste - Heating Issues

"If you're an engineer, you know the difference between a heat PUMP and a heat PIPE, right?"

OK, you got me, I don't know what I'm talking about. We didn't actually cover the differences between heat pumps and pipes although it's possible that I do understand the difference and just used the wrong term. I did learn from a more fundamental level how conduction, convection, and radiative heat transfer work. I'm not an expert, just saying I understand it better than the average person.

No.

I got the new 15" 2.2GHz i7 MBP on launch day. I have Safari open, iChat, and iTunes playing music and my CPU temp is 49 degrees celsius and the fans are at a silent 1990 RPM. I did notice the first day when downloading games off steam it seemed to get hot and loud and was a bit concerned, but that subsided and it doesn't do that nearly as often anymore. Hopefully it's something that will just fade away....

I'm going in tomorrow to see if they will do anything about the heating issue, I mean it's a new machine; it shouldn't have any issues 😟

See this article for information on the fans - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4543?viewlocale=en_US

FYI, I found a data base of mac temperature posts for many years/models with ambient temperatures for references also.

http://www.intelmactemp.com/list/page14

also found a link where they tested a MBP with way to much paste and then again with Arctic silver 5 using just a small amount, this test is pretty old now but still relevant and revealed VERY little improvements from having done it which is my experience also.....

http://www.macgeekery.com/hacks/hardware/thedefinitive_macbook_pro_thermalroundup