Cleaning fans, grille out of MBP
Hi,
To my big surprise I have not found an answer to my question yet. I have not done VERY EXTENSIVE search but I really thought i'd come up with something real quick. I've been running my MBP for about a 20 months now. Lately it was slowing down and running pretty hot. I've been told internal components reduce their frequencies in order to protect from heat, hence slowing down the computer. Which is why someone would want to keep his computer free of dust. Having had desktop PCs for a few years, I was doing this on a 6 month basic. Desktop do suck a lot of air and dust and it tends to slow down with dust buildup.
So I thought I'd do the same thing on my MBP. Reading questions and posts about that situation, all I found out was most MBP owners are too scared to damage/void the warranty to do any simple task themselves and bring their macbook in to the apple store. Last time I went, I was turned out by a genius because I dropped my MBP on it's side and bent the display cover and cracked the screen bezel. All I was looking for was an advice on how to do some things, I wasn'T looking to get a brand new MBP free of charge because I fked up. Anyways, enough with my problems.
So I wanna do this myself. How did you do this ? What did you use ? Compressed air ? Vaccum from outside ?
Thanks !
Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)