Best Practices : Room Temperature?

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Best Practices : Room Temperature?

We are currently negotiating with our district on what is the ideal and preferred room temperature for our mac labs. I found an interesting thread a while back but it was specific for dells and I was wondering what was the ideal room temp to keep our labs in. Is there an official apple SOP on this?

"ambient room temperature is between 20°C/68°F and 26°C/79°F, averaging at about 23°C/73°F. Anything exceeding 27°C /80°F is potentially damaging to your computer."

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DonE

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4)

Posted on Apr 22, 2016 9:26 AM

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Answer 1

Apr 22, 2016 9:36 AM in response to ddavie3

Mac Pro Temperature Questions

See comment by a brody

and thread

kmb kmbp: How to deal with MacBook Pro and MacBook heat?

Also see

http://computers.tutsplus.com/tutorials/keeping-your-cool-with-apple-mac-operati ng-temperatures--mac-52077

Notebooks from Apple

Mac notebooks: Operating temperature - Apple Support

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pokey b

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Apr 22, 2016 9:56 AM in response to ddavie3

Perhaps look at Apple's recommendations in the operating manual that should be on the heard drive of your Mac. Mine, a mid-2010 i-Mac states the recommendations below.

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ddavie3 Author

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Apr 22, 2016 10:11 AM in response to ddavie3

Awesome. I cross referenced the manual. I'll probably stick with intel's specs as its a few degrees cooler but this is good to know. Thank you 🙂 (I forget that these things come with a manual. I should have RTFM 🙂 )

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pokey b

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Apr 22, 2016 10:39 AM in response to ddavie3

Staying a little cooler can't hurt. I'm involved in the manufacture of components for the electrical, electronic & automotive industries. Virtually all of our customers run simulated life testing and all of those tests include either a portion of the time at high temperatures or entirely time at high temperatures (often as much as the device can tolerate).

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