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Re:Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use by ksec on Sunday June 21, 2020 @08:10AM (#23591575)
>thermal paste degradation

Are there any thermal paste that doesn't degrade? Or minimal degrade within 5 years. We can fix dust with cleaning, we can get to a point where our computing needs could be done fanless ( Current iPad Pro ). But what about thermal paste degradation?

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Re:Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use by dr_zoidberg on Sunday June 21, 2020 @11:10PM (#23597101)
Once you open your notebook for cleaning you can remove the heatpipies and reapply thermal paste. Of course, you need to throughly clean the old paste, and need to take extra care (wrt a desktop).

My 3yo notebook could be needing such a treatment. OTOH, I could just buy a new one notebook since there are some interesting things happening in mobile space this year (Renoir and Tiger Lake).

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