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Is it advisable to use a cooling pad (w/ an external fan) for the Mac or like in my old PC notebook, I used a notebook ball? Only weird thing is the unibody mac does not have vents in the underside unless you count the ports and disc slot? How do you activate the SMC fan?

Thanks for the suggestions. Update: Its been 2 whole days now and haven't experienced the rainbow ball once. I've monitored the temperature w/ the following results for the last 2 days: (in Celsius) CPU A Temp diode MIN=37.0, MAX=83.0 CPU Core 1 MIN=34.0, MAX=82.0 CPU Core 2...

2 GB RAM. Perhaps that's not sufficient and have to increase RAM or decrease no. of open programs. Update: since yesterday, have not had the freezing problem. Few things I've done: make sure that there are max. 3 apps working in the background, used quicktime but closed other programs, added...

The Mac has 2 GB RAM. Do you think I should add?

Hi. I'm wondering if there is a fix already to this symptom. I've recently purchased a 13in. Macbook Pro Unibody (July 2009; 1st time mac user). 2.26, 160GB, OSX 10.5.8. All software upgraded and running latest version. 98 GB free memory. Recently while watching movies using Quicktime...

Hi. I hope somebody can help me find a solution for this. I recently got a Macbook Pro 13 in w/ 160GB HD (orig. HD). I'm a first time mac user. I've had the mac for less than 2 mos. At first everything was ok and even commented to some friends and associates and on some forums how great the mac...