<story><title>How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals</title><url>https://bsid.io/posts/2019/03/how-to-improve-macbook-pro-performance-and-thermals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>szc</author><text>Are you sure those are Apple circuit boards? When and what boards used blue solder mask?</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>I see Apple hasn&amp;#x27;t changed at all --- these memorable pages from the official service manual of many years ago shows what they considered the &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; amount of paste:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;attach.mobile01.com&amp;#x2F;attach&amp;#x2F;200605&amp;#x2F;mobile01-514da8fc7fc5ce50359d0bd754a7c73c.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;attach.mobile01.com&amp;#x2F;attach&amp;#x2F;200605&amp;#x2F;mobile01-514da8fc7f...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;attach.mobile01.com&amp;#x2F;attach&amp;#x2F;200605&amp;#x2F;mobile01-e89d3804df75a137bd9adbe040817a57.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;attach.mobile01.com&amp;#x2F;attach&amp;#x2F;200605&amp;#x2F;mobile01-e89d3804df...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techpowerup.com&amp;#x2F;img&amp;#x2F;06-05-01&amp;#x2F;lol1qe.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techpowerup.com&amp;#x2F;img&amp;#x2F;06-05-01&amp;#x2F;lol1qe.jpg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>userbinator</author><text>The last picture comes from the MacBook Pro 2006 service manual.&lt;p&gt;I believe the first two come from the MacBook (not pro) early 2006 service manual, since the colour of the paste is white instead of the grey of later manuals which show (only slightly) smaller amounts.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermals</title><url>https://bsid.io/posts/2019/03/how-to-improve-macbook-pro-performance-and-thermals/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>szc</author><text>Are you sure those are Apple circuit boards? When and what boards used blue solder mask?</text></item><item><author>userbinator</author><text>I see Apple hasn&amp;#x27;t changed at all --- these memorable pages from the official service manual of many years ago shows what they considered the &amp;quot;correct&amp;quot; amount of paste:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;attach.mobile01.com&amp;#x2F;attach&amp;#x2F;200605&amp;#x2F;mobile01-514da8fc7fc5ce50359d0bd754a7c73c.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;attach.mobile01.com&amp;#x2F;attach&amp;#x2F;200605&amp;#x2F;mobile01-514da8fc7f...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;attach.mobile01.com&amp;#x2F;attach&amp;#x2F;200605&amp;#x2F;mobile01-e89d3804df75a137bd9adbe040817a57.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;attach.mobile01.com&amp;#x2F;attach&amp;#x2F;200605&amp;#x2F;mobile01-e89d3804df...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techpowerup.com&amp;#x2F;img&amp;#x2F;06-05-01&amp;#x2F;lol1qe.jpg&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.techpowerup.com&amp;#x2F;img&amp;#x2F;06-05-01&amp;#x2F;lol1qe.jpg&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wtallis</author><text>I have some circa 2007-2008 MBP boards lying around that are blue. Based on a quick check of iFixit repair guides, it looks like they stopped using blue when they adopted the unibody chassis.</text></comment>