softeky

I bet the parody was shot on an iPhone!

Ranks right up there with "iPod Flea"...

Samsung makes the OLED displays for both devices (theirs and Apple's)? Surely after a year or two Samsung should be able to improve their OLED product. Sounds pretty normal, new manufacturing techniques go to the most recently designed products. It might actually be to Apple's advantage to have Samsung beta their newest OLED technology in their own new flagship (*cough* squished battery design *cough*). Samsung have been oddly good at running their manufacturing "Chinese Walled" off from their own consumption of manufactured products. Though historically that was Samsung's, Apple designed, ARM production rather than Samsung's internally-designed OLED product. In any case, Apple might second-source or switch to LG for OLEDs for displays and switch to ARM-processors for non-iOS CPUs (away from Intel X86) to better control their own product improvements. Avoiding single-source manufacturers creating more delays to Apple's own roadmap (re: tick-tock, tick-tock, tick, tick, tick... erm, hey Intel, 16GB limit. Really!).

Mike Wuerthele said:

softeky said:

Over the years I've taken apart iMacs and laptops to repair them at board-level. One of the consistent construction issues is the use of thermal paste between the CPUs and the heat sync. In all cases grey thermal paste has been over applied and caked in a thick blanket between the CPUs and the metal heat sync. Furthermore, the thick application of thermal paste creates a blanket around the sides of the CPUs and keeps the heat in rather than allows it to escape the CPUs.

Is it possible that the fan ramping effectiveness is monitored under load and the fan ramping is not as effective as it was intended, being bypassed using more effective cooling noticed by clocking down the CPUs by monitoring software in real time?

Physically checking the thermal paste (and reapplying properly) might give you different results and something interesting to report to Apple's assembly team. Additionally the fan blade shaping spreads their sound over many frequencies and makes them very quiet though no less effective as they speed up (more of a hiss than a hum when they crank up).

I'd really love to hear if the thermal paste is finally being applied properly.

Over the last few years, in my experience, they're using either something very precise to dollop the paste on, or a consistent pad of compound. 

I haven't seen an over-application in a long time.

Well, it certainly is the case that I do not get recently manufactured motherboards to repair. They tend to be well out of warranty :-)

Over the years I've taken apart iMacs and laptops to repair them at board-level. One of the consistent construction issues is the use of thermal paste between the CPUs and the heat sync. In all cases grey thermal paste has been over applied and caked in a thick blanket between the CPUs and the metal heat sync. Furthermore, the thick application of thermal paste creates a blanket around the sides of the CPUs and keeps the heat in rather than allows it to escape the CPUs.

Is it possible that the fan ramping effectiveness is monitored under load and the fan ramping is not as effective as it was intended, being bypassed using more effective cooling noticed by clocking down the CPUs by monitoring software in real time?

Physically checking the thermal paste (and reapplying properly) might give you different results and something interesting to report to Apple's assembly team. Additionally the fan blade shaping spreads their sound over many frequencies and makes them very quiet though no less effective as they speed up (more of a hiss than a hum when they crank up).

I'd really love to hear if the thermal paste is finally being applied properly.

I wonder if Apple could do some research on the light frequencies birds see that we don't. Given the right frequencies, flashing some low-power LEDs at various angles onto the glass might give birds enough visual warning that the glass is there and solid without being visible to humans at all.