The bottom center area registered 84 degrees, the touchpad 78 and the area between the G and H keys 91 degrees. At least the touchpad stayed a cool 80 degrees.ДЇortunately, this laptop remained fairly chilly after streaming a Hulu video for 15 minutes.

After playing 'World of Warcraft' for 15 minutes, the bottom of the notebook and the center of the keyboard reached 108 degrees, We consider anything above 95 degrees to be uncomfortable. The 15-inch MacBook Pro can run quite warm under stress. While running various benchmarks, the MacBook Pro's fan occasionally got loud enough for us to hear it from across the room, but it wasn't too disturbing. We still find it annoying that memory cards protrude from the notebook when inserted. In addition to a second USB 3.0 port, the right side of the MacBook Pro has an SD Card slot and HDMI port. The MagSafe 2 power connector, headphone jack and dual microphones also line the left side. As the world waits for blazing-fast peripherals to match, you can use one of two USB 3.0 ports (one on the left and on the right). We're talking up to 20 Gbps, or four times faster than USB 3.0. While this is the first repair program launched for the Mac Pro (Late 2013), Apple in February of last year launched a repair extension program for MacBook Pros manufactured between 20 due to similar graphics related issues.Click to EnlargeThe left side of the 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro houses two new Thunderbolt 2 ports that promise twice the bandwidth of the original Thunderbolt. A search on AppleвЂ™s support forums does show lengthy threads with a number of users complaining of similar problems with the Mac Pro including both machines that fall within AppleвЂ™s guidelines for eligibility and some that donвЂ™t. The repair will consist of Apple swapping out the graphics card and on average willВ take 3-5 days.ДЄnd hereвЂ™s a look at AppleвЂ™s internal notice to employees and service providers:ДЄpple hasnвЂ™t publicly announced the program, and itвЂ™s unclear if it might do so at a later point or leave it to retail staff and authorized service providers to inform customers on a case by case basis. Computer freezes or restarts unexpectedlyДЄpple has instructed staff and authorized service providers to fix eligible Mac Pros showing signs of graphics issues at no charge to the customer.No video on the external display even though the computer is on.Distorted or scrambled video on the external display.In the notice, Apple notes that Mac Pros manufactured between Februand Apare eligible for repairs due to issues with the machineвЂ™s graphics cards that вЂњmay cause distorted video, no video, system instability, freezing, restarts, shut downs, or may prevent system start up.вЂќДЄpple goes into a bit more detail about the symptoms eligible for repair: WeВ obtained the notice (pictured below) that Apple this week sent out to its authorized service providers detailing the new program and those eligible for repairs or replacements. Apple is launching a new Mac Pro Repair Extension Program to address complaints of video related issues with select models of its latest high-end desktop offering, 9to5Mac has learned.

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