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Repair information and guides for the long-awaited refresh of the popular MacBook Air, featuring Intel's Core i5 processors, an updated Retina Display, and numerous other changes and updates that was released on November 7th, 2018.

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What thermal paste is installed on CPU?

I have MacBook air 2018 and i want to know what is the thermal paste inside? On youtube i saw on newest 2020 models graphite thermal paste, with are better heat conductor. If it like on newest macbooks is unnecessary to change it.

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Apple does not use graphite thermal pads! They use a low quality non-conductive thermal paste.

Here’s a bit more on Graphite Pads vs. Thermal Paste: Which Is Better? I can list off a good hand full of reports which support the fact this is not workable as much as people wanted it to work.

I don’t recommend any pad on CPU or GPU chips, both are way to hot and the thermal transfer needed is just not there! There is a lot to this that makes this hard to understand why.

Stick with a non-conductive, not damaging thermal paste. I find Arctic Silver Thermal Paste is all thats needed.

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