Mbp c2d help!

hi there i have a mbp c2d and it states on the apple site the idle tempreture is 30 - 35 degrees but mine runs at about 43 - 47 is this normal and also iv noticed the ejects key and the escape keys are at a slight angle to the rest of the keys should i phone up apple and get a replacemtn as i dont live anywhere near an apple store. plz can anyone help

The heat on the specs page mean the heat on the outside the machine is best suited for operating in as an external environment. The heat on the inside of the computer has no published limit. Temperature measuring tools online measure the heat sensor on the inside, whose temperatures have nothing to do with the spec page's heat indication and only have meaning for an authorized service technician since Apple does not publish to the general public what the internal heat sensor maximums are. Generally users here have guessed what the arbitrary heat maximum is based on experience of frequent crashes or random shutdowns just after the heat reaches a certain limit. However, this may be meaningless still because it could be caused by bad RAM, bad preferences, bad cache, or bad permissions. A more reliable indicator would be a hardware test that tells you the RAM is bad, your hard disk getting too full, or repairing permissions or repairing disk yielding something it can't fix. For more on directory and permissions repair, see my http://www.macmaps.com/directoryfaq.html
Before doing any such repair, backup your data as my backup FAQ explains:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
Good luck!

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Ho Lee MACkeral wrote:
That CD2 OS will not boot into a new computer's OS.
Hi, thanks for replying.
I knew that the switch to Intel from ppc, meant a ppc drive, partitioned with APM could not boot an intel machine with a GUID partition table.
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1. for certain that a C2D HD cannot boot an i7 machine?
2. and why?
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Why not use Migration Assistant in the Utilities folder?
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