I'm not playing games or anything, just have about 10 safari tabs open in full screen and email on a full screen. But the top of the keyboard gets too hot to touch. Is this normal? What happens if it gets too hot and what is the best free program to monitor heat?
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So what happens when your new mba 13" i5 gets really hot...
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Assuming it is at 100° Celsius it will begin to throttle itself in an attempt to save itself.
If your fans are working I wouldn't worry about it.
If it is throttling you will know, it will begin to act slow and sluggish.
If your fans are working I wouldn't worry about it.
If it is throttling you will know, it will begin to act slow and sluggish.
90ºc is the hottest i've seen my cpu at 100%
normally it's just 60ºc
so something is going on in the background to make your cpu run so hot
normally it's just 60ºc
so something is going on in the background to make your cpu run so hot
I use Chrome instead of Safari and right now I've Mail, iTunes and 15 tabs open and my CPU temp is at 42C. The highest it has been at has been 72C and that was when I was trying to drain the battery as fast as possible. The laptop was still cool except for the underside.
I've never been a fan of Safari and have heard loads of bad things about it. Maybe try switching browsers and seeing if that is the problem?
I've never been a fan of Safari and have heard loads of bad things about it. Maybe try switching browsers and seeing if that is the problem?
I have used Chrome for years and like it a lot. Be warned, though, that Chrome 8.0.5 has problems with Lion. For example, ever since I installed Lion on my 2010 MBA, I can only close Chrome by using Force Quit. I have read that Chrome is working on a fix for this and other Lion incompatibilities but it seems not to be available yet. Also, use iStat to keep an eye on whether Chrome processes are hogging your CPU. That's a known bug. Fortunately, you can fix it by closing Chrome. When you reopen Chrome its processes return to normal.
I have been monitoring it and have had 0 problems with it and haven't had to Force Quit it once yet. I'm not a fan of Google at all but Chrome seems to be much better in many ways when compared with other major browsers.
Despite the occasional problems I have had with Chrome, I continue to prefer it to other browsers, primarily because of how well it supports tabs.
So does my 2011 unless I'm streaming a flash video in full screen and even at that the fans don't kick in, the top left corner beside the hinge gets slightly hot but nothing uncomfortable or noticeable unless you press the esc key.
This is the coolest and lightest laptop I've ever had and don't understand why so many are complaining about Sandy Bridge heat issues when they aren't even evident.
No they have stripped down version called MiStat available in the MAS.
You would have to buy iStat Menus from Bjango.
http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/
Any free iStat somewhere?
I found a widget by Bjango on Apple's website. Is that the same thing?
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So no free iStat? I looked at MiStat in the Mac App Store and it's $4.99. So best to go with the iStat from the website for the same price or a free or lite version available to test out?
iStat Menus is much more detailed and customizable.
With MiStat they had to stay within the rules of the Mac App Store. It really limits what they can do.