God my 2nd gen MacBook use to do that as well, I hated it. Fans spinning up for no reason can drive a person nuts!
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15-Inch Retina MacBook Pro Users Experiencing Fan Issues Related to SanDisk SSDs?
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Really makes me question what Apple has been doing with their notebooks lately. I'm typing this on a first generation Revision A MacBook Unibody from 2008 and the fans are sitting at 1760RPM with 7 applications running, one of which is rendering some audio right now. All of a sudden, a flagship MacBook from 2013 spools up the fans for no reason when playing lossless files in iTunes? That's kind of ridiculous. My machine is not without its faults (the screen has some pretty atrocious viewing angles and whatnot) but at least those faults were known before purchasing the machine and weren't things we as users are essentially beta testing for Apple.
I know I probably sound like the biggest hater out there right now, but Apple really needs to step it up. My experience when I had my retina 15" for a few weeks has seriously made me question their quality control (my retina had a squeaky case, a buzzing keyboard backlight, sleep issues, heating up when closed, and connectivity issues) and I returned it in spite of its speed and beauty. They can't rest on their laurels and it's really showing. As bad as it sounds, returning it and going back to my 2008 MacBook was almost freeing... I couldn't enjoy the retina purely because every time I picked it up, I felt like I'd find yet another ludicrous issue with it. At least my old workhorse was flawless, reliable and, though slow, something that wouldn't just decide not to wake from sleep or ramp up the fans for no reason... and it's a revision A product too.
TL;DR - I'll be seriously holding off my decisions on a Haswell MacBook until all the issues have been revealed. It's getting frustrating that Apple hasn't figured stuff like this out.
I know I probably sound like the biggest hater out there right now, but Apple really needs to step it up. My experience when I had my retina 15" for a few weeks has seriously made me question their quality control (my retina had a squeaky case, a buzzing keyboard backlight, sleep issues, heating up when closed, and connectivity issues) and I returned it in spite of its speed and beauty. They can't rest on their laurels and it's really showing. As bad as it sounds, returning it and going back to my 2008 MacBook was almost freeing... I couldn't enjoy the retina purely because every time I picked it up, I felt like I'd find yet another ludicrous issue with it. At least my old workhorse was flawless, reliable and, though slow, something that wouldn't just decide not to wake from sleep or ramp up the fans for no reason... and it's a revision A product too.
TL;DR - I'll be seriously holding off my decisions on a Haswell MacBook until all the issues have been revealed. It's getting frustrating that Apple hasn't figured stuff like this out.
Are you even reading the OP? This is a specific issue regarding fan turn on due to SSD access when cool with the new brand/model of SSDs and neither of you have this specific issue.
It was a front page story and I felt my rant was relevant to the rMBP having issues. You could have just skipped my post, no reason to complain.
No, the fanboyism against Samsung is specifically against Samsung Mobile.
Apple isn't competing against Samsung's refrigerators. It's just a complicated mess because Samsung has different subsidiaries while Apple is just....Apple. Samsung makes greats products, you just can't can't let phone-specific fanboyism get in the way.
Do the SMC reset!!!
I got my 2013 rMBP a couple weeks ago and when I was transferring over all of the data, the fans were blaring. I have a Sandisk 512 SSD and a Samsung display. The morning after all of the data was migrated, I did an SMC reset and I haven't had the issue since. I still get some fan noise when the vents are covered to some degree...which I think is normal. But no blaring issues like before. I'm sure there will be a software fix for this but this should be a temporary solution.
I got my 2013 rMBP a couple weeks ago and when I was transferring over all of the data, the fans were blaring. I have a Sandisk 512 SSD and a Samsung display. The morning after all of the data was migrated, I did an SMC reset and I haven't had the issue since. I still get some fan noise when the vents are covered to some degree...which I think is normal. But no blaring issues like before. I'm sure there will be a software fix for this but this should be a temporary solution.
Such is the mirage of "rev B", and the absurdity that rev A is necessarily issue-wrought because it's all-new. Every update is essentially all new from the previous... different parts from new vendors, new s/w, updated firmware in parts, etc. It's just as likely for a rev B, C, D to be buggy as a rev A.
Also, the nature of the fast moving electronics market these days is that we are all beta testers. Manufacturers simply don't have enough time to squash every bug. The annoying thing is that once these issues are known companies, like Apple, are slow to respond.
But from a business perspective, Apple did let itself become too dependent upon Samsung as a supplier. Cash is fungible, but profits from sales to Apple may well have gone into the development of the Galaxy SIII. Also, certainly it helped build up the vertical supply chain advantage that Samsung enjoys.
They make good products, but they aren't the only ones out there. Sandisk is a reputable manufacturer, and hopefully this firmware issue will get resolved. It isn't as if there have never been issues with Samsung products. AnandTech reported about its issues with the Samsung 840 SSD line last year.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6503/second-update-on-samsung-ssd-840840-pro-failures
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The guy needs to get his priorities straight. His first problem is he needs to reevaluate how much Coldplay is in his music library, the cooling fan is a distant problem in comparison.
Don't worry, I'm using Spotify. iTunes was only for the purpose of the test.
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No. I run the last build of OSX 10.8.3 and I still get the problem. We need a SMC update.
Let's see, he listens to Coldplay and garbage complextro electro house music from GoPro commercials - his computer is just angry and runs the fans in protest.
Of course, this is the first thing I did when I found out the problem. But it didn't help.
I have the June rMBP and I had that weird issue where graphics performance and fan speed would be all whacky until you did an SMC reset (which would only last about a week). I took it in and in two days had a new motherboard and never saw the issue again. I certainly hope those affected by this are treated as nicely by Apple support!
I wanted to add that this is absolutely the best laptop I've ever owned.
I wanted to add that this is absolutely the best laptop I've ever owned.
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And yet there was mass panic about an extremely rare case of uncased iPhone 4s dropping calls in areas with bad service if you press your fingers on a certain spot.
Apple would be way more careful about their Macs if the public actually cared. The iMac G5, for instance, was definitely nowhere near Apple quality.
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Coldplay is one of the worst entities to be called a "band". Yeah, Justin Bieber is better, and that's saying something.
Apple would be way more careful about their Macs if the public actually cared. The iMac G5, for instance, was definitely nowhere near Apple quality.
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Coldplay is one of the worst entities to be called a "band". Yeah, Justin Bieber is better, and that's saying something.
If it worries you I'd wait a week for the software patch. There is* no issue with the hardware, my SSD (and others who report the same) does not run hot or even warm/medium, it stays very cool.
e: *appears to be
iStat.
Saying Bieber is better than anyone is definitely saying something.
Samsung's stand-alone SSDs also kick ass.
Samsung for performance, Intel for reliability. Don't settle for less.