Just bought a brand new MacBook Pro, super excited! Strangely though, it seems to be getting hot doing small tasks. For instance as I'm writing this now on only safari the laptop is getting warm. It is plugged into the charger and that seemed to boost the temp for some reason. Watching YouTube earlier and it get decently hot. I've mainly had windows laptops before and I've never experienced them getting hot or warm doing simple tasks, is this a normal thing for MacBooks?
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Brand new MacBook Pro getting hot?
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I mean it's hard to really say unless you list temperatures. You can measure with many tools; iStat, Macs Fan Control, all sorts of options.
As for plugged into the wall being warmer that makes sense since extra energy is being used to not just run the laptop, but to run it and charge it at the same time. Most of the heat is in the power brick but some is inside the laptop.
And is it a 13" or 16"?
Also; Metal laptops often use the chassis as part of the cooling system to dissipate heat, meaning the chassis will get warmer, while plastic ones often can't really do that. This means metal laptops will feel warmer though the internal temperatures of the components may not necessarily be
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Furthermore; Macs tend to start spinning up the fans later than Windows laptops. You can configure this differently yourself if you prefer to keep it cooler at a cost of battery and noise. But the defaults are perfectly safe for the hardware. Apple just prefers running fast and quiet than turning down the performance and spinning up the fans.
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One last thing; Another thing you can do if you don't need the speed and want to reduce heat is disable Turbo Boost with Turbo Boost Switcher if your processor is supported by the software. Keep it on for speed, but turn it off if you just want it to run cooler for a bit
As for plugged into the wall being warmer that makes sense since extra energy is being used to not just run the laptop, but to run it and charge it at the same time. Most of the heat is in the power brick but some is inside the laptop.
And is it a 13" or 16"?
Also; Metal laptops often use the chassis as part of the cooling system to dissipate heat, meaning the chassis will get warmer, while plastic ones often can't really do that. This means metal laptops will feel warmer though the internal temperatures of the components may not necessarily be
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Furthermore; Macs tend to start spinning up the fans later than Windows laptops. You can configure this differently yourself if you prefer to keep it cooler at a cost of battery and noise. But the defaults are perfectly safe for the hardware. Apple just prefers running fast and quiet than turning down the performance and spinning up the fans.
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One last thing; Another thing you can do if you don't need the speed and want to reduce heat is disable Turbo Boost with Turbo Boost Switcher if your processor is supported by the software. Keep it on for speed, but turn it off if you just want it to run cooler for a bit
Okay cool thanks.I mean it's hard to really say unless you list temperatures. You can measure with many tools; iStat, Macs Fan Control, all sorts of options.
As for plugged into the wall being warmer that makes sense since extra energy is being used to not just run the laptop, but to run it and charge it at the same time. Most of the heat is in the power brick but some is inside the laptop.
And is it a 13" or 16"?
Also; Metal laptops often use the chassis as part of the cooling system to dissipate heat, meaning the chassis will get warmer, while plastic ones often can't really do that. This means metal laptops will feel warmer though the internal temperatures of the components may not necessarily be
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Furthermore; Macs tend to start spinning up the fans later than Windows laptops. You can configure this differently yourself if you prefer to keep it cooler at a cost of battery and noise. But the defaults are perfectly safe for the hardware. Apple just prefers running fast and quiet than turning down the performance and spinning up the fans.
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One last thing; Another thing you can do if you don't need the speed and want to reduce heat is disable Turbo Boost with Turbo Boost Switcher if your processor is supported by the software. Keep it on for speed, but turn it off if you just want it to run cooler for a bit
I just got it today so I have no idea if it has finished indexing everything
Just to give you an idea: It took several days for my 2020 MBP to finish indexing and it is still getting pretty hot when I have the foto app running in the background because it is uploading fotos or scanning for faces. So it heavily depends if you have a big foto library and if you have a lot of external drives connected (you can exclude them from getting searched by spotlight in the settings). You can also check in the “battery icon” if an app is using a lot of power.
No problem
Yeah, Newly set up Macs will index the drive for Spotlight searching (Spotlight is an amazing search system)
And as Jochheim mentioned, if you have a photo library already from iOS usage on iCloud or otherwise importing a large collection, it'll do a lot of machine learning work on all of your photos; Face recognition, scene detection, etc. You can actually search you photos library like "Mountains" and it'll show all the images you have of mountains. It's pretty cool, but it does require some time to do ML inferencing on a big collection, because Apple doesn't do it in the cloud; They do it on-device for privacy