I've been measuring the temperatures on my 2011 MBP 13" / 8GB all day with various workloads. Surprisingly, the plastic case does not seem to have affected the temperature much one way or another.
Do any of these temperatures seem abnormal? I am afraid I don't really know what temperature range my computer "ought" to be within.
WITH CASE / WITHOUT CASE
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CPU=110-146 F / CPU=115-173 F
FAN=1994-2003 RPM / FAN=1992-2001RPM
The workload varied across the day. I took five readings for each one. The higher temperature readings resulted from times when I was working the computer hardest (email, itunes playing music, microsoft word, excel, voodoopad, chrome, bookends, and adobe acrobat combining multiple files into a single pdf).
There is nothing particularly rigorous about the test conditions. I wasn't doing exactly the same work in exactly the same location, and by the end of the day (without the case) the computer was running a little warmer because it had been in use (the highest readings for each were taken within 30 minutes of one another). Obviously, I am not really pushing the computer as much as some users might (this is the most load I would ever put on the computer in a regular workday). I imagine hardcore gamers / programmers / video editors would see different results.
I was a bit surprised by the results. I was expecting the case to have caused the computer to run noticeably warmer. I was thinking about getting a keyboard cover (the moshi one). Has anyone noticed their computer running much hotter with it on?
Do any of these temperatures seem abnormal? I am afraid I don't really know what temperature range my computer "ought" to be within.
WITH CASE / WITHOUT CASE
------------------------------------------------------
CPU=110-146 F / CPU=115-173 F
FAN=1994-2003 RPM / FAN=1992-2001RPM
The workload varied across the day. I took five readings for each one. The higher temperature readings resulted from times when I was working the computer hardest (email, itunes playing music, microsoft word, excel, voodoopad, chrome, bookends, and adobe acrobat combining multiple files into a single pdf).
There is nothing particularly rigorous about the test conditions. I wasn't doing exactly the same work in exactly the same location, and by the end of the day (without the case) the computer was running a little warmer because it had been in use (the highest readings for each were taken within 30 minutes of one another). Obviously, I am not really pushing the computer as much as some users might (this is the most load I would ever put on the computer in a regular workday). I imagine hardcore gamers / programmers / video editors would see different results.
I was a bit surprised by the results. I was expecting the case to have caused the computer to run noticeably warmer. I was thinking about getting a keyboard cover (the moshi one). Has anyone noticed their computer running much hotter with it on?
