What *is* normal, out of curiosity? I'm seeing about 75 plus, and the bottom of the laptop feels quite warm, but not painfully so. Thanks in advance for the education.
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Does anybody's Macbook (2015) get burning hot?
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If your MBook is getting exceptionally hot, then it's possible that you have some rogue process causing that.
Have you ever kept your Activity Monitor open, to watch for any processes using excessive CPU, and particularly when you "feel" that your MBook is way too hot?
Make sure that Activity Monitor is set to show All Processes, and not just My Processes....
Have you ever kept your Activity Monitor open, to watch for any processes using excessive CPU, and particularly when you "feel" that your MBook is way too hot?
Make sure that Activity Monitor is set to show All Processes, and not just My Processes....
I can have it just sitting there with no programs open at all and it still gets got, theres just kernel_task and when it throttles it uses most of the CPU power. I just fresh installed osx so if there is a rogue app then it starts on its own. When im charging it and watching netflix or youtube eventually i get a 'performance reduced' notification and then it throttles and the video gets choppy and it feels so hot that i worry it will catch on fire.
Do you have Flash or Silverlight installed? I think this may be related to your specific usage and or set up, as logically there would be far more posts about the new Retina MacBook and elevated temperatures. I have a 1.2 rMB watching 1080p on Youtube it definitely does not get hot to the touch.
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You keep saying that you don't know what to do. I don't understand why you don't know what you should do. It's obviously a faulty unit and should be RETURNED asap. I don't know what other response you're now expecting from this thread. Nobody has any experience to compare with yours. Ignore the reading comprehension fails from other posters.
Any device that's too hot to touch and causing you physical PAIN for the whole time it's running even when idling with low CPU usage as in your case is NOT working as designed. Period. End of story. Take it back for another repair/replacement.
As I've posted the same thing here three times now, I've nothing more to add
It's pretty common for Apple's laptops to get hot just surfing the web, maybe made worse by the fanless design. It shouldn't cause any harm, but I'd use it on a desk for sure. I thought these MacBooks would run cooler considering their internals, maybe yours is faulty?
Strongly agree with the "it's faulty take it back" advice being given here. There's no way it should be getting alarmingly hot at idle, mine hasn't even gotten hot beyond anything I'm used to when running a lot of things at once. I've had my iPad shut down once with the "iPad needs to cool down" warning, when I fell asleep once while watching a movie lying down in direct summer sunlight. I could feel the whole body was cooking so it was obviously hitting a thermal wall. Compared to that, my rMB has been a fridge so far. You should just consider yourself unlucky to have received a lemon (twice?) and insist on an immediate replacement.
Btw, AFAIK, when you see "kernel task" running in activity monitor and using a lot of cycles, I think that is actually how OS X throttles. From what I read once, the dreaded "kernel task" is like a little nothing thread that takes over the CPU forcing it to rest until it gets below the thermal threshold again. When my 2010 i7 MBP was having weird problems with overheating and under performing, I thought that the kernel task was some rogue process that was there by mistake because it only appeared when the fans went crazy and the computer slowed right down. So I thought it was the culprit and kept trying to kill the process to no avail. That's when I found out what it was for.
Btw, AFAIK, when you see "kernel task" running in activity monitor and using a lot of cycles, I think that is actually how OS X throttles. From what I read once, the dreaded "kernel task" is like a little nothing thread that takes over the CPU forcing it to rest until it gets below the thermal threshold again. When my 2010 i7 MBP was having weird problems with overheating and under performing, I thought that the kernel task was some rogue process that was there by mistake because it only appeared when the fans went crazy and the computer slowed right down. So I thought it was the culprit and kept trying to kill the process to no avail. That's when I found out what it was for.