As someone who ordered and is waiting for a 2020 MBA, I've been following the various threads on the 2020 MBA's apparent inadequate heat dissipation and loud fans. I watched all the YouTube videos that others have linked to in these threads, in particular the Max Tech videos in which he shows the CPU getting up to 100 degrees celsius when running Cinibench.
This got me wondering: how hot is too hot? And, how accurate are the temperature readings?
On my 2018 MBA, I've managed to get the temp up to 100C, like Max Tech did. I'm using (the free version of) TG Pro by Tunabelly to measure temperature and fan speed, like in Max Tech's videos.
100C = 212F, the temperature at which water boils. If the temperature gauge is accurate, shouldn't the inside of the laptop be pretty much melting by now?
And shouldn't the laptop feel extremely hot to the touch? It doesn't. It feels warm to very warm (on the bottom and above the Fn keys), but not unusually warm compared to all the other laptops I've used over the years which, when pushed hard, have also gotten warm to very warm to the touch.
So I'm wondering. Is the temperature gauge accurate when it says 100C/212F degrees?
And, regardless of that, how big of a risk to your laptop is it to run it very warm on occasion? As far as I can tell, I have never damaged any previous laptop by running it hard enough to get it very warm to the touch, or to get the fans to fire up.
If we run our shiny new 2020 MBAs very hard, they will be very warm to the touch, the fan will blast, and the processor will slow down. All of which is a nuisance, to be sure. But is it JUST a nuisance, or is there a very real risk of damaging the computer?
If there's a real risk of causing damage, then maybe we all should get Apple Care for our 2020 MBA's, or return them and wait for the forthcoming 13" MBP with Magic scissor keyboard.
If not, then I'd say that, for me, this is really not a big deal.
This got me wondering: how hot is too hot? And, how accurate are the temperature readings?
On my 2018 MBA, I've managed to get the temp up to 100C, like Max Tech did. I'm using (the free version of) TG Pro by Tunabelly to measure temperature and fan speed, like in Max Tech's videos.
100C = 212F, the temperature at which water boils. If the temperature gauge is accurate, shouldn't the inside of the laptop be pretty much melting by now?
And shouldn't the laptop feel extremely hot to the touch? It doesn't. It feels warm to very warm (on the bottom and above the Fn keys), but not unusually warm compared to all the other laptops I've used over the years which, when pushed hard, have also gotten warm to very warm to the touch.
So I'm wondering. Is the temperature gauge accurate when it says 100C/212F degrees?
And, regardless of that, how big of a risk to your laptop is it to run it very warm on occasion? As far as I can tell, I have never damaged any previous laptop by running it hard enough to get it very warm to the touch, or to get the fans to fire up.
If we run our shiny new 2020 MBAs very hard, they will be very warm to the touch, the fan will blast, and the processor will slow down. All of which is a nuisance, to be sure. But is it JUST a nuisance, or is there a very real risk of damaging the computer?
If there's a real risk of causing damage, then maybe we all should get Apple Care for our 2020 MBA's, or return them and wait for the forthcoming 13" MBP with Magic scissor keyboard.
If not, then I'd say that, for me, this is really not a big deal.