How quiet is the Macbook Air

2011 Model 13" 4GB ram

Generally it is whisper quite for me you can not hear it in an office environment or in my home office. At times it seems to snag on maybe a flash page and the fan kicks in. You can definitely hear it then. Its a once a week thing for me. I don't think much of it as I usually have 20 -30 tabs open in safari so price I pay. A restart usually remedies the issue.

 

It depends on your usage, mostly i don't hear my MBA 2012 at all, not even watching youtube clips on 1080p, the lack of dedicated GPU is mostly the plus on that.

I find that i start to hear the fan noise around 4K RPM and that's with recoding video and when i play Diablo 3 that really gets him hot and noisy, but hey it runs not bad then.

 

Nice, i have the same config but 2012 model enjoy your new mac

 

See this thread: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1589140

Mine is almost always completely silent. But I think room temperature is a big factor in addition to system load.