In 2012, they added non-symmitrical fins to the cooling fan to reduce high pitch noise. This year, they promoted that they furthered that by adding more irregular fins to it. If anyone has the new Macbook Pro that can compare it, it would be awesome.
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How's the cooling noise with the new Macbook?
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usually the OSX suppresses the fan to run in low speed. You can manually max the fan speed using an app.
What noise lol. Ive yet to hear the fans even spin up, the cooling on this thing must be very efficient. I had 4 tabs open in safari with flash content running in all of them and it just stays silent.
Do you really think fans would turn on with just 4 tabs open?
Well with my MBA just 2 tabs with Flash content had the fans going at full speed, so yes lol.
Comparing a MBA to a MBP, which has a completely different cooling system and an improved CPU... Okay then
No need to take this so seriously, i was just impressed with the cooling on my new laptop.
OP was asking about the cooling noise, and how it differed from the other MacBook Pro. Your saying that you don't hear anything while you're not doing anything intensive doesn't really help at all.
Like i already said on my old machine the fans would come on quite easily, on the new machine ive yet to hear them come on, im well aware that does not answer the OP's question, then again nobody in this thread has including yourself.
alright guys, no need to be fighting over this lol. Me and other prospective buyers might be just interested in the fan performance, so I'm still waiting for more answer..
I use Bootcamp quite a lot and Macbooks keep the fans at full speed when you use Bootcamp. Although you can download fan control app for Bootcamp as well, I dont like risking my 3000+ dollar laptop as those apps are unreliable. So that's one reason I'm interested in this.
I use Bootcamp quite a lot and Macbooks keep the fans at full speed when you use Bootcamp. Although you can download fan control app for Bootcamp as well, I dont like risking my 3000+ dollar laptop as those apps are unreliable. So that's one reason I'm interested in this.
I feel like I did enough testing to characterize it (#466). Handbrake x264 encoding is no Prime95, but it does completely peg the CPU at 100% continuously. This plateaus the temperature at 90C and the power draw at 16W, but the fans only get to barely audible at that point (ear right on keyboard)
GPU stress along with high CPU can push it into the 25W range, but the fan is still only just audible, not loud at all.
Temps never get to 100C like on my 15" 2015 MBP and so there's never any throttling.
GPU stress along with high CPU can push it into the 25W range, but the fan is still only just audible, not loud at all.
Temps never get to 100C like on my 15" 2015 MBP and so there's never any throttling.
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