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Is your Macbook Pro silent?
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Mine is almost silent.
If nothing else is on in the room all I hear is the fans idling at 2000rpm and the ringing in my ears
It's a computer. It has fans. It has a hard drive. It has power. It is destined to make noise.
FYI: Even ipods make noise.. and they dont have a fan.
The same happens to me with my MBP. It doesn't bother me that much because my mind is always on something else.
A computer is a machine that has moving parts,of course its gonna make noises of some sorts now and again
Granted, but my old Mac Pro which was also a computer with moving parts etc was pretty much DEAD quite, I never noticed any noise whatsoever.
Well, when I got my MBP I was surprised, as I had seen people describe it many times as "silent" or "almost silent". And yes, there is a constant fan sort of noise even when the machine is just idle. There's no way it could be considered "almost silent". My iPhone is "almost silent".
It's all subjective - I work in audio too, so "silent" for me (and probably you) clearly isn't what a lot of people consider it to be, or mean.
It is, however, "silent" compared to my old PowerMac G4 mirrored-drive-doors, and my PowerMac G5! When the fans are at ~2000rpm that is - it makes a right racket when it's actually doing anything.
It's no problem though, most of the time.
It's all subjective - I work in audio too, so "silent" for me (and probably you) clearly isn't what a lot of people consider it to be, or mean.
It is, however, "silent" compared to my old PowerMac G4 mirrored-drive-doors, and my PowerMac G5! When the fans are at ~2000rpm that is - it makes a right racket when it's actually doing anything.
It's no problem though, most of the time.
i can't wait until computers are made entirely from silicon. no moving parts. better still, we just buy a macbook update for our brains and then we do it all IN OUR MINDS. oh god the silence! the beautiful beautiful silence!!
New Thread : 'Anyone elses macbookbrain making a weird humming noise?!'
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I have yet to hear my MBP make a noise except for the dvd drive check at boot (and from the speakers obviously). It's in a room with a fairly noisy desktop, and there is some other background noise (central heat fan, refrigerator from the kitchen a times) but I have put my ear up real close and still have not heard anything. Plus, it runs COLD... I've been using it on my lap and have only felt it get warmish top or bottom. Loving it!!
My MBP is usually almost silent, except when I have it booted into Windows and am doing something I/O-intensive. Then, the fans kick in at full speed.
Mine is fairly quiet when it isn't doing something intensive. I used SMC fan control to increase the speed of the fan by a few rpm and that actually improved the noise a bit, made it easier to tune out.
It does get loud when the fans kick in when playing a game or something, but the volume of the game is usually enough to drown it out.
It does get loud when the fans kick in when playing a game or something, but the volume of the game is usually enough to drown it out.
Mine is almost dead silent, I can only hear the hard drive writing, and even that is very, very quiet. I get no fan noise at all.
Louder than previous. Any feeback?
Just bought a 2.5 MBP with 250 hard drive and 4 G ram. I also have a 2.33 200 hard drive with 3 g ram that i bought about a year ago. My new one is louder than my old one. When I say louder, you can hear the fans running. My old one you would literally think was powered off.
Any suggestions or is this normal?
Just bought a 2.5 MBP with 250 hard drive and 4 G ram. I also have a 2.33 200 hard drive with 3 g ram that i bought about a year ago. My new one is louder than my old one. When I say louder, you can hear the fans running. My old one you would literally think was powered off.
Any suggestions or is this normal?