52 is pretty normal. If you are in an air-conditioned room, it will be cooler. Also, having the mbp plugged into a power adapter will make it run 5-10 degrees hotter than when unplugged, or that's just my experience.
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Just got MacBook Pro, overheating like crazy
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I can't wait for the day that 'hot' no longer means 'OMG-turn-me-off-before-I-blow-up'! Maybe I should have a Switching Party to celebrate.MowingDevil said:
It's certainly not average room temperature here in the UK, thank goodness! I'd barely have the energy to lie still and pant.
Liverpool's pretty cool, but Manchester's way cooler!!
Temperature wise ofcourse..
Sounds about right! I'd say cause mine does the same!!
14mths on and it's still ticking!
Dunno what all the fuss is about!!
"Noobs huh!"
Indexing takes a good 10-15 minutes when you first startup your new Mac. It is normal, after the initial index it will begin to cool off as the CPU load goes down
Jeebus, you can't be serious. Not a laptop ? Are you from Mars ?
"Desktop replacement" is a type of laptop. It's still a laptop computer.
Laptop is a slang term that is highly inaccurate. The correct term is "portable computer". Apple never designed them to sit in your lap, and neither did any other company.
I wish the MacBook Pro's had grills down the left and right to allow air flow from the side, over the components and out the exhaust at the back.
Really, when the fans are on 6000rpm and all I'm doing is surfing the net (with 10% CPU usage) it is annoying.
Really, when the fans are on 6000rpm and all I'm doing is surfing the net (with 10% CPU usage) it is annoying.
It did. I want them back if they are funded with the right fans or whatever to properly circulate the air. In fact, I think they are awesome as part of the design. Looks cool, and makes it look powerful, rather than just all pretty.
It did. I want them back if they are funded with the right fans or whatever to properly circulate the air. In fact, I think they are awesome as part of the design. Looks cool, and makes it look powerful, rather than just all pretty.
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But did those PowerBooks run cooler? I never owned one so I'm asking.
That is a perfectly normal temperature. The reason is may feel hotter than other notebooks is because of the aluminum case. Other laptops typically have plastic cases which don't conduct heat as well aluminm, but they run at similar temps. The aluminum acts as a giant heat sink for your CPU, etc. This is probably better for your computer internals, although it sometimes makes holding the MBP a bit difficult.
Absolutely rightLiverpool's pretty cool, but Manchester's way cooler!!
Temperature wise ofcourse..
And with the scope for themed refreshment - Apple pie, Appletiser, those apple-flavoured cable sweet things - I might just do it!MowingDevil said:Life's too short *not* to have a party for switching-giddyup!
I never owned a PowerBook either. I'm curious to see how much of an impact the grills had. Doesn't seem like the grills provided much air flow though. The optical drive would be obstructing them.
Still, a fan on the bottom of the case with some air vents would help.
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Jeebus, you can't be serious. Not a laptop ? Are you from Mars ?
"Desktop replacement" is a type of laptop. It's still a laptop computer.
eh eh
Always the same story. Years ago the MBP was a laptop also in Apple's definitions. Then people started reclaiming and it became a notebook not to be used on your lap. Too hot.
The MP's external surface is cooler, it's plastic. MBP is aluminum and basically you cannot touch it in hot months without sweating as in a soccer match. Its fans rarely spin up: so it's silent enough.
It's the price you pay in order to proudly say you have an aluminum case and silent fans
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I have a Macbook Pro 15" and while I can't report specific temps, I do know that I'm getting the rainbow wheel of death. This happens a lot. I've already run a virus program as well as the hardware tester. I have 3 GB of ram, and about 60+ GB of storage left.
The wheel essentially freezes the computer from all functions forcing me to restart. This occurs during basic tasks like Itunes, or firefox/mozilla, etc...
I'm convinced its the overheating since most of the time the fan is running when the wheel appears. Any other suggestions? I'd hate to reinstall the OS and lose all of my data.
There's something definitely wrong...
(oh yah, disk utility'd the thing to death)
The wheel essentially freezes the computer from all functions forcing me to restart. This occurs during basic tasks like Itunes, or firefox/mozilla, etc...
I'm convinced its the overheating since most of the time the fan is running when the wheel appears. Any other suggestions? I'd hate to reinstall the OS and lose all of my data.
There's something definitely wrong...
(oh yah, disk utility'd the thing to death)
For a laptop 52C is nothing. If it gets to 105C then be worried. 105C is the max operating temp for the CPU. Using my MBP, temps are around 120F for light tasks and when usig flash around 150-160F and when using handbreak, around 170-195F it reaches 195F and the fan slowly spins up to 6200 RPM around 180 but it an get as high as 195F for me. The fan does bring it down to 170F though.
You do realize you just responded to a thread that's over 2 years old? I'm sure the OP has moved on by now.
Download iStat Pro (it's free) and then you can see temperatures. You can then report them on here & we'll take a look. Also tell us what kind of MBP you have (model, year, CPU etc)
You can force your Mac to work hard by opening two Terminal windows and entering the following text into each one
yes > /dev/null <enter>
This forces the CPU into an endless loop at 100% load. You need two terminal windows, one for each core of your dual core processor.
Watch iStat Pro temperatures and fan speeds. If/when your Mac beachballs, what are the temperatures?
oh, and you might want to start a new thread, people are unlikely to look at a 2 year old thread......
You do realize you just responded to a thread that's over 2 years old? I'm sure the OP has moved on by now.
Didn't see the old date.
My bad.
Are you running firefox or chrome? My mbp 15 i5 gets very hot when I'm running either of these with multiple tabs open. Just because of this I stick t safari.
my 15" 17 hits 100c everytime im encoding videos with Roxio Toast. The fans kick in and it usually settles in the high 80s low 90s then back to 50ish degrees C once its "idling". Using smc, can get the temps lower by spinning the fans faster, but usually let the notebook manage the fan speed
consider buying a laptop cooling fan
i got my mbp dec 09 and i noticed it started heating up after 2 months into using it.. another 2 months later, i got a usb plug-in cooling fan. now it doesn't heat up at all. you're not suppose to leave your mbp on any surface that block it from radiating out the heat. because mbp's dont have a fan like other laptops like hp or sony or etc, u hav to type on cooler surfaces.. it uses its outer aluminium shell to emit heat. plus, if u let ur laptop continue to heat up without attending to it, it shortens the lifespan of ur laptop.
i got my mbp dec 09 and i noticed it started heating up after 2 months into using it.. another 2 months later, i got a usb plug-in cooling fan. now it doesn't heat up at all. you're not suppose to leave your mbp on any surface that block it from radiating out the heat. because mbp's dont have a fan like other laptops like hp or sony or etc, u hav to type on cooler surfaces.. it uses its outer aluminium shell to emit heat. plus, if u let ur laptop continue to heat up without attending to it, it shortens the lifespan of ur laptop.