I keep mine on a wooden letter tray with the bottom shelf dedicated for just the mini. Today I felt it - 99 degrees. Took the letter tray out and put it on the desk on a trivet hoping it would cool down - got down to 96. Any suggestions?
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Did the AppleCare chat. They had me do a SMC reset. Turn off, unplug wait 15 seconds, plug in, wait 5 seconds and turn on. Now at 94. What is normal? Has anyone used a stand or one of those fans with a stand - like from Speed Designs? Looked at their video and no one talks - looks too gimmicky.
Idle temps I've seen for the Mini are 30-60c.
Are there any runaway processes running? Startup Activity Monitor and sort by CPU % and look for a single process taking up 100% or more CPU.
Nothing looks too bad - had a photoanyalys type running 95 % for about 3 seconds. Could not get a screen shot of it. Then photolibraryd came up with 28.7%. no clue what that is. Also downloaded the Mac fan control and got temps. AppleCare again did a diagnostic with the option d. Did not see issues. Told me the outside should not be over 95. They want me now to reinstall if I want, but that means losing programs. Files - not big deal - use drop box, but programs and such - pain in the ....
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I did laugh when the apple care guy told me that normal temp of outside is 50-95. I asked if he meant Farh. Yep - gee wiz I wish the area was 50 degrees
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I did laugh when the apple care guy told me that normal temp of outside is 50-95. I asked if he meant Farh. Yep - gee wiz I wish the area was 50 degrees
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Do not reinstall anything.
109F? Fan speed under 1700? No processes going bananas?
I'd say what we have here is a strong case of the normals.
109F? Fan speed under 1700? No processes going bananas?
I'd say what we have here is a strong case of the normals.
Mine has the 64 ram, it gets hot like that when video editing with an external eGPU. My apartment is small and I placed it in front of the AC unit on the wall literally, my desk is against the AC.
It is a Mac problem, they are doing everything slimmer and faster. Probably that is the reason why they are turning into dongles... to keep everything outside the unit.
It is a Mac problem, they are doing everything slimmer and faster. Probably that is the reason why they are turning into dongles... to keep everything outside the unit.
If all these temperatures are in Fahrenheit, this is totally normal.
It can handle 95 Celsius degrees under full continuous load.
It can handle 95 Celsius degrees under full continuous load.
Those temps are nice and cool in a computer context, given that your screen capture shows you're talking Fahrenheit. There's no reason to be concerned whatsoever.
The question was referencing 100 Fahrenheit idle temps.
100 F is not a problem, it is normal.
