I recently bought a base model M1 Air last winter in October. It was working very well for the initial days with no heating issues in fact it was not even getting warm, running very efficiently. But for the past 2 weeks, I am noticing overheating even for a casual workload there are no heavy applications installed I normally use VS code, chrome, Figma, and Microsoft Teams. It is important to notice that the summer season is here and my surrounding temp is a bit warm sometimes I know the surrounding temperature does affect the temp of my Macbook but to this certain aspect. The temp of my Air runs between 60 to 70 C and gets so hot as a hot pan to the touch. Also, I can't just wait till the winter season to work.
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Macbook Air m1 heating issues
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nothing at all just the development server which is very lite, it heats up even while watching movies and youtube pretty bad experience
That makes sense. Chrome is notorious for overheating when watching videos. Check your codecs and see if it is using hardware acceleration or software. Try using other browsers like safari and Firefox. What is the CPU and RAM usage?
Closely monitor activity monitor (>_<) and find out which application uses up a lot of CPU cycles in the background. Chrome may not be the only culprit.
Also, casual load means loads that rarely or lightly uses hardware resources, not defined by user feeling. For example, Microsoft Teams is quite heavy because of its design and I would not consider long term Microsoft Teams use as “casual load”. I use that long term on my MacBook Pro 13” and the fan never stops running, albeit in low speed.
Also, casual load means loads that rarely or lightly uses hardware resources, not defined by user feeling. For example, Microsoft Teams is quite heavy because of its design and I would not consider long term Microsoft Teams use as “casual load”. I use that long term on my MacBook Pro 13” and the fan never stops running, albeit in low speed.
Teams is built using electron, which has chromium embedded underneath. Basically a wrapper on top of chromium and node js.