MacBook Pro Running HOT

[GGJstudios]

so do you think it should run a little bit cooler than this ?, because mine doing nothing i mean nothing is idling around 65C

It's probably not truly idle. Launch Activity Monitor and change "My Processes" at the top to "All Processes". Then look to see what may be consuming system resources.

who told me these info was an apple tech when i called last nigh lol, he told me your notebook shoudent exeeds these temps that are on the apple website

Remember "Genius" is their job title, not an indication of their knowledge, experience or intelligence.

 

[ividify]

I installed iStat Pro and now im getting accurate heat readings.
Here's a list of my current temps while using Google Chrome on my desk with nothing else running in the background.

(Temps are in Celsius)
Hard Drive: 27
CPU: 44
Enclosure Base: 28
Enclosure Base 2: 28
Enclosure Base 3: 26
Heatsink B: 40
Northbridge: 36

Are these temperatures about normal?

 

[GGJstudios]

Are these temperatures about normal?

Quite normal.

 

[GuitarG20]

I installed iStat Pro and now im getting accurate heat readings.
Here's a list of my current temps while using Google Chrome on my desk with nothing else running in the background.

(Temps are in Celsius)
Hard Drive: 27
CPU: 44
Enclosure Base: 28
Enclosure Base 2: 28
Enclosure Base 3: 26
Heatsink B: 40
Northbridge: 36

Are these temperatures about normal?

very much so, yeah.

 

[Doward]

Wellllll since this got brought back from the dead....

1) The REAL reason your Macbook Pro is running hot:
Yep, your MacBook Pro is running too hot!

2) The CORRECT solution for this problem:

For reference, I currently have:

1 youtube 1080p video playing
12 tabs open in Chrome
Pandora playing
My XP VirtualBox machine up and running (doing some Visual Studio programming)

Currently sitting @ 160F (71C) with fans @ 2000 rpm. I've been running like this for about an hour and a half now.

Over my brightness keys I can feel some heat, but they aren't 'hot' - Oh wait, I have a thermal gun here @ work, hang on:

103F (39C) over the F1 key, 106F (41C) over the F2 key.

There's some data for ya

*edit* - hang on, I want to get a reading to compare apples to apples of GuitarG20's readings.

Alright, took a break, closed all but Chrome and a couple MacRumor tabs. 30 minutes to let temps stabilize, and here's what we have:

Temps in F (C in parenthesis)

CPU: 92F (33C)
Enclosure Base: 79F (26C)
Enclosure Base 2: 79F (26C)
Enclosure Base 3: 81F (27C)
Heatsink B: 83F (28C)
Above F1 key: 81F (27C)
Above F2 key: 82F (27.5C)

Desk Temperature: 78F (25.5C)

Just food for thought

 

[lagisibuk]

i bought in april 2011 macbook pro 13 inch, 2.3GHZ core i5, 8gb DDR3, and the temps on it is very hot, it idles at 60C and under load is 95C i find this really really hot, is that normal for a macbook pro to be that hot???

something wrong here...

 

[Quadra700]

First thing i did was to remove the thermal compound on mine and replace it with some Arctic Silver 5, made about a 20c difference but from your pics above their is something wrong with the cooling there. Is it under warranty?

Cheers,