Macbook Pro too HOT!!!

[netdog]

I find that Skype, Safari and VMWare Fusion are all prone to memory leaks and then have a tendency to start pounding wildly on the processor.

 

[tdream]

It's something you have to learn to live with. Don't expect to run it on your lap and have it not get hot. Download a CPU monitor and make sure there are no processes hogging the CPU. Youtube and youtube HD take a lot of cpu power.

 

[helix21]

Mine is rarely ever hot. Highest is CPU and runs at about 55C with iTunes, Firefox, Word and Mail open and goes up to 88C when encoding video.

They are nice, cool notebooks

 

[justaregularjoe]

thanks thewireman but i'd rather wipe my snow leopard partition and use windows 7 completely.

zing.

Sounds like a bad fan. Maybe a logic board.

call AppleCare.

 

[wilro15]

Its also silly for us to have to install programs to cool down our notebooks, even when everything is working perfect the stock fan settings come on way to late and slow.

Ditto. It doesn't seem right to me either.

 

[juniorhifikit]

Take it to your nearest apple store and show the problem to a genius.

Well, I took it back to the service center where the REAL geniuses are... They opened Activity Monitor and saw that the print job manager was stuck chewing on some printers that weren't even there, gobbling 100% of one of my processors. Now the MBP is back to normal - battery life too!

Pays to check the ol' Activity Monitor when things are acting up!

 

[Habitus]

Hi, I have a month old macbook pro 13" running 10.6.2 and its running at 75-80C! I'm just running itunes, skype, safari. compared to my windows 7 on bootcamp which runs at only 35-40C. any of you guys have experienced like this?

i have checked system preference but cant find any settings to lower my cpu speed. please enlighten me. thank you!

Use smcfancontrol!

Habitus

 

[ouimetnick]

Hi, I have a month old macbook pro 13" running 10.6.2 and its running at 75-80C! I'm just running itunes, skype, safari. compared to my windows 7 on bootcamp which runs at only 35-40C. any of you guys have experienced like this?

i have checked system preference but cant find any settings to lower my cpu speed. please enlighten me. thank you!

Its fine. Does anyone bother to dosome googling to find out that the CPU is fine until 105C? If it goes past 95C, then I would be a bit concerned. But if the Activity Moniter shows a load being put on the CPU, and its under the 105C, don't worry, and enjoy your computer.

 

[andrew086]

maybe it's because OS X takes up like 25% of the CPU when you're just scrolling. open up activity monitor and watch how high the CPU usage gets when you scroll quickly through a web page, and it takes even more when you're using intertial scrolling.

 

[cloroxbleach4]

Those temperatures aren't that hot. The only time I see those is when i'm using vmware fusion or putting my laptop on a blanket. You'll be fine.