MBA 13 heat issue

[jashou]

I have MBA 13 base model with i5 + 128gb ssd

My MBA gets extremely hot and the fan noise gets very loud while watching

netflix + reading some pdf files or even when I'm watching youtube video or

doing lots of basic (ex. safari, iphoto, etc all together) stuff

my cpu A gets to 92C or F or whatever (its from the widget) while watching netflix and fan hits 6500 rpm



is it normal? shall i get an exchange?

I mean literally it feels very hot especially in the black part under the macbook air logo in the screen

what do you guys suggest?

 

[miles01110]

Normal.

 

[cityathrt]

It gets really hot in the black area because all the hot air is getting vented there, right?

 

[KPOM]

It gets really hot in the black area because all the hot air is getting vented there, right?

Yes, that's where the vent is.

 

[WiBu]

Netflix is probably the issue. It plays video through Silverlight which isn't hardware accelerated at the moment, though supposedly version 5 will be.

 

[jashou]

thx guys

I'm glad its not an issue since i was lazy to return/exchange it

but in the same time i'm not glad its not an issue since it gets heated every time I use bunch of apps together and fan noise gets loud (scared to use in library)

well i guess thats what I have to sacrifice for having an ultraportable laptop

still its an amazing laptop i love it

 

[bigp9998]

Netflix is probably the issue. It plays video through Silverlight which isn't hardware accelerated at the moment, though supposedly version 5 will be.

I have the same issue with Netflix. I can deal with the heat + fan noise, but the question is: Is it dangerous to for the fans to be going for an entire full-length movie? I don't want to stop every 15 minutes.

Hopefully they will release a patch for Silverlight or something soon so that the fans are not so loud. I didn't think watching video was considered an "intensive" task anymore.