Interesting... Makes me wonder if I've got a defective unit hereRight now my cpu is at 58 celsius and the fans are at 2k rpm. Only got safari open with four tabs + 1password. No background apps are running. When watching an episode of house last night on safari (flash) my cpu was around 80c and my fans were blazing at 4k rpm. Had maybe 4-5 tabs open and no background stuff. Anyway you could test your heat and fans while watching fullscreen flash with sound?
I just downloaded handbrake and give it a go. About 10 mins of encoding, my 2.13GHz C2D started off max 83C, fan spinning up and once the fan pass beyond 6k, the processor hovers around 73C~76C.More likely we are witnessing some firmware or driver issues. Remember these are brand new machines, and the 1.8GHz Core i7 used in the Air was just released by Intel on June 21. Some bugs that cause the CPU to stay at the higher speeds may be at issue here. Apple had the Core 2 Duo models last October, which were mostly fixed by firmware updates, so I'd give it some time.
FWIW, I'm encoding a DVD on Handbrake right now, and when it started all 4 cores were near 212F/100C, with Handbrake using about 350% CPU (so most of all 4 virtual cores). I could boil water with it if I wanted to, but it has since stabilized at 185/86. It's about as CPU intensive as you can get, but the machine's still plugging away, and I'm posting to the site as it's encoding in the background.
I'm going to use the laptop at constant high CPU processing, guess I should keep my C2D as it has plenty of juice for my need for audio works while keeping the temperature low for my all year summer region.
Not necessarily. The Core i7 will be at maximum CPU for a lot less time than the Core 2 Duo at a comparable task.
When I look at the OPs I don't see any images other but the Bandwith exceeded images..
Is this normal or am I loosing the plot?...
Oops. Looks as though photo bucket failed me. Any other hosting sites that you can suggest?
Oops. Looks as though photo bucket failed me. Any other hosting sites that you can suggest?
First of all, i'd like to say thanks for the imformational posts theSeb, you've swayed my mind to buy the 13' i7.
Now to my question, you said the program that displayed the info about the computer on the desktop was desktop manager? Is it available in the mac app store, or how do you get it?
Secondly, have you done any other performance configurations on your computer? (I'm a windows user atm, hopefully not by the end of next week) Any help would be greatly appreciated
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80C+ and the fan is not running pass 4k? Looks scary to me...