MBA EXTREMELY hot during FTP transfer

[matthewHUB]

Hi all,

I've been updating my website, and my MBA is unbelievably hot during the FTP transfer. Up to 72 degrees and fan on at 6200rpm. too hot to touch underneath.

I have the 1.8/SSD. HOw come it's getting so hot? it can't be that CPU intensive... and clearly reading from the hard drive shouldn't have any heat at all.

thoughts?

 

[aristobrat]

I'd run Activity Monitor (or one of the iStat widgets) and make absolutely sure that nothing's pegging the CPU.

 

[Sesshi]

Oh - but it is for some reason. Sustained I/O cranks up the fans to way more noise than any Windows ultraportable I've owned, although the externals don't seem to get as crazy hot as MBP's used to.

 

[matthewHUB]

hmm thats weird. it was almost too hot to touch. i called apple and they suggested taking it in to the store. reckon i have a defective MBA?