Normal temperatures for Macbook?

[cdwheel]

Hello!
My 13 inch Macbook has been getting kind of warm on the right side lately, and with iStat Pro it appears the temperatures of the picture I'm uploading. Are these temperatures normal?? Are the fans okay? I'm not sure, but I think it's been a little slow as well, and I've just bought it 3 months ago...

 

[marold280]

what macbook is it ? plastic or aluminium ?

 

[Fizzoid]

What were you doing at the time the CPU was at 71 degrees?

 

[cdwheel]

it's aluminium!

and I haven't done anything. I had just restarted it, and only firefox and aMSN were opened

 

[marold280]

aMsn sucks everything out of any mac. i wouldnt recommend it. adium or mercury

 

[flopticalcube]

temps look perfectly fine. it should idle at 50-60.

 

[jmccullough108]

They do get really hot.. Check this out,

http://www.intelmactemp.com/list

 

[Andy348]

I'm on a white MB, 2.1, 4GB Ram running:

Firefox
Ventrilo
iTunes

And I'm somewhere in the 30-60 degrees (depending on what part of the computer). These computers do get hot and normally it will regulate it self. I wouldn't worry until its spiking above ~72.

 

[cdwheel]

thanks very much for your answers!

this forum is awesome, cheers!

 

[Fizzoid]

temps look perfectly fine. it should idle at 50-60.

But it's idling at 71, Firefox and aMSN are hardly CPU intensive. Mine will idle with Safari, MSN, and Skype open >50

 

[flopticalcube]

But it's idling at 71, Firefox and aMSN are hardly CPU intensive. Mine will idle with Safari, MSN, and Skype open >50

Its not really idling because he has 30% combined system and user in the CPU. Something is running. Mine idles at 10% system/user with FF, Preview, Transmission and Mail running.

 

[Rhalliwell1]

Its not really idling because he has 30% combined system and user in the CPU. Something is running. Mine idles at 10% system/user with FF, Preview, Transmission and Mail running.

That depends on clock speed. i got Safari, Mail, Address book, Preview, Skype, Adium and Netbeans running ~4-8% idle.

 

[michael.lauden]

temps look perfectly fine. it should idle at 50-60.

yeah i have iTunes, iPhoto, Mail, iChat, Safari (obv), iCal, Stickies and Adium open and i'm not using a power supply... and i'm at 43 C so yeah

 

[Corrosive vinyl]

check out fan control

 

[ChrisA]

yeah i have iTunes, iPhoto, Mail, iChat, Safari (obv), iCal, Stickies and Adium open and i'm not using a power supply... and i'm at 43 C so yeah

What you have loaded and running does not matter. What matters is what you are doing with the computer. The best thing to look at is "Activity meter". Is the CPU near 100% or close to zero. That is what matters.

The aluminum case is designed to be hot. It is a heat sink. The computer is cooled in part by using the case as a heat sink. The other option is to use a fan but people don't like the fan noise. So it's a trade off between fan noise and case temperature. Apple desiged to let the case get warm but you can download a program to control to fans and adjust the trade off more to your liking

 

[flopticalcube]

That depends on clock speed. i got Safari, Mail, Address book, Preview, Skype, Adium and Netbeans running ~4-8% idle.

The OPs is at least as fast as mine.