Should I be a hair worried now?

[uberamd]

I love my MacBook Air. I have had it for just over a year (forgot to buy extended AppleCare), and it has been alright. I have had 3 issues with it (dead screen on arrival, dead bluetooth, broken hinges) which were all repaired within warranty.

All of that aside, I was doing some light video work a few days ago and the thing hit 219 degrees fahrenheit (104 Celsius)! The thing was actually causing severe discomfort in my hand when I went to go pick it up. Moreover, I was running Coolbook on this thing...

Has anyone else reached 219F+ (104C+)? I am worried that this will cause hardware failure and since I am out of warranty I can't really afford $800 to replace a bum part because it died from extreme heat.

For reference my house was 68 degrees at the time.

 

[tsubikiddo]

Has anyone else reached 219F+ (104C+)? I am worried that this will cause hardware failure and since I am out of warranty I can't really afford $800 to replace a bum part because it died from extreme heat.

For reference my house was 68 degrees at the time.

Nope, only managed to top at 75C
129F/104C is definitely way too hot, not even the nVidia GTX480 works at that temperature
Have you tried re-applying the thermal paste? Also, considering using SpeedFan and set a higher minimum fan speed.

 

[uberamd]

Nope, only managed to top at 75C
129F/104C is definitely way too hot, not even the nVidia GTX480 works at that temperature
Have you tried re-applying the thermal paste? Also, considering using SpeedFan and set a higher minimum fan speed.

I have speedfan on there, it was cooking along at 6000rpm the entire time.

 

[Hellhammer]

Not sure about Air but someones MBP reached 106 Celsius https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/911074/

As far as I know, 68F is still within the operating temp thus Apple should repair it under warranty in case of issue. It's their problem if the cooling system is poorly designed

 

[Spacekatgal]

Not sure about Air but someones MBP reached 106 Celsius https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/911074/

As far as I know, 68F is still within the operating temp thus Apple should repair it under warranty in case of issue. It's their problem if the cooling system is poorly designed

3 in-warranty repairs = New Laptop, as I understand it. I'm just saying, if you took it in for another repair, you might get an MBA without such constant problems.

 

[wildjohn999]

I'm amazed the OP got 104C, I was watching HD trailers on Youtube and got to 98C and the MBA would freeze and stutter back to life every two minutes or so that I gave up and went over to Apple's trailer site.

 

[tsubikiddo]

3 in-warranty repairs = New Laptop, as I understand it. I'm just saying, if you took it in for another repair, you might get an MBA without such constant problems.

AFAIK, it needs to be 3 repairs of the same component(s) in order to be qualified for a straight-out new machine on the 4th time.
Of course, the repair technicians or store managers could be a lot friendlier and just given the customer a new one after a couple of re-visit