the New MBP... SMC Fan Control.. Not Supported?

[sukanas]

i tried running smc fan control but it says that my laptop is not supported o_o..


btw, i was curious, the laptop did run at 80C deg when i ran wc and it runs around 65 C on average.. ie webrowing, itunes, hotter w/ aperture (i know.. ironic huh w/ glossy, lol)

but with the laptop running hot, is it necessary to have a program like smc fan control to kick in and 'force' the fan to cool it down? or should the mac be fine running hot once in a while?

note: the bottom gets hot.. not to the point where it burns but to the point where im like whoa.. i hope this laptop will be ok..




oh shoot mod, can you move this to the MBP section? my mistake.. sorry

 

[kenned]

I think 80c isn't too bad. Atleast my old laptop hit 100c under full load, didn't fail. It had the 8600M GT chip though.

I wouldn't be too worried about that. It's pretty sure to say that a new version of SMC Fan Control will be coming out soon to support the newer models.

 

[Sun Baked]

New Nvidia MCP97 chipset in the new MacBooks, likely a bit of a change in the way temps and power are controlled.

Give them time to update.

 

[PeterQC]

If you don't do any graphical intensive process you should switch on the 9400m and it'll be a lot more cool.