What is the Macbook Pro 15 Normal Noise Level?

Hi All,

Ok, i can be extremely paranoid about the noises made by brand new laptops. I just want to know whether the noise i'm hearing at the moment is normal. So what s the normal noise level for the Macbook Pro 15 running on spinning hard drives. Aside from the very light fan noise, the machine makes a faint but low pitched buzzing or humming noise, like a machine noise. Is this normal? Like i said, i might just be paranoid and i'm sure i will get used to the noise if it is normal. But i need to know for sure, particularly before the 14 day period is over.

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See that's the thing. I'm guessing i have the same machine (15 inch and using spinning HDDs). I don't know if it's supposed to be completely silent. Certainly if i have an external hard drive running, then it drowns out any noise from the macbook. But when it's dead quiet, what noises do you hear aside from the very light "blowing" sound that i'm guessing is the fan? My macbook makes another machine noise. It isn't loud or clicking or high pitched. Maybe i'm just being paranoid. I have not had a new laptop for a very long time (like 5 +years) and certainly not a mac, so I don't know what noises to expect.

 

Thanks for the advice. I just check energy saver and found that sleep for the hd is already turned, but in all honesty the noise i'm talking about is such a general machine noise that emanates from all around the machine that i'm guessing it is the fan. I just thought that when people talk about fan noises, they mean a loud blowing sound as opposed to constant buzz or hum. So my question is then how loud is the fan supposed to be? I mentioned above that it's been a while since i bought a laptop so i really don't know what to expect. I have used my brother's macbook air, and didn't notice any noise but then i probably wasn't listening and i'm guessing a 13 inch macbook air will be much quieter. The only way for me to be sure is to compare it with another machine at a shop which is what i'm planning to do.

Edit: actually i noticed that the noise in question is definitely from the left. Not sure if it's the top of bottom though.

 

Ok, this is even more weird guys, because i swear it's a lot more quiet today!!!! Even makes me think i was crazy yesterday!

If it's intermittent then i'm guessing it's a machine vibration of some kind. I ran SMC fan control yesterday and found that the fan is 2000 rpm. This is the minimum and i'm guessing it accounts for the "nearly silent" blowing noise. The noise i'm talking about is a vibration or buzzing/humming sound. On the right side, it's a lot less noticeable and higher pitched. However, on the left there was a much more lower pitched vibration that is definitely perceptible even half a metre away. This seems to have disappeared today! Electronic machinery doesn't somehow "wear in" does it, cause that's the first i've heard!

What makes this that much more worrying is that yes i've not used my laptop for anything besides browsing, so i haven't even pushed the fans or read much of the hard drive.

Token787: are you sure it's completely silent? I'm sure you can at least hear the light blowing noise right which is the fan at 2000 rpm?