Ok, dumb question time from a former Windows user.
I love my MBP, but I've noticed that it really does get pretty warm. In reading the various posts I guess this is normal. However, today while I was trying to do a lot of work on-line that included some video classes, it froze up and wouldn't download a thing, either on Safari or Firefox. I noticed it was really, really warm and wondered if that was the problem.
So this is my question: can you hear the fan when it kicks in on the MBP, can you feel the air flow? On my HP that I had before switching, you KNEW the fan was on - it sounded like a jet warming up! However, I've never heard the fan on the MBP and have never felt the air flowing from the fan. Is this normal or is something wrong? Should I get things checked out at a store or is this a common situation?
Thanks.
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Yes, you should hear the fan, and the air coming from the back of the MacBook.
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I have the iStat pro widget, and that shows me the RPM speed of the fans, both L and R, but when it starts to blow, it still shows 1993-2004RPM on the fans.. which is at least weird...
but they do kick in, and it gets cooler, so I have no problem with that... -
Download the iStat Pro widget. You can monitor temperature, fan speed, battery health, amount of battery cycles, CPU and RAM usage, etc. Very useful.
From iStat Pro you can monitor your fan speed (you can also adjust the Mac's fan speed with an application called SMCFanControl). The fans should stay at under 2000 RPM until your CPU temperature is around 65 C or higher. At under 2000 RPM you can barely hear the fans, at around 4000 it should be pretty evident.
Fan on the MBP
Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by gms238, Aug 21, 2007.