How hot does your 2010 13" MBP run

Was playing some HD youtube videos last night. I notice the laptop warming up so I installed SMC fan control. Looks like my laptop reached 63C and the fan stayed at 2000rpm. At what speed does the fan kick on higher. Also when putting my hand by the vents at the back of the laptop I don't feel air coming out. Looks like my normal temps just browsing the web is around 35C.

 

mine is very similar, right now at 44C browsing internet and watching a film. My fan also only kicks in when it gets hot, im guessing its for power saving. The macbooks can go quite hot before needing the fan, i think my fan kicks in around 70C

 

If you're running YT videos using Flash rather than HTML5, the cpu temp will jump up since Flash requires a good bit of cpu decoding power - and that is a likely explanation of your cited temps.

Fanspeed usually starts at 65, I think. Apple sets the fan thresholds based on engineering requirements of the chassis - you should trust them . Some around here want to run them higher/sooner, but this just increases the noise and uses battery power that doesn't need to be, and is generally of little long-term benefit.

 

So SMC fan control shows that its running at 2000rpm. I know thats the standard for the 13"MBP but is the fan always running at that speed then kicks up when it gets hotter around 65-70c? I guess my question is does it ever go to 0?

 

How does one get OS X to use HTML5 vs Flash for YT videos? Is it browser-specific or does one have to do something additional?

 

When doing basic stuff, my MBP gets to about 45 degrees Celsius. When running Fusion + Win7 as the guest OS, the temp's get to about 65 degrees Celsius.

Does anyone notice that Firefox drives the temperature up also even when just browsing and not playing any videos? I love Firefox, but it's a bit of a CPU hog. Can't wait for FF4 to be released... it's hardware acceleration should cool down the CPU a bit.

 

Maybe this will help:

Firefox consumes a lot of CPU resources

 

The details are somewhere around on YTube, I think - I remember reading about it on Macworld a few months back when they first launched HTML5 compatiblility. I don't spend any great amount of time there so I can't be more specific, sorry.

The other thing is that the newest 10.x update to Flash for Mac is supposed to incorporate the beta changes from Gala into the final release so updating your flash release to offload some of the processing to the graphics chip so that higher-def videos don't chew as much cpu as before. You have to DL the latest Flash player from Adobe's site.

 

On mine the fan starts to go faster when the CPU reaches 70C

 

http://www.youtube.com/html5

 

As I'm surfing the web in Win 7 my GPU is at 59C and CPU 48C.

 

running around 30-40c