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    iBook noisy fan.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by heaveny38, May 13, 2006.

  1. heaveny38

    heaveny38 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi,

    It's been a couple of weeks now that I have my new ibook 12" and overall I'm pretty satisfied. Some of my fears happened to be true, while most were not :)

    But there is one thing that's annoying me a little. I read everywhere that the ibook was dead silent and that its fan was almost inaudible, but I beg to differ. Mine is dead silent when temperatures are kept in check, but when the thing starts to heat up, the fan starts, and it's not quiet at all.

    It makes kind of a two-tone noise, one standard semi-loud buzzing noise, and a kind of stable rattling noise. Well, all in all it's not nearly silent at all...

    Anyone experienced this, could I have a faulty fan?
     
    heaveny38, May 13, 2006
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    Thats odd, every review I have read on them said they were silent. Maybe call Apple and ask them about it.
     
    cycloneguy2618, May 14, 2006
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    my ibooks fan only kicks in to high when the temp goes over 60 C (basically gaming/vid editing) and sounds the same as you say. given its size and probable very high speed, i think that the weird sounds are fine. When under that temp, its silent, can only hear it when holding the notebook right next to my ear.
     
    RadcomTxx, May 14, 2006
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    I wouldn't bother with a vacumn. For a desktop, just from time to time open it and use compressed air to clear the dust, similarily for a laptop. for an ibook, not much you can do to really try to really clear the dust out with its complicated desing.
     
    RadcomTxx, May 15, 2006
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    heaveny38 Notebook Consultant

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    Thanks RadComTxx. It's true, it indeed only starts up when the CPU usage is high for a long period of time, then heat builds up to higher than 60, that's exactly what's happening. However, I was used to my other laptop's fan, which even at full speed wasn't as loud as this one's only speed. And the two tone sound is so weird, it sounds as if the fan was about to die :)

    For example, currently, many different tasks have kept the CPU above 80% for a while, and hear it comes (word play), and now it's been lower for a while, so it just stopped... It's just that it's all or nothing, dead-silent or noisy.

    Anyway, so much noise for a so slow CPU, man does it choke at everything... I thought a G4 was like a P3, at first, but I've noticed and read that it's even slower... Guess I've been had :)
     
    heaveny38, May 15, 2006
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