Macbook runs hot
Hello all, my '06 Macbook recently started getting very hot, even when I'm not running much. It's been slowly creeping up temp wise over the last few months, but this week it's gotten pretty bad.
According to iStat Pro, the CPU temp is currently 86℃ (184℉) and I'm only running Firefox and TextEdit, with a laptop cooling fan, and the ambient temp of the room is in the low 70s. The exhaust fans are on (6208rpm), but it still seems pretty hot. Other threads pointed me to http://www.intelmactemp.com/list, and my temps seem to be on the high end.
Is there any way I can remedy this? Or is it even worth fixing at this point? I usually run several programs at once, and I'm worried that this problem is only going to get worse, and eventually kill my poor little mac.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
You might try opening Activity Monitor (Utilities folder).....click on the CPU tab....from the top of the window click the drop down menu and select 'All Processes'.....look for something using double or even triple digit CPU percentages.....
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heat with the battery in, all other things seeming to
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Mid 2013 macbook air: battery drain / running hot
Hi there,
For the last couple weeks my MBA starts to run hot and drain battery fast if I've been using it for a few hours.
I use it a lot on most days and connect to powercord only once it drops down low, like below 20%.
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Copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C.
7. Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V). The text you pasted should vanish immediately. If it doesn't, press the return key.
8. If you see an error message in the Terminal window such as "syntax error," enter
exec bash
and press return. Then paste the script again.
9. If you're logged in as an administrator, you'll be prompted for your login password. Nothing will be displayed when you type it. You will not see the usual dots in place of typed characters. Make sure caps lock is off. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you make three failed attempts to enter the password, the test will run anyway, but it will produce less information. In most cases, the difference is not important. If you don't know the password, or if you prefer not to enter it, press the key combination control-C or just press return three times at the password prompt. Again, the script will still run.
If you're not logged in as an administrator, you won't be prompted for a password. The test will still run. It just won't do anything that requires administrator privileges.
10. The test may take a few minutes to run, depending on how many files you have and the speed of the computer. A computer that's abnormally slow may take longer to run the test. While it's running, there will be nothing in the Terminal window and no indication of progress. Wait for the line
[Process completed]
to appear. If you don't see it within half an hour or so, the test probably won't complete in a reasonable time. In that case, close the Terminal window and report the results. No harm will be done.
11. When the test is complete, quit Terminal. The results will have been copied to the Clipboard automatically. They are not shown in the Terminal window. Please don't copy anything from there. All you have to do is start a reply to this comment and then paste by pressing command-V again.
If any private information, such as your name or email address, appears in the results, anonymize it before posting. Usually that won't be necessary.
12. When you post the results, you might see the message, "You have included content in your post that is not permitted." It means that the forum software has misidentified something in the post as a violation of the rules. If that happens, please post the test results on Pastebin, then post a link here to the page you created.
Note: This is a public forum, and others may give you advice based on the results of the test. They speak only for themselves, and I don't necessarily agree with them.
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I have a 2011 MacBook Pro, OS X 10.6.8, 2.2 GHz Intel Core i7, 4 GB 1333 MHz DDR3. This is my first computer so don't know anything about trouble shooting. A week before the warranty expired, I took my computer to Apple to be checked. I was told that my hard drive was bad and they replaced the hard drive. Since then, my computer runs hot most of the time and the fan is constantly coming on, which is good My computer rarely ran hot with the original hard drive. What would be causing this?
racergirl,
have you tried resetting your MacBook Pro’s System Management Controller, to see if that makes a difference with the heat? -
My new MacBook Pro seems to run hot. Only have Safari with one window and Finder running. Is this normal?
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time, then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Also, it helps to tell us what the temperatures are because we don't know what you mean by "hot." -
Safari 6 makes macbook pro run hot.
Hello, this is my first post in this forum.
I've noticed that often Safari makes macbook pro run hot. The fans speed up even though I don't have that many applications open and only a few Safari tabs open.
The only way to slow down the fan is to quit safari and open it. Did anyone else also notice this?
Also I have noticed that Safari doesn't display texts (especially in facebook chat) properly.Try trashing the Safari cache more often ...
From the Safari menu bar click Safari > Reset Safari
Select Clear History (also empties the cache)
Deselect the remaining boxes then click Reset.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test.
If that doesn't help, check Safari > Preferences > Extensions
If there are any installed, turn that OFF, quit and relaunch Safari to test again.
Emptying the cache and deleting history may also help the Facebook text issue. -
My macbook is running hot even when im not doing much but googling or looking up things. What should I do?
Check out the Apple article below for trouble shooting ideas.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1473
Stedman -
Safari webpage preview fetcher high CPU usage, runs hot Macbook Pro, fan
Even when turned off in Safari Preferences, safari webpage preview fetcher starts up and starts using high CPU % (99.8% when checked on Activity Monitor!). Macbook starts running hot, fan starts running on high. You can force quit safari webpage preview fetcher in Activity Monitor, but it starts itself back up again!
Well, I disabled safari webpage preview in preferences, and rebooted, zapping the pram and it hasn't restarted, and I haven't had the high fan / hot running so yay!
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I have a first gen MacBook Pro. 2.16 GHz with 2 GB of RAM. I have noticed out of all the MacBook Pros I get at work, mine runs the hottest. I use SMC Fan Control to give me my temps. Mine with iTunes, Entourage, FireFox, and Adium running at default fan speed of 2000 RPM, my temps get to 163-167 F. I tested another non Core 2 Duo with the same specs as mine, and same programs. It not only ran cooler, but 20-30 degrees cooler at the default fan speed. A few of my co-workers who had early MBPs say that their temps normally averaged 100-120 F at the default speed, but they would bump it up to 3000-4000 to get it cooler. I had to run my fan at 6000 RPM to even get it to be nearly as cool as these other MacBook Pros at my work. I am definitely not to happy running the fan at 6000 RPM to get it even bearable on my lap. I know that the first gen MBPs run hot, but god 30 degrees hotter? What can I do about this?
They run hotter and work fine. Installing haxies that disable a CPU sounds totally daft and I certainly would not buy a dual core computer then use one core.
There are a number of cooling pads with fans that add additional cooling and protect the motherlode when using on your lap. -
MacBook Pro with Yosemite 10.10.4 running hot and slow. HP file is hogging all the memory
My MacBook Pro (late 2011, core i-7) running OS X 10.10.4 is running hot and very slow with the fan screaming . Activity Monitor shows a process called com.hp.devicemodel.TransportProxy is hogging almost all the memory and very high CPU activity. How can I get it to stop. Force quit will not shut it down. I would delete the file, but don't know where it is. Can someone please offer some help? Thanks, Tom
Try to uninstall all HP software (should be in Macintosh HD/Applications/HP folder It should have an uninstaller within that folder. My computer settled down just as soon as I finished the uninstall. Went back into the system preferences and reinstalled my printer and everything seems OK now. Hope it works for you.
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