My Mac Book Pro makes noises

Does anyone know if it is normal for a mac to sound like a motorboat? It's not as loud as a motorboat... but it has the same general type of sound. I guess a better way to describe it is a little more than a constant purr. Any ideas?

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"Does anyone know if it is normal for a mac to sound like a motorboat?"
No it is not normal.
Is the "sound" coming from your fans or HD? For fan noise see the following KB Article: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411 Apple Portables: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)
For HD noise check out the following:
Mac OS X 10.6 Help: Checking a disk to see if it’s going to fail
Failing Hard Drive Sounds
How to Tell When Your Hard Drive is Going to Fail

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can i stop this somehow?do i have to be concerned?

You might download the widget "iStatPro" from the Apple site and look at it when the noise occurs. See what your fans are doing, and see if you can associate the noise with the fans and the internal temperature of your computer. The fans in my MBP idle at around 2000 RPM. If yours do the same, run at about the same speed, and then speed up for a while if the temperature goes up, then they are probably working as they should. You could post back with some actual speeds and temperatures if you want to verify that what you are experiencing is normal.
If, however, the fans are operating at very different speeds, or one isn't operating at all and the other is going very fast, then you could have a problem with either a fan or a thermal sensor. If you think you might, run the Apple Hardware Test--it will give you an error message if there is a problem.
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Noise makers on a MBP are the fan(s), hard drive and DVD drive. Run an Apple hardware test and see if it picks up any problems:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1509
Open the MBP and see if there is and dirt or debris inside, particularly in the fans. If so, clean it out.
If no success on the afore mentioned, make an appointment at an Apple store genius bar for a free evaluation.
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Here we go:
Shut down your Mac.
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Turn on the computer.
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Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.
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-> [[Troubleshooting extensions and themes]]
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A MacBook Air is more portable. An addon Apple Thunderbolt display gives almost all the same ports as a Pro, but then it loses its portability.
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As for your subject line, Apple does not pre-announce hardware updates except on rare occasions, and we can't speculate as to when they might release a new one. Watch http://www.apple.com/pr/
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Hi everyone.
I just bought an mac book pro retina , 15 inches , 2 GHz, Core i7, 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3. I'm a programmer , so, I really don't give to the mac book an exhaustive use, so the performance of the machine is good for me. But recently , I discovery some kind of issue : a noise fan when I reproduce a video from Internet, in full screen mode.
I download the iStatus Menus program for mac, to has a complete dashboard of the situation , and I got this :
1) When recently start the mac book, the statistics are
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But , just opened a video in full screen , a few seconds after opened start it, the machine increase the temperature from (normal) 40° to 98° (so high), and the statistics change dramatically , as follow :
As you can see, the fan revolution increase 3x , from 2000 to 6000 . The use of Google Helper increase over 200% . And obviously the noise fan make me crazy,
I've only seen this "issue" on that scenario, ( internet video full screen reproduction ). That's not happen , even when many applications are open.
Should I worry about this ?, or, this is a normal behaviour on the machine ?.
I'll appreciate any advice or answer.
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You may try to restart your computer in Safe mode by taking these steps:
- Click on the Apple sign() at the upper left corner of the Desktop, select 'Shut down' from a drop-down menu;
- Wait until your computer turns off, then press the Power button(⌽);
- Immediately after you hear the startup tone, press and hold the Shift(⇧) key. It should be held as soon as possible after the startup tone, but not before the tone;
- Release the Shift(⇧) key when you see a grey Apple sign() and the progress bar below;
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Once you've seen the Desktop, start a Disk Utility scan to detect and repair file system errors:
- Open Disk Utility application:
1. Click on Finder at the bottom of your Desktop;
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- Once the routine finished, click on ""Verify Disc Permissions"", after it's done, click on 'Repair Disc Permissions';
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