Anybody got heat-problems with the 2010 Macbook Pro's?

loulou · Post by **loulou** » Mon May 31, 2010 3:24 pm

Hi there!

I just ordered a Macbook Pro, with 2,66 i7 CPU, 8gb RAM, 7200 RPM HD.
But then i read on a site somewhere that these beasts can reach 100 degrees celcius, and shut down when reaching 110 celcius.

Do you think running Ableton Live, plus plugins, or running Traktor will overheat the machine?

Peace!

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Mon May 31, 2010 3:28 pm

I had heat problems with my macbookpro (from march 2008). I recently found out what the problem was.
In the beginning I had a Canon Pixma printer attached at home, and apparently I still had the driver installed on my machine, and this driver was cycling crazy in the background.
So one day, not so long ago, I saw this, and I killed the driver process and uninstalled it totally, and now the temperature of my machine is 40-55 Celsius, compared to the 68-85 Celsius like before...

steevio · Post by **steevio** » Mon May 31, 2010 5:45 pm

my girlfriend is running some serious VJing programs on a new macbook pro
and it gets hot, but doesnt seem to be adversely affected in any way, if thats any help

saying that it doesnt get anywhere near as hot as her old Pentium 4 laptop

loulou · Post by **loulou** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 1:15 am

Okay, i dont really care if it gets hot or not, as long as its not affecting or damaging the machine. But i'll just have to wait and see. Does any of you know how i can see the temp. of the machine?

patrick bateman · Post by **patrick bateman** » Tue Jun 01, 2010 6:48 am

loulou wrote:Okay, i dont really care if it gets hot or not, as long as its not affecting or damaging the machine. But i'll just have to wait and see. Does any of you know how i can see the temp. of the machine?

smcfancontrol is quite good.

someonelikeyou · Post by **someonelikeyou** » Fri Jun 04, 2010 8:01 am

The new MBP get really hot and the fans are loader than 160mm fans in my growroom!!! It's no problem though, just the duel core working hard. iStats is a good app for keeping an eye on things. Don't try to over ride the fans though, let them work.