New Core i7 MacBook Pros reaching 100 degrees celsius.
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[quote]PC Authority was putting their new 17-inch, Core i7 MacBook Pro through their typical battery of benchmarks. Then, the chassis grew hot and a series of strange errors began to occur.
The only way they could complete the testing was to turn the MBP on its side. The problem had to be heat.
So PC Authority tried more tests (in both Boot Camp and OS X) while tracking CPU temperatures all the while. Skeptical of their own results, they turned off the system overnight and tested things again.
In both instances, Cinebench—which is designed to tax the CPU in full—was able to heat the actual i7 cores to temperatures around 101°C, or almost 214°F.
That's hotter than the boiling point of water.
When the tests were repeated on a Fujitsu Lifebook SH 760 (loaded with the same i7 processor, but also a copper heatsink that vents out of side of a plastic chassis), the CPU was found to run at 81°C, or 178°F.
To be fair, PC Authority admits that everyday use only cranked up the heat of the MBP CPU to around 194°F (still significantly hotter than the Fujitsu working at max CPU capacity)—but here's the rub: The MBP 17 isn't the sort of computer you buy for everyday use. You buy it to have a mobile processing workhorse. And it's hard to imagine that professionals won't find themselves dealing with these heat issues. Also, seeing these results in the 17-inch model makes us wonder, how will the smaller, 15-inch i7 deal with the heat?[/quote]
Source: [url]http://gizmodo.com/5524473/core-i7-macbook-pro-could-make-water-boil[/url]
See, it just works. Apple have made sure that you can boil your water and cook food anywhere in the world. It's magical and revolutionary. You won't see this feature on any other companies laptops. Apple are special and have really set the bar this time.
That's awesome. Might buy one of these now!
Haha, I love the picture in the comments:
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The older MBPs had huge problems with heat distibution, perhaps their 'world renowned' designers should've focused on eliminating that problem rather than sticking a processor with the energy output of a small sun in there instead.
[QUOTE=Generic-Monk;21569469]The older MBPs had huge problems with heat distibution, perhaps their 'world renowned' designers should've focused on eliminating that problem rather than sticking a processor with the energy output of a small sun in there instead.[/QUOTE]
The quad core mobile i7's are hundreds of times worse. Im sure i heard these were more energy effiecient than the core 2 duos
My 13" Macbook Pro can easily heat up to around 105C, but apparently this is "normal". Doesn't really bother me, it's under warranty for 3 years so if it kills itself they can repair it for me.
[QUOTE=Hexxeh;21569780]My 13" Macbook Pro can easily heat up to around 105C[/QUOTE]
yeah that's probably not healthy
for the laptop or your sperm
[QUOTE=Generic-Monk;21569469]The older MBPs had huge problems with heat distibution, perhaps their 'world renowned' designers should've focused on eliminating that problem rather than sticking a processor with the energy output of a small sun in there instead.[/QUOTE]
I think it's do with the fans more than anything. The fans have a threshold to hit before they start speeding up (like most computers), I'm pretty sure the threshold is quite high to keep the noise from fan speed down. You can get applications that will actually let you change this, which fixed the overheating problem for a lot of people. I think that Apple did make a firmware update as well after enough people complained.
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[QUOTE=Hexxeh;21569780]My 13" Macbook Pro can easily heat up to around 105C, but apparently this is "normal". Doesn't really bother me, it's under warranty for 3 years so if it kills itself they can repair it for me.[/QUOTE]
try using a fan control app
[QUOTE=Marlamin;21569358]That's awesome. Might buy one of these now!
Haha, I love the picture in the comments:
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I'll buy 6!
214°F is hot.
[QUOTE=Generic-Monk;21569794]yeah that's probably not healthy
for the laptop or your sperm[/QUOTE]
It's on a desk, only gets this hot in Boot Camp really.
[QUOTE=toxicpiano;21569811]try using a fan control app[/QUOTE]
This helps, but it's noisy and like I said, warranty is there so I don't mind.
And I thought my MacBook was overheating with it's 60°C.
Yeah in my experience my MBP basically refuses to ever make the fans go audible and so it will do like 80-90 degrees with stock fan speed. The only reason I have confidence in it is cause my mates Macbook cooked itself playing Peggle and the fan hit 6000rpm, when default is only 2000rpm
It'll keep you warm in the winter. See Apple was actually thinking of you. :)
[QUOTE=Informative Man;21570059]214°F is hot.[/QUOTE]
Fucking hell informative man where the hell have you been. I never knew 214°F was hot before you told me.
And I thought my MacBook Pro 13" was hot.
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