Collider
Senior member
Just switched from Macbook Air 13 to Pro Retina 15, 2.5 i7, Iris GPU
First thing I'm noticing is the temperature, the case is constantly warm. My Air was cold to the touch during heavy everyday usage, and would only get hot when I was installing or gaming.
On the new Macbook Pro (new mid 2014 model) temps with general usage are at 60, which is ok I guess. However even at 20-50% load I've seen it hit 100. I never would allow my desktop CPU to hit anywhere even close to that, not sure how Apple is OK with this.
Supposedly the chip should be throttled according to thermal limits. The fan does kick in at 80-90c.
My use case: development work, running parallels VM, Photoshop, etc.
First of, is this normal?
And any tips for keeping the temps down (..maybe anything similar to CPU throttling in Windows Power Options)?
First thing I'm noticing is the temperature, the case is constantly warm. My Air was cold to the touch during heavy everyday usage, and would only get hot when I was installing or gaming.
On the new Macbook Pro (new mid 2014 model) temps with general usage are at 60, which is ok I guess. However even at 20-50% load I've seen it hit 100. I never would allow my desktop CPU to hit anywhere even close to that, not sure how Apple is OK with this.
Supposedly the chip should be throttled according to thermal limits. The fan does kick in at 80-90c.
My use case: development work, running parallels VM, Photoshop, etc.
First of, is this normal?
And any tips for keeping the temps down (..maybe anything similar to CPU throttling in Windows Power Options)?
