MacBook 16-inch Fan Noise

" that Jony Ives quest to add more thinness means you have a loud noisy laptop when using it for "pro" applications. "

Well this thread is about the 16" and my fans are not noisy. I edit on Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for a living. I also had a 2018 MBP. While the fans were audible they certainly weren't noisy and if you honestly think thin design equates with high fan noise then you have very little experience with Macs. I've been using Macs exclusively for the past 25 years. This is when they were very thick and fans have always produced noise, and much louder than today's Macs.

"Well this thread is about the 16" and my fans are not noisy. "

I believe this thread is indeed about the 16'' however mostly when connected to external monitors. I don't have any problems when not connected to an external display.

DPJ are the fans not noisy for you when you connect to a monitor?

I have an iMac pro that doesnt have a screaming fan. it works great maxed out doing audio production and plugin development. Im really happy that none of your macs have annoying fans. I just wish mine didnt either. Thanks.

"We are testing two new 16-inch MacBook's before doing a rollout across our organization. Under low loads (25% cpu utilization), fan noise will get annoyingly loud. We're not doing any GPU related and more routine work such as: using web applications, debugging web pages, Microsoft Teams conferencing (audio/video) with a handful of people, Photos downloading from iCloud, Mac Mail downloading a new mailbox from Exchange.

We DID NOT notice this on our 2015 MacBooks and this might prevent us from continuing the 16-inch MacBook rollout in our organization.

Interested to hear others experiences.

Tim"

Please read what I quoted. It's the original post. There's nothing mentioned about connecting to an external monitor. Be respectful. Don't tell me what not to write here.

Again, guys, it sounds like the most rationale explanation (meaning not simply a software bug) is that the work the GPU has to do to support the external monitor is causing the GPU to heat up. Any heat measurements on your GPU? I use TG Pro.

I politely disagree with you. My 2010 MBP's fan was far quieter than my 2015 MBP fan, which I find so loud as to be intolerable. I used to not see it - I made fun of Steve Job's obsession with fanless computers. But starting with the "Macbook Air Pro" form factor, it was loud enough to be a show stopper.

Granted, I invite issues by always buying the absolute highest end, maxed out system, with the biggest GPU and fastest CPU. But the sound to me is on par with running a blow dryer a foot away from you.

I always wondered if the base model laptops worked much better.

You are right, but then he mentioned (and most of us here too), that is happening when connected to an external monitor.

I don’t think he meant to tell you that in a bad way, let’s try to keep this post civilized and on topic.

thanks.

I don't think people are being disrespectful, just trying to get to the bottom of the problem, and focus on what is causing the issues here. If you read the whole thread most people are having the heat problem when connected with a monitor and when it is not connected it is working as normal.

This is from Tim the original poster: "That said, it IS related to having monitors connected and the internal GPU within the MacBook, along with the CPU and the overall heat that both generate."

So you seem not to have a problem with your MacBook 16'', what I was asking is, are you using a monitor or not and have you tried with a monitor?

Have you checked the GPU Time in activity monitor? I am sure there is a problem with WindowServer I just checked it and its over 3000 hours GPU time and the unit has only been up for 6 hours, yesterday it was over 200,000 hours GPU time and had only been up for a day!!

"Actually the OP of the thread did not talk about external monitors at all"

That is not true, please read what he said in this thread in his updates, he says that it is related to using an external monitor multiple times. Please don't give people misinformation.

"Well this thread is about the 16" and my fans are not noisy. I edit on Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro for a living."

Please try with an external monitor and report back to us, it would be interesting to see if you experience issues also.

I had a base model MacBook Pro 16, only upgraded to 1TB storage and it had heat/fan issues. Apple gladly took it back from me, with an accompanying refund, after it failed a thermal test performed at the Apple store (it was outside of the 14 day return window and they didn’t have the same model in stock, due to storage upgrade). It was connected to an LG 4K monitor during the test. The lid on the computer was open.

I've read the beginning and tail-end of the thread and didn't see if Radeon Pro 5300M made a difference vs the orig post re 5500M and i9.

I have a 16", 2.6 GHz 6 core i7 with the 5300M. I run with 4k external monitor 90% of the time.

Zero fan run-up or overheating issues.

Mine is also 5300 i9 2.6 connected to 3 monitors (Full HD), with zero fan noise or overheating issues.

I think it has something to do with it.

Although Catalina drives me crazy, sometimes one monitor just goes off with no reason, I just unplug and replug it and it works again.

IMHO Catalina is just a buggy release...

The problem with the fried gpu gets compounded by the fact, that a repair requires replacing the whole logic board. This includes ssd, ram and cpu. In a full configuration this issue bricks about 7 TUSD of materials. This is still a no-go for me, I rather stick with the 2015 model.