Macbook air early 2014 - Slow performance, Heats to 97 degrees, Fan is too loud
Hello folks,
I have a Macbook Air early 2014 (8GB RAM, )
I have not been using it much so it was turned off for almost a year when I decided to re-use it. But the original OS X Mavericks was too slow and the fan was making noise so I decided to factory reset it and get rid of all the files which I did not need.
However, the performance did not improve. So I updated the OS to latest Catalina, but no luck.
Fan starts making loud noise within seconds of turning on the maccbook.
Performance is really slow. (tried Firefox and Safari browser)
iStat shows the system heats up upto 97 degrees, just by browsing youtube.
SSD temperature was recorded to be 113 degrees
I am thinking of cleaning and applying new thermal paste to the heat sink and see if the performance increases.
Anybody else have had the same issue and solved ?
Thanks