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Hi all, last month on 4th of December I bought a brand new macbook pro 14'' M3 Max and 64GB of RAM. It is the five time that the laptop is overheating event thought I'm not doing something extraordinary. I never thought I would hear the fan running on a new macbook pro with this configuration. Is this normal when the total CPU usage is under 25%? It is there a way to identify if this is a hardware problem?
MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 14.2
Capida wrote:
Hi all, last month on 4th of December I bought a brand new macbook pro 14'' M3 Max and 64GB of RAM. It is the five time that the laptop is overheating event thought I'm not doing something extraordinary. I never thought I would hear the fan running on a new macbook pro with this configuration. Is this normal when the total CPU usage is under 25%? It is there a way to identify if this is a hardware problem?
Keep your Mac notebook within acceptable operating temperatures
Keep your Mac laptop within acceptable operating temperatures - Apple Support
unplug all third party peripherals when testing
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus
all known to cause issues on the macOS
To trouble shoot further you can:
—A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies
Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
This test will tell you if third party interference; most* extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
your CPU load does not look overly stressed..in comparison:
Capida wrote:
Hi all, last month on 4th of December I bought a brand new macbook pro 14'' M3 Max and 64GB of RAM. It is the five time that the laptop is overheating event thought I'm not doing something extraordinary. I never thought I would hear the fan running on a new macbook pro with this configuration. Is this normal when the total CPU usage is under 25%? It is there a way to identify if this is a hardware problem?
Keep your Mac notebook within acceptable operating temperatures
Keep your Mac laptop within acceptable operating temperatures - Apple Support
unplug all third party peripherals when testing
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus
all known to cause issues on the macOS
To trouble shoot further you can:
—A SafeBoot Use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies
Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
This test will tell you if third party interference; most* extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
your CPU load does not look overly stressed..in comparison:
MacBook Pro M3 Max 64GB 1TB Overheating
