2012 Macbook Pro "Heat Issue"

Okay thanks for the info. I started doing screen shots of iStats every couple of hours for today while I am working away. I put small rubber feet on the bottom of the LT to see if that makes a difference, so far no. At the peak fans ran at 5700+ RPM and CPU at 178 degrees. Had a lot of apps open at that point. Still not sure that is normal though...

You heat people are paranoid. You will now you have a heating problem when your geting graphical glitches or the computer is shutting down or dropping cpu power. make sure your ducts are clean and dont worry about 130f. thats still pretty mild.

You are certainly entitled to your opinion as am I. I don't think having a laptop that heats up until it it too hot to touch, let alone put on your lap, is paranoid. Add on top the premium you pay for this machine, and the fact I've owned laptops for as long as they have been around and never had this experience, makes for a reasonable concern in my mind and many others.

You are completely wrong. Most all notebooks have vents on the bottom. Even Mac's have the rear vents facing downword.

Apple has never made a Laptop. They first made Portables and now Notebooks, hence the word/name MacBOOK.

Think whatever you like. Use your Notebook whatever way you like. Even as a Laptop.

And I don't take kindly to being call insane.

So you think that any "laptop" OR "notebook" that has vent holes on the bottom can't be used on the lap? What about the MBP which has channeled vent holes on the sides and through the hinge as well as through the keyboard... They can't be used on the lap because it's a "notebook" and not a "laptop" Nobody makes "laptops" anymore they are all called "notbooks" It's just a term the computer industry decided to use and stick to. I don't care if you don't take kindly to being called insane.. You are.

The vent holes through the hinge and under the keyboard allow the "notebook" to be used on the lap or other surface. So since "notebooks" have vent holes on the bottom you can't even put them on a table? How do you propose to use a notebook if you can't place it on any surface? Is there a magic table that you are supposed to use it on where there are plenty of holes in the table itself? I think not.

Ok so not to boast but i upgraded to OS X LION and the heat issue is gone! Anybody else who has upgraded has had this happen to them? Im surprised and amazed but ever since i upgraded HEAT issue is GONE GONE GONE... WITH THE WIND..

Macbook pro Retina - There is new update which solve this problem. ( I have also gray backroud after any restart, turning black my menu bar on top, and fan run up 6 000 rpm - never stop, batery was gone in 1 - hour) My fan is now 2000 rpm and is very quiet. 😉

I'm a 2012 Macbook Pro(i5) non-retina user, running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.1 and I have heat issues even on 10.8 and I don't think the update helped me.

I noticed that my Exhaust(on iStat Pro) reaches 2800+ rpm whenever I play an HTML5 game on a web browser (Chrome and Firefox) and both the left and right parts beside the trackpad as well as the space above the keyboard of my MBP is really hot. I'm only playing the game for only 20-30 minutes.

My Exhaust returns to normal (1993 - 2009 rpm) after I close the tab on Chrome where I'm playing that HTML5 game. Does that mean that the HTML5 game is not compatible or is having conflict with my machine?

2012 rMBP 2.6 GHz i7 8gig Ram

My rMBP runs cool, except under heavy load. If I play Diablo 3 I will see temps of 80-95 degrees celcius in the core temps and the fan speed is still only around 3100rpms. Normal fan speed is 2000rpms.

I called apple, and a tech had me reset my SMC and PRAM. No dice. She still gets stupid hot when playing diablo 3. I'm afraid of playing the game due to the high temps.

I had another fan utility installed before. If i remember correctly the first time I played diablo 3 the fans kicked in really high. Then i installed the fan utility. Didnt like it, and uninstalled it. The fans never have been the same. I'm wondering if system format would solve this issue...

i have been using Mac book pro for years and yes they ALL get very hot, doing anything that takes power like a game or movie etc.

the best thing i can say and which i do is use is Smart Fan control, it lets you turn the fans up to 6k rpm and you can get it from http://www.eidac.de, so for example if i am going to play a game IE warcraft, i put this up to 6k and it runs about 50c without them on 6k it hits 98c in about 5 mins 😟

hope that helps

Yes - have been using SMC fan control myself since about a week after getting the rmbp. If I use a utility like Forklift, or use Tuneup with Itunes I get very quick spikes in temp that will take core temps to 95c +. Without SMC the fans will start to respond and will climb to about 4k, but core temps stay hot - so hot that the aluminum above the function keys is almost too hot to touch. If you run SMC you can keep the temps down.

I did have the laptop in to the Genius bar as you'll see in an earlier post. They tested the hardware with their own test and said everything was working. They did not do a load test. I have not sought a replacement as I don't know what normal is. Should we spike to 80c and 90c whenever we put a load on? Should the fan wait a good while before cranking up? Should this thing get so hot?

I've got AppleCare and just figure if it burns up, make sure it's backed up.

I love the capablilities of this machine and got it maxed out at every level to use the heck out of it. Do video and photos and lots of file movement - those and iTunes are the things that really cause the heat.

Curious what others know about "normal."

On MacBook Pro 2009 you to have powermizer installed because the drivers dont install any type of power management and you to have to go to regedit you have to change some numbers in the powermizer settings from 2233 to 3333 because some how the settings are not always remembered and you have to reboot it. I have a 2010 model and it has a similiar issue, I came up with a theory why other than just the power management does a Mac run hot on Windows. On Mac OS X you can use the graphics and it turns off one card when not in use, in part that reduces heat. Now in Windows using monitoring software I have found that even if the second video card doesnt read in Windows it is still active and that causes more heat than it should. I wish Apple would open up there driver manangement to Windows users to enable uses to use which graphics card they want to use. I just installed the update to Mountian Lion, it part it fixes some issues but the fans now go up loud just to keep the system running cool. If this was Apples fix it ***** because you basically wearing down ur fans. They should have came up with a better permanent solution.

I have a late 2011 MBP 15" with the 2.2 GHz i7 processor with 4 GB of RAM running 10.7.5. Recently, after backing up a huge amount of movies to a portable HD and then deleting many of the huge movie files, as well as watching numerous movies -some simultaneously- I started to notice that my fans were running at high speeds and the CPU temp was running at close to100c at times and between 70c and 80c with no activity. The GPU and GPU diode were running hot as well. Both fans were running between 4000~5800 rpms depending on the heat level of the CPU.

I ran Activity Monitor and noticed that the Process Name "mplayer" (with the Parent Process "launchd") appeared 3 times and each was using between 99 ~ 102% of the CPU.

After googling this problem I came across a simple solution that had worked for another CPU hog -mdworker- with the same Parent Process:

Restart your MBP in Safe Mode and then restart again in normal mode. That's it...

The Process Name mplayer no longer appears in the Activity Monitor and my CPU is now running at 39c~51c and the GPU is running much cooler. The fans are running at 1900 ~ 2100rpms even when running Firefox, streaming audio in iTunes, reading documents in Preview, and watching a HD movie using Quicktime.

As an aside, the Recovered files folder that appeared in the trash had 3 copies of a MozUpdater folder containing updater.app and updater.ini files which probably doesn't have anything to do with the problem (but I find it interesting that there were 3 copies).

Again, that's:

Restart your MBP in Safe Mode and then restart again in normal mode. Done and done.

Are you using Lion? if so, you need to disable File Vault. This is a quote from a CNET article on this subject:

"In OS X Lion Apple implemented a new full-disk encryption technology called FileVault (or more appropriately "FileVault 2"), which first preboots the system to a log-in screen that requires you supply your password to unlock the drive before the system can boot. This configuration prevents the system from accepting a keyboard-based boot command like the Shift key and passing it to the operating system.

Apple has acknowledged this limitation with FileVault, and affirms that the only option for booting to Safe Mode if you have FileVault enabled in Lion is to first disable it in the Security (& Privacy) System Preferences. This may take a little while to do, but should not affect your data at all.

Do keep in mind that while this is the case for people using FileVault 2 in Lion, it is not the case for the first-generation FileVault technology in earlier versions of OS X."

You may have to first unlock this preference pane in order to turn it off.

Hope this helps!

I am still experiencing "Cool Runnin'" since the safe boot / reboot.

Apple employees do read these posts right? Why are you guys so afraid to let graphics switching be available on Windows? Why do you guys cripple Windows and say that it isnt Apple's fault for not delivering optimized drivers to get the same experience you do on Mac OS? For all the money we put out we should have the right to use all the available hardware on any os.