Macbook Pro Retina Temperature

Just adding my observations on my machine to the pool;

I have a late 2013 build rMBP, 2.6 GHz i7, 16GB, 1TB and noticed it got hella hot when I first had it. So I installed Temperature Gauge 4.1 to help monitor the temp of my CPU. 99.9% of the time I'm using this machine to make music using Ableton Live 9 and a few random VSTs. Nothing overly CPU hungry. Might have Mail and Safari open in the background. Average operating temp is 151ºF. Very rarely does it exceed 170ºF. Until today. I was messing around with a new Ableton set and decided to upload all the pics off my iPhone. I didn't pay it any mind until a warning came up but my temp had exceeded 208ºF and the system was about to start shutting programs down. At the same time the pics were done with upload and the speed of the fans kicked up to 2990RPM and a few seconds later the temp started to fall.

I'm very pleased with the performance of this machine and if she turns into an Apple Pie I guess I'll have Applecare send me another one. Until then I plan on being more mindful of how many processes I have going o at any given time. \

My name is Andrei, I am a IT Enginier for 12 Years

Now if i pay 2000 USD for a laptop, i espect it not to reach 212.00ºF in Flash Online games and Java on a I7 CPU

I realy like the product, but the cooling is 0, i had a lot of laptops in the past but this one is the worst in cooling. If you reach 158.00ºF copying music and editing audio files, than it has a flaw in its making progress, somebody at Apple didn't do his job right.

As i observed it stays constant at 212.00ºF in 3D games.

Now theoreticaly a transistor is dameged after 257.00ºF,

But if the guys at Apple know that the cooling cannot handle big CPU like I7, then don't make MBP with 50Wat CPU, stay at the 25Wat I5, in mobile i7 has almost no speed increase over i5.

I can confirm that the temperature of ALL CPU cores and GPU stay at a constant 212.00ºF in 3D and cooler's at above 4700 RPM

Is my stats normal. I have macbook pro 13"inch mid 2014.

The temperature in my city in which I live is around 40-45 Celsius and I have the air conditioner running in my room at 28 degree Celsius. I use my 2014 Macbook Pro Retina 2.2 GHz core i7 and 16 GB Memory on a desk and the normal usage temperature range varies from 45 - 50 degree Celsius which seems normal. But when I run Ashes Cricket 2009 or NFS Rivals/Most Wanted on Windows 8.1 using Parallels Desktop, the temperature jumps to 100 degree Celsius within seconds. I monitor the temperatures on iStat Pro. The fans are mostly running at 2500-2900 rpm during gaming. I usually bump up the fan speed to 4000 rpm using Macs Fan Control and the temperature drops to 85-90 degree Celsius. I just don't know if its bad engineering or what as a constant 100 degrees is a lot for the electronic components used inside the MBPR. I haven't found any authentic safe temperature range at any Apple/Mac related site. I also tried using a laptop cooling pad but no significant temperature difference was observed. I also don't understand that why the fans stay at an RPM of under 3000 at such a high temperature.

To my understanding - i5 is fast until you get to editing video then i7 is faster.

i5 is faster for games.