Macbook Pro Retina overheat

Lol are you serious? a mac that doesnt run hot under load? you are either extremely lucky or your mac is not working properly.

Yes... I could post some screen shots I think later today.

As I sit here right now with RealBasic, Chrome, Mail, and some other stuff running the CPU is flatlined showing almost zero activity. Temps with from iStat with fans at 2K = 47 degrees.

If you could post the readings when you are running some VM's that would be interesting.

Ok

First: rMBP running Mail, Chrome, JollyVNC to my MacPro

http://www.ws7m.net/filechute/rMBPIdle.png

Second: rMBP running same as above plus Win7-32 VM and Win7-64 VM. Both VMs were relatively idle as the compiler processes run too fast to capture a screen shot. When compiling the processor on the rMBP jumps to about 8-10% is all

http://www.ws7m.net/filechute/rMBP2Win7VMs.png

Third: rMBP running same as above adding a Windows 8 VM:

http://www.ws7m.net/filechute/rMBP3VMs.png

I have a 15 inch macbook pro retina that I purchased in early October - I find that it overheats when I run certain applications.

I monitor the temperature with smcFanControl.

At idle - light web browsing (safari or firefox) and MS Office - the temperature is usually between 45-50 degrees

When I have more programs open (itunes, watching movies in VLC) and am downloading heavily - it is usually up around 65 degrees which is still not too bad.

However - as soon as I start streaming video in flash player (especially within Chrome) or using skype I can see the temperature spike to around 90 degrees. I really feel like this is some sort of problem in the OS working with certain plugins. Has anyone else noticed the overheating isolated to situations like this?

I have this exact same issue. Mine was delivered in mid Decemer.

Retina MBP 2012 -

Same here... overheating (getting too hot to even touch) with the lid closed and computer on idle. Anyone out there with some advise? I have a 2 year warranty, but I want to be sure that it's not something I can fix before I send it off. Thanks in advance.

TWW: so far, the problem I reported with overheating has not happened again. I still don't know what caused it, but it sounds like you had the same thing. I'm still looking for an answer.

Just bought a new 2013 Macbook Pro Retina Display and had this issue. Was at a coffee shop put it to sleep put in its case and inside my bag 4 hours later it was scorching hot andthe battery was low. Worried that it is going to fry itslef.

Can apple do anything to fix this? I feel like a $2500 shouldn't have a problem like this. My old Macbook never had an issue with going to sleep. I checked if I had it set to look for mail or anything and it seemed like my setting were all correct.

Help!

Just bought my MBP-R 13'' last week, it lives on a well ventilated desk in my room and when it's not there it's in a well ventilated, air conditioned classroom.

This morning I went to power it up to take notes in one of my classes, it wouldn't turn on. Putting it away in my backpack I continued on my day. A short while later I feel an intense heat radiating through my backpack, I take out the laptop, it is too hot to touch, literally. Despite the proactive measures I take to keep this laptop in top condition it is now overheated, will not turn on, it is and still hot as I write this from an Apple Store laptop, hours later! The fan was working as hard as it could but it's not running anymore. Odd.

Unfortunately I have no idea why this situation happened. I use this computer for web browsing, documents, and occasionally iTunes / Spotify. No intensive tasks. Is this a software issue? A hardware issue? Currently at the Apple store, I'm hoping they will replace the laptop completely. The concern I have is that the heat will have caused long term thermal damage to the internal components of the computer.