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Brand new out of the box 15" Retina Macbook Pro. Fans at full blast?

Hey guys. Hopefully I can get some help here. I purchased a brand new 15" rMBP from Apple.com with 16GB of RAM and the 2.3ghz i7. I love the computer but on pretty regular intervals the fans engage to full blast. It literally sounds like a house fan turned on high and will do this for a couple minutes before ramping back down. I have had the computer less than 24 hours and has done this since opening it. I installed iStat Menus and haven't noticed the temp. get much higher than 117 degrees Farienheit. My older 2010 MBP never made any noise like this. Is this normal? I understand the GPU and Retina screen consume more resources but it seems a bit extreme. Should I just return it and order another or is this normal? Thanks!

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Jan 26, 2013 5:19 AM

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peppie55

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Feb 27, 2013 7:27 AM in response to ThatDudeButch

Sorry, but when I'm doing a blackmagic speedtest the SSD is only 46 Celcius, so this isn't hot, so that's not true, I think when they changed, the software must be updated! I think because of precautions the fans are goning up, while there is no need for it?

edit: i just tested again, even the fans kick in while the SSD is only 25 Celcius..... ?strange?

Oyinko2

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Feb 27, 2013 9:12 AM in response to Kirawang

Thanks for the post.

I think it's not related to the absolute temperature. I have 2 theory:

- the fans will kicks up if the temperature increase more than 3-5 degrees celcius in a short periode of time

- the fans will kicks up if the computer send two very differents temperatures informations one after the other

Kirawang

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Feb 28, 2013 5:40 AM in response to Oyinko2

I don't know....if this "fan kicks up thing" does exist, the it doesn't shows up in former batch rMBPs?(equipped with Samsung SSDs) And from what I know, replace Sandisk SSD with Samsung's CAN solve this "fan issue" It was both confusing and hard to understand. From my observation, it was a common issue now. So APPLE, PLEASE PAY SOME ATTENTION!!!!

Mar 27, 2013 5:06 PM in response to Malamuitten

hahaha yeah i feel sorry for you buddy

i just got a macbook pro and it got to cold

and the fans created condensation

and apple does not replace under warranty.

eventually youll have to replace something

May 23, 2014 11:00 AM in response to ThatDudeButch

had this problem several time s on a new MBP retina. First time tracked it to a corrupted file running in/ connected to icloud; next time activity showed a kernel problem (75-80% system use with nothing but Amonitor running) then a couple of random incidents.

This all seems to have been cured by SMC re-set, and just in case, a re-install (done by Apple after they looked at my system log record).

Laptop now seems perfectly happy- runs high load aplications quietly- (mind you I'm not gaming on this machine)

Apple's comment-

"Looking at the transcripts it is possible that the customer has fixed the issue with a SMC reset.

Steps to Reproduce: Verified that the kernel process was taking a large amount of processing power and that there was an unidentified process absorbing the processors,

Proposed Resolution: To remove the software part of the equation,

Perform an archive and install"

Brand new out of the box 15" Retina Macbook Pro. Fans at full blast?