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Please Post Macbook Pro Temperatures here.

All Macbook Pro owners, please post your macbook pro temperatures here. This would allow us owners to clearly identify what an "average" temperature is, and what would be considered over-excessive heating of our Macbook Pros.

Below are two useful applications (one is a widget) to find out the temperatures of your computers.

http://www.bresink.de/osx/TemperatureMonitorWE.html (a widget)

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19994 (a comprehensive application)

when posting your temperature, please do post some specs of your macbook pro.

This is greatly appreciated. thank you (:

for starters, my macbook pro is a 1.83 ghz intel duo core, 512 mb ram, 128mb graphics card. it supposedly comes from the batch produced on the day of 31st March, 2006. I think it is a revision D.

So far, doing normal tasks like web browsing, etc, my macbook pro has been at a temperature of 42 degrees celsius.

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on May 10, 2006 8:39 AM

45 replies

May 12, 2006 6:14 AM in response to Readon

jumps between 79 and 81 under full load. (no scorched flesh yet)

oh yeah--macbook pro 15" 2.16
cools back down to 63 when not running "yes > /dev/null"

Readon Author

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May 13, 2006 6:59 AM in response to Jason Pero

yep guys thanks for the help provided.
this is what happens when i was playing songs on itunes, editing a word file (under rosetta) and also on messegner, skype and iChat (messenger is on rosetta) and also mail:

cpu temp : 25 degrees
hard drive temp: 45 degrees (both in celsius)

yes i did the speedit.kext thing.

surprisingly, my processor is really cool. and being in singapore, the average temperatures during this month is around 30 degrees celsius, and i was not in an air-conditioned room. in fact, i was at my desk, where i did not bother to open the windows, turn on the fan or air conditioning.

May 13, 2006 7:23 AM in response to Readon

What frequency is the CPU running at when it's that cool? Mine is usually at 1500 MHz when idle, and goes down to 500 MHz after a few minutes without activity. When necessary, during processor intensive tasks, it will go up to 2000 MHz.

Willett

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May 13, 2006 9:17 AM in response to Tim Lorenzen

MBP 1.83 processor, 1 gb ram, and 80gb harddrive.

66 c and 4.9% cpu usage 1500 mhz.

This warm, but I simply think the aluminum case is causing the heat increase as it is helping cooling the inards of the beast. Nothing is perfect and heat is the result of increased performance. I can't belive that too cool is good either. It like running a racecare without the engine ever warming up!

elusko

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May 13, 2006 9:29 AM in response to Readon

Hi there. I have a steady temperature of 41 degrees celsius. I have been running iMovie and watched some DVD. Activity monitor was reporting 30% processor use. The temperature of the room is 20 degrees celsius. My computer gets to around 50 degrees only when charging otherwise the fans kick in. I have 1.83GHz with standart conf. only 1GB of RAM added.

May 13, 2006 9:57 AM in response to elusko

What app can I use to determine the processor speed?

Thanks,

dd

imsoper

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May 13, 2006 10:02 AM in response to Readon

I'm running a MBP coreduo 2Ghz with 2gigs of ram. I'm currently running dashboard with about 8 widgets, firefox, dreamweaver (rosetta), newsfire, text edit and temp monitor. My CPU temp is running between 70-76C.

MacBook Pro, 2.0 duo, 100GB 7200 RPM HD, 2 GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6) Adobe Web Bundle

May 17, 2006 12:01 AM in response to imsoper

MBP 2 GHZ 2 GB RAM 100GB 5200 Drive 256Video

when running 2 terminal windows and yes> /dev/null

i jump to highest at 89º and then steady 83º

idle as now, 60º average.

i thinki might need some work. Also running latest firmware as of 05/16/06.

serial W86072.... is mine elegible for a fixer upper from our friends at apple?
Also can most apple stores fix it on the spot?

thanks

May 17, 2006 1:33 AM in response to Eric Duvauchelle

Just finished reading through all the posts. For those out there that think their CPU is running cool at 25degC under load ... sorry I dont think so. This temperature monitoring can be upset by a number of things ..
1. you must have the speedit.kext file in you home file
2. Some laptops wont give the right readout if the firmware isnt upto date.
3. Apparently some coreduo's have a malfunction (see www.increw.com/)for details resulting in no readouts bove 30 degC

the best thing to do is loadup the speedit kext file from Increw .. get the cpu temperature working, and then monitor it with "Hardware monitor" (www.bresink.com/osx/HardwareMonitor.html) If you activate the history windows you can watch your temperatures rise and fall with the cpu load. You can also graph the cpu load as well. If the temperature doesnt do much then it probably isnt working right!

Powermac G4/466 (upgraded to dual 1.4GHz), Macbook pro Mac OS X (10.4.6)

May 17, 2006 1:37 AM in response to Chris___Sarah Richardson

Another thing .. My MBP 1.83GHz 1.5Gbram week13 is idling at about 43degC but when under full load peaks at 83degC and then drops slightly to 77 degC

May 17, 2006 10:23 AM in response to Chris___Sarah Richardson

same here - have one of week 12 :/

May 17, 2006 10:26 AM in response to Cyberchriss

how do you find out which week your laptop is?
and which ones are elegible for battery replacement and or repair for heat?

mine W8607 starting number...

May 17, 2006 10:29 AM in response to Readon

57° C on idle.. it jumps 10°C when it is set to use only one core..

vval

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May 17, 2006 10:51 AM in response to El_Coyote

CPU temp-62-65, HDD-40, all time working.
W8613, mbp 2,0, 1g

oli4

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May 20, 2006 9:26 AM in response to Jim Pryde

Hi,

I have the same problem. The only temperature that I can read is the smart status. Have you solved this problem yet?

Thanks

oli4

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