Why is my Macbook Pro 15" heating up so fast?

You have for the most part answered your own question. Video, high brightness and Google Chrome collectively will raise the internal temperatures of your MBP. The question then is if the temperatures are excessive. I suggest that you download istat menus and see what it comes up with.

http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

If the tempweratures are in the high 90°s c, then some action should be taken to cool the MBP.

Ciao.

Hi i have the same problem, but it has happened when i wacth neflix in chrome or mozilla, do you find any solution becasue my MBP 15 Retina Display is totally new?, besides when I run windows in boot can my laptop start heating so fast!!!

I've been having the same problem, except it happens when I have quite a few web pages open at once. I downloaded the link you suggested, and I was wondering what the average temperature should be? My laptop was heating up and the fan was going crazy about 10-15 mins ago but it has calmed down now and the temp is fluctuating around the 70-75 degrees C mark. And also, if one were to notice their laptop at 90 degrees C, what should one do?

I've had this laptop for about 2 years.

I've also noticed my Late 2013 15" macbook pro started to use the fan a bit lately where before it was completely silent.

It seems to do this randomly a few times but generally in these 2 situations.

1) You have WAYYYYY too many internet tabs open. Hard to isolate hardware or software problems too internet browsers though, they have a tendency to crash with large amounts of tabs expecially if flash player is involved.

2) Dual screen display with HDMI seems to really tax the Iris when you got the video playing on the other monitor.

What concerns me is that I've only had the Macbook Pro for ~2 weeks and it seems the fan usage has increased since when I first got it. Could be just a coincidence or that I'm really taxing the CPU more than when I first got it.

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"You have for the most part answered your own question. Video, high brightness and Google Chrome collectively will raise the internal temperatures of your MBP. The question then is if the temperatures are excessive. I suggest that you download istat menus and see what it comes up with."

All 3 of those features you listed that raise the temperature are just basic things EVERY user is going to do. Are you suggesting that the Macbook Pro is incapable of handling this, and there is a high probablity your computer is overheating even doing such simple tasks?

My Question:

Is it possible for the Macbook Pro to overheat and damage itself? I'm assuming it has some kind of feature to automatically shut down before damage is done? I'm not really trying to buy some 3rd party software to monitor my temperatures. If there is any danger here the software should be included or it should automatically shut down before it does any damage right?

There are two things I'm really disappointed about the macbook pros.

1) No 17" model.

2) The late 2013 15" macbook pro really doesn't come with better graphics card? I know the Iris is supposed to be pretty good for integrated graphics, but for this price they should really give you some bang for your buck with the graphics. I haven't tested the graphical performance much at all yet, but if playing a little video on netflix or hbo.go while using duel monitor can really begin to stress out the Iris that's a problem.

I haven't had a problem with the fan being on too much yet generally things are silent but this is a topic I would like to know more about.

tob_2008, greetings: All of the temperature values that you have mentioned are within acceptable levels of 'normal' MBP operation. Applications that stress the CPU/GPU will create heat. It is as simple as that. Now you may experience a runaway application which is an 'abnormal' situation an should be addressed. Often, but not always that can be solved by turning off the said application.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1473

When the MBP gets hot, you can open Activity Monitor to ALL APPLICATIONS and %CPU set to display values from high to low. The culprits then will be displayed.

Ciao.

Thank you OGELTHORPE! I did as you said, and it's saying that Safari web content and Flash Play (Safari internet plug-in) are causing the highest CPU%. My laptop is at 93 degrees C and I've only had this page, a website for citations, and dictionary.com on. I know that both websites have ads that could cause my laptop to heat up, but it shouldn't be to this degree. Sorry to be a pain, but what do you think my next step should be? A friend suggested that I get an air spray or something like that as dust could be in my laptop.

tob_2008 wrote:

A friend suggested that I get an air spray or something like that as dust could be in my laptop.

That is a good suggestion. Open the MBP up and and check inside it for dirt and debris.

What you should also try is close down the application that is using a large percentage of CPU resources and see what the impact is. Establish what is the acceptable temperature under moderate conditions. As I write this, my MBP is at 41° c with minimum applications open. My observations have been that temperature values in light usage conditions of 40°c - 50°c range are acceptable.

Ciao.