Q: MacBook Retina 15" late-2013 Heat

I just bought the same computer (15" rMBP late 2013 2.3Ghz/16GB/512Gbssd/Gt750m) and I've noticed the same extreme heat generation from the i7. I dont know if this is a normal thing but it's gotten me a bit worried. I plan on using this computer for computer graphics & video related work, I need something that just works and is reliable; Anythoughts anyone?

p.s: My Idle temps are 37c-47c under heavy rendering load, the CPUs will slightly touch 99c. This is totally unacceptable.

-davidm

Hi I've bought the exact same rMPB as davidmthekidd and have issues with the heat generation.

When working without doing very intensive stuff (coding with my IDE, browsing with Chrome, etc.) my CPU temperature stabilizes at 70ºC.

And when doing some intensive CPU or I/O operation the CPUs often reaches 100ºC then the fans start working at full speed and the temperature returns to 70º once the intensive operation is finished.

I haven't seen any malfunction or performance degradation but it's not comfortable to always have a warm keyboard and I'm not even gaming or anything. I guess if I started gaming the fans would be running at max speed all the time and the noise is quite loud (not the experience you would expect for such a pricey machine).

Are these values inside the normal range of this computer or should I have it checked out by apple?

I just returned by rMBP, I got all my money back. Instead, I will wait for the next generation and HOPE for better thermals. There's nothing to be done with the haswell CPUs, they run much warmer than the Sandy/Ivys CPUs. So, so nothing to be fixed here.

-dm

Hello im wiling to buy the 15' with dedicated gpu and im a little afraid because of the issues, the computer just get hot when playing games or so?

While programming and browsing what are the average temperatues? I wanted to know if the macs being shipped now are cooler if it was an hardware issue, or if this was a bad batch of macbooks..

I don't want to spend 2600€ on a laptop that has overheating issues and will kill himself after some time...

btw when they got heat they are on a closed space or with space to breathe?

Thanks

I'm not a hard gamer, just play some Steam games like CS:GO or Euro Truck Simulator. My problem is not heat totally but the noise. Whenever I play games, although I have never seen the CPU heat over 55 celcius, the fans were spinning always at their maximum over 6000 rpm. So, this leads to a very noisy environment.

I've gone to the Apple Store and handled my Mac. After a week, I got it back like I gave it. They have done nothing and said to me that the Mac passed every cooling test.

I have just tried some flash games like Bridge Constructor Free. Even it's a 2D game, the fans still spin at their maximum rpm. OMG!

I thought maybe it's a flash issue but the Mac doesn't have any difficulties or heating or noise problems when I play HD movies on the web.

I don't know why but there has to be done something with this thing.

By the way, my system is late 2013 15" with the basic specs. (i7 2.0 GHz, 8gb ram, 256gb pci-e ssd, Intel Iris Pro gpu)

I have also the same overheating problem with rMBP 15 late 2013 2.3 GHz model. Just played a 2d game and the temperature got 95C. Totally unacceptable and dangerous for the hardware components inside the mac. I am going to contact customer support first thing tomorrow.

Can i ask here what was now the result of the Customer support?

Was it change the heat situations??

Thank you very much

So I've had this Late 2013 i7 15" MBP for a couple months now, but today is the first time I've done any video editing.

I have to export a ton of videos to h.264 using Adobe Premiere and I'm pretty shocked to see my iStat menu temp reading all CPU cores consistently 90-97 for the entire encoding time.

Can I really depend on this laptop long term if for stretches ranging from 10 min to 30 min the temp is just going to parked above 90.C???

My late 2013 suddenly became hot when charging. No problems previously. I reset the SMC (google it to find how it's done) and it cooled down within minutes. Phew - sorted!. Some posts refer to new machines and I have heard of this fix working on newer machines. Yeah you'd think it would be sorted on a new machine - but sometimes it's not or a glitch happens on setup. Good luck!