why is mac mac book pro getting so hot?
why is my mac getting so hot?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
The temperature usually is directly related to the load being placed on the system...what software are you running, multiple software? Things like heavy duty games place a load by fully taxing he cpu and loading up the gpu to produce the display imaging. Software that does very heavy graphics, things like ray tracing and rendering, put a full load on the cpu.
The cpu can run very hot, on the order of 100-110 deg, before thermal overload protection kicks in and runs bak the clock speed. The system will start running up the fan speed to remove the excess heat.
So, how hot is the MBPr? Warm to touch, hot to touch, uncomfortably hot to touch?