My Macbook's SSD Too Hot

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My Macbook's SSD Too Hot

Hi, can someone help me try to troubleshoot why my Macbook Air's CPU get's hot pretty fast just doing some menial tasks? I have a MacBook Air 13-inch, Early 2014, running OSX Yosemite 10.10.3.

Just surfing the net using safari, it get's up to 55 degrees Celsius. and it has never done this before.

Things I have tried: I have flash disabled. And when I look at the activity monitor, there doesn't appear to be anything hogging the CPU, unless I'm reading it wrong. But still, it runs that high whenever I do youtube searches. Is this normal?

Posted on May 25, 2015 5:04 AM

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May 25, 2015 7:20 AM in response to outlier420

This temperature of 55 C in your picture refers to your SSD, which is storage - your hard disk. This temperature is certainly warm, but is not too high. If in fact you do mean to talk about your CPU, that is also warm, but not too hot.

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May 25, 2015 7:34 AM in response to CT

Ah, yes, I meant SSD. I was wondering why it was quite warm all of a sudden, 55 degrees just for searching on YouTube seems a bit much or seems like something is off with the hardware, so was wondering if anyone else experienced similar.

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