Macbook air overheating a lot! Why?
Have a 2012 macbook air and recently it has been overheating everyday!
is it old? too many apps? Anyone experience this?
MacBook Air, iOS 8.4
Have a 2012 macbook air and recently it has been overheating everyday!
is it old? too many apps? Anyone experience this?
MacBook Air, iOS 8.4
Pre-Mavericks
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time (>=70,) then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Mavericks and later
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the View menu. Click on the CPU tab in the toolbar. Click twice on the %CPU column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of %CPU, then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Unless you can provide actual temperatures, you do not know with certainty that it is over heating. Install a temperature/fan speed monitoring application.
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Macbook air overheating a lot! Why?