My fan auto turns off once it reaches approximately below 40 degrees celsius, I was wondering if this was normal because my friend has a 2014 macbook pro retina and his fans are always on.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.3)
Fans are intended to be used when a device gets too hot. It is normal for them to shutdown or run slowly when a machine is not running at full power. It helps to extend battery life on laptops.
Your friend should probably examine what is causing the machine to make so much heat, it's possible for poorly written apps to overload or tax a computer. You can't really compare two machines unless you are able to start them from the same installed data.
Bear in mind that the surrounding temperature & airflow can alter how much a computer cools, so you need to compare them under the same conditions too.
Fans are intended to be used when a device gets too hot. It is normal for them to shutdown or run slowly when a machine is not running at full power. It helps to extend battery life on laptops.
Your friend should probably examine what is causing the machine to make so much heat, it's possible for poorly written apps to overload or tax a computer. You can't really compare two machines unless you are able to start them from the same installed data.
Bear in mind that the surrounding temperature & airflow can alter how much a computer cools, so you need to compare them under the same conditions too.
Ok cool, we were both in the same room today and both of our computers were hovering around 36 degrees celsius (According to smcFanControl). My fan was completely shut off and his was still going at around 2000rpm so I was wondering why mine was not also doing the same thing.
Fan shuts off automatically
