{"id":45,"date":"2008-05-14T11:55:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T11:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/installingcats.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2008-05-14T11:55:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T11:55:01","slug":"hot-macbook-pro-temperature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/2008\/05\/14\/hot-macbook-pro-temperature\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot MacBook Pro Temperature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To <a title=\"Smc Fan Control for MacBook\" href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/holtmann\/eidac\/software\/smcfancontrol2\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reduce the temperature of my MacBook Pro I use smcFanControl<\/a> by Hendrik Holtmann.\u00a0 Normally my MacBook Pro would run somewhere close the 55-60C mark without doing anything intensive, say a 10-15% average CPU utilization.\u00a0 I found this somewhat hot for my tastes, especially when using the built in keyboard where it would be uncomfortably hot to touch the speaker\/heat dissipation grilles on either site of the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>I generally run the two internal MacBook Pro fans at 2600rpm each to keep the temperature 50C or below, depending on ambient temperature.\u00a0 The cost is a little fan noise which is noticeable in a dead quiet room.\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve got any music or background noise, you won&#8217;t notice it.\u00a0 Either way, it&#8217;ll blend into the background quickly since it&#8217;s &#8220;white&#8221; noise anyways.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m unsure which version is the latest for smcFanControl so here&#8217;s <a title=\"smc Fan Control\" href=\"http:\/\/www.macupdate.com\/info.php\/id\/23049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">another link to smc Fan Control version 2.1.2<\/a> in case it&#8217;s more recent than the above link.<\/p>\n<p>This post was due to a comments discussion on <a href=\"http:\/\/installingcats.com\/2008\/05\/12\/turn-off-macbook-pro-display-when-using-dvi-to-video-adapter\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">how to turn off the macbook pro display when using an external display for Front Row<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To reduce the temperature of my MacBook Pro I use smcFanControl by Hendrik Holtmann.\u00a0 Normally my MacBook Pro would run somewhere close the 55-60C mark without doing anything intensive, say a 10-15% average CPU utilization.\u00a0 I found this somewhat hot for my tastes, especially when using the built in keyboard where it would be uncomfortably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,2],"tags":[110,17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/installingcats.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}