InstallingAdobeOnMacbookProMac. Book Air Heat and Fan Noise Issues SOLVEDTheres been a number of complaints in forums about Mac. Book Air heat problems and fan noise or fan running constantly. What causes these heat issues Whats the fix Does it affect the i. This article addresses fan noise and heat issues with the current Mac. Book Air 2. 01. 1 2. July 2. 01. 1. Heres a video a Mac Crazy user sent in of watching video online with his Mac. Book Air i. 5 1. 3 inch. The fan is loudThanks to Rajulun for sharing this view with Mac Crazy you are a starMac. Explore the world of Mac. Check out the MacBook Pro, iMac Pro, MacBook, iMac, and more. Visit the Apple site to learn, buy, and get support. Book Air Fan Noise. First, lets start with a bit of background of why the Mac. Book Air get hot and why it has a fan. The Mac. Book Air has one fan inside it, at least in the late 2. The fans job is to keep the Mac. Book Airs chips from overheating by pushing hot air out the exhaust port. The exhaust port is behind the keyword, at the screen hinge. Install-Adobe-Flash-Player-Step-1.png' alt='Installing Adobe On Macbook Pro' title='Installing Adobe On Macbook Pro' />The Mac. Book Air fan runs constantly by design. The fan runs at or above a minimum speed while the Mac. Book Air is running. On my late 2. 01. Western Rope Fonts. Mac. Book Air 1. 1 inch, the minimum speed is 2. At this minimum fan speed, during use, the fan cant be heard by most people. If you put one ear to the keyboard, you can hear the fan. July 26th, 2013 Sensu Old World Art Brush for New World Touch Pads July 25th, 2013 Inject New Life in your Old Mac Pro with a Fire Breathing GPU. Some people, in a very quiet room, with very sensitive hearing, may be able to hear the fan at the minimum speed. When the Mac. Book Air is busy it generates more heat. The fan then runs faster to keep the Mac cool. This webpage contains the MacBook Pro Boot Camp Drivers for Windows software to run on your Mac computer. Originally published 3 April 2011, updated 30 April 2015 It seems like never a week goes by without me receiving a query as to whether a Solid State Drive SSD. Adobe has just put out a couple of very helpful resources if youre running into any issues downloading or installing CS5 products. If youve hit a snag. Ust%20Programm%20Apple/duh3q278y89erhf7823gf9h.jpg' alt='Installing Adobe On Macbook Pro' title='Installing Adobe On Macbook Pro' />If youre in the market for a 15inch premium Windows laptop that can go headtohead with a 15inch Apple MacBook Pro then youll be very interested in the ASUS. Y_1zmdGwmP8/hqdefault.jpg' alt='Installing Adobe On Macbook Pro' title='Installing Adobe On Macbook Pro' />At higher speeds, you can easily hear the fan. This is a normal cause of fan noise on the Mac. Book Air Mac. Book Air is busy, fans are keeping it cool. Fan noise is like sweating its a response to strenuous activity. Examples of activities that make the Mac. Book Air busier are running many apps,using web sites with animation Flash or video,playing games,playing or editing video, particularly HD video. The room temperature will affect how fast the fan will need to run to keep the Mac. Book Air cool. In a hotter room, the fan will need to run faster. The highest fan speed on my late 2. Mac. Book Air is 6. You can check your Mac. Book Airs fan speed with the free i. Stat Pro dashboard widget. Stat Pro will also measure the internal temperatures of your Mac. Book Air. If you have constant fan noise, and your Mac. Book Air is not doing heavier activities, your Macs System Management Controller SMC may be confused. You can fix this with a SMC reset. Mac. Book Air Too Hot. The hottest temperature on the bottom of the case Ive seen quoted in the press is 1. F 4. 1C Anand. Tech and in the wild is 1. F 4. 3C thanks for commenting Corbin. This benchmark was running Half Life 2 Episode 2, which works both the main processor and the graphics processor both of which generate heat. Both processors are on the same silicon chip in the new Mac. Book Air. If you have a higher Mac. Book Air 2. 01. 2 2. If your Mac. Book Air is getting too hot, there are some possible fixes below. Heat and Fan Noise Just the Mac. Book Air i. 7, or Mac. Book Air i. 5 As Well The fan noise and heat issues are affecting the i. Mac. Book Air as well. Complaints of the Mac. Software Arc Text Command Autocad 2017'>Software Arc Text Command Autocad 2017. Book Air heating up, overheating and fan noise are not restricted to the Intel Core i. Mac. Book Air. Ive had a reader send in a video of his Mac. Book Air i. 5 with a loud fan. Mac. Book Air Heat Issues and Fan Noise Causes. There are at least several possible causes for the Mac. Book Air high heat and noisy fan Software functions that consistently use CPU are being used, e. Photo. Apps or other software running in the background is consistently consuming CPU. Adobe Flash, the technology used to deliver some animated ads in web pages and most web video is consistently using CPU. This is a specific, common case of the cause above. Software runs at startup that is not compatible with Mac OS X Lion. The software keeps trying to run and keeps falling over causing load on the CPU. The Mac. Book Airs System Management Controller SMC, responsible for controlling the fans, has become confused. Cause 1 Software that Consistently Uses Processor. Software that is performing an activity that consistently uses can cause the Mac. Book Air to get very hot and the fans to run loudly. A few examples of heavy software are Video export, encoding or format conversion transcoding. For example, Handbrake for converting videos for display on i. Phone or Apple TV. Importing photos to i. Photo or performing recognition of faces in your photo library. Playing some HD video. How much processor video playback uses depends on many factors, including video resolution 7. Generally 7. 20p is fine, 1. Quicktime H. 2. 64 movie playing back in Quicktime, and other 1. Quicktime format, e. MKV or AVI will get the Mac. Book Air hot and fans will run. Playing web video. Web video uses Flash, and Flash video playback is less optimised than Quicktime. Ive noticed that occasionally a web videos use several times more CPU than another at the same resolution. I suspect that is because some web videos uses formats that Flash is optimised for probably H. Flash probably non H. Flash video FLV. I havent confirmed this. D rendering e. g. Cinebench. Video editing and effects e. Final Cut, Adobe Premiere, After Effects. Exporting a music track mixdown, from a multi track music project. Playing 3. D games e. Portal, Half Life. Running benchmarks. If you are doing sustained processor intensive work expect it to get warm or hot and for the fan to become audible or noisy. Using either the main processor CPU or graphics processor GPU generates heat. In these cases that Mac. Book Air is usually performing normally. Some of the heat is dispersed to the case, so the case feels hot. The  fan speeds up pull cool are in and push hot air out of the Mac. Book Air. Cause 2 Software in the Background Consistently Consuming CPUEvery application running in the background uses power and heats up the Mac. Book Air. If you use less battery, your Mac. Book Air gets less hot. If it gets less hot, it doesnt have to use the fan. And on the way, you might double your battery life. You can see how much power each app is drawing, use the free software coconut. Battery. To help cool down your laptop, quit background apps or pause them using the 3rd party software App Tamer. Note that its not just apps running in the background that consumes power. Other background services often called daemons can also consume power. Mostly these are pretty efficient, but for power users, its worth checking. See my article Mac. Book Air Battery Life for more info on reducing power usage and making your Mac cooler and quieter. Cause 3 Adobe Flash Consistently Using the Processor. Flash is software that can be installed as a plugin to most web browsers, such as Safari, Fire. Fox Opera. Googles Chrome browser includes Flash. Flash is mainly used to include animated and video ads in web pages, to deliver web video and provide games in webpages. Flash is not uncommon for charting. Its also often used for entires sites for big product launches, like Hollywood movies. Flash tends to use a lot of CPU. Most people who use Flash arent professional programmers, theyre usually creatives. One poorly written banner ad can swallow an entire core of your Mac. Book Airs processor. While the latest versions of Flash do some hardware acceleration for video playback, Flash still uses considerably more CPU to play video than native video players like Quicktime X.