Has your Macbook Pro shut off??

Hi everyone!

I'm a soon-to-be Macbook Pro owner and I just wanted to ask a simple question from all you guys that have made the switch....


Since you've had your MBP, how many times has it shut down from getting too hot?

cjjr72984 said:

hi everyone! :d

i'm a soon-to-be macbook pro owner and i just wanted to ask a simple question from all you guys that have made the switch....


Since you've had your mbp, how many times has it shut down from getting too hot?

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never

What is this, the 1990's again?

Do computers still shut off from getting too hot?

Never

andymac2210 said:

What is this, the 1990's again?

Do computers still shut off from getting too hot?

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Lol, well I bought my Gateway laptop in 2008 and that thing shuts off from heat all the time. Especially when I try to watch youtube vids.

I just wanted to make sure I don't have that problem anymore.

I have heard Macbook Pro's get pretty warm though........

Never, through many multi-hour gaming sessions - but if you plan on putting that piece of aluminum on your lap - it does get warm enough that you will want a lap stand.

Never

It does not get that hot.

I had heard many things about how hot they get. But, it's all completely false. Granted I do most of the "hard work" on the iMac... But even rendering videos and stuff on the MBP, it never even so much as feels slightly warm on the bottom. But even with the people that somehow seem to make them warm, I've never heard of them "shutting down" from it... That Windows worry is, out the window for you now

ClockworkWorld said:

But even with the people that somehow seem to make them warm, I've never heard of them "shutting down" from it... That Windows worry is, out the window for you now

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It's not a Windows thing by any means - it's hardware related. I had overheating issues with my old laptop and it would shut down regardless of whether I was using Windows or Linux.

Any hardware will shut down, as I mentioned, if it gets too hot. Just be responsible when using your laptop and keep a few things in mind:
- Don't use it on soft surfaces such as sheets, blanket or your lap.
- Try to keep it dust free. Dust can clog up the fans preventing them from effectively circulating air.

Probably shouldn't have worded it quite like that, was just trying to make a funny

It's not so much a Windows thing as a badly designed/badly assembled hardware thing.

CPUs and GPUs consume energy and radiate heat at a specified rate. A good engineering team will do the necessary thermal modeling and design in whatever heat sinks, heat pipes fans, and cases that will dissipate that heat given to the maximum environmental operating temperature of the machine.

Apple is pretty good about doing its homework. Some vendors aren't.

Occasionally, the factory assembles the unit wrong, or the chips that come from the supplier don't meet the supplier's own specs. Or the owner lets the machine get clogged with dust, or blocks the vents. That's when you get Macs that overheat.

Fortunately, that's rare.

I second the laptop lap-stand, mine has never shut off from getting too hot, but it does get slightly uncomfortably warm.

- Simon

Mine hasn't even gotten warm yet - but maybe I'm not taxing it enough thus far...

EightmanVT said:

Mine hasn't even gotten warm yet - but maybe I'm not taxing it enough thus far...

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I doubt your 2011 MacBook Pro - 2.8GHz, i7, 8 GB Ram, can be taxed all that much anyways lolol, that's a sweet machine!

- Simon

Buzzard2010 said:

I doubt your 2011 MacBook Pro - 2.8GHz, i7, 8 GB Ram, can be taxed all that much anyways lolol, that's a sweet machine!

- Simon

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Thanks! I'm loving it so far! Enjoying the learning curve as well...

EightmanVT said:

Thanks! I'm loving it so far! Enjoying the learning curve as well...

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I love anything new, including the learning curve, be it phone, computer, tv, console
Just a big geek at heart lolol

- Simon

the worst i have had is kernel panics after extensive 2 hour recording sessions or mixing. i did two video encodes today (almost maxxing 200% on the dual cpu) and it didnt do that, and it never has.

Buzzard2010 said:

I love anything new, including the learning curve, be it phone, computer, tv, console
Just a big geek at heart lolol

- Simon

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You must be a spitting image of me then, ha! I'm always dying for, and buying the latest and greatest because I'm addicted to it!

On topic here, I have the setup under my name over there <<< and I game on it all the time and I never have a single problem...never once has it even gotten truly "hot". It's gotten warm, yeah.



You won't go wrong with a macbook pro but don't sell yourself short. Buy what you believe you should get to begin with so you don't regret it later. I should have gotten the 8gigs of ram and I didn't and now I regret it.

ThePope43 said:

You won't go wrong with a macbook pro but don't sell yourself short. Buy what you believe you should get to begin with so you don't regret it later. I should have gotten the 8gigs of ram and I didn't and now I regret it.

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Well, it is actually a lot better that you didn't buy the 8gigs of RAM via Apple! It would be MUCH cheaper for you to do it now But of course get the processor you want to start with, that... can't really be changed later I bought my machines with the base amount of RAM, and upgraded it myself the day I got each of them. Didn't cost even half the price Apple wanted me to pay for maxed RAM. Barely over a 1/4 as much, in fact, and it's just as good as if Apple had built it that way!

Well I was dumb and didn't get the 2.8 and got the 2.66 instead, but in my first Mac I'm ok with that...


I'll remember that next time and for all my future Mac computers.