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I'm concerned how hot my mac mini seems to be getting, am I right to be concerned? How can they be kept cool?
I think it would be helpful if you told us which Mac mini you have - date/age, the current Operating System (OS) it is running and the operative conditions that cause the Mini to become hot
Heat is the enemy of electronics and magnetic memory storage devices. So, it's best to keep your computer cool.I'm concerned how hot my mac mini seems to be getting, am I right to be concerned? How can they be kept cool?
I placed a USB external fan some 15 cm (6" in old currency) from the front edge, ... the Mini cools much more quickly than when left to its own devices.
I wonder if newer Minis run hotter.I have a 2018 Mini which gets warm>hot when high-demand gaming videos are in operation. Worst in summer months of course.
... I think the internal Mini fan is being overworked. Hence the external fan.
It may be that your model is just simply under-engineered for cooling.
I like that temp display. Is it in some newer OS version, or an app, or ...?Here's my Mini items right now, with my room temp around 75 F.
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I have two displays, with one streaming Disney+ on Safari, and the second using Safari (Mac-Forums), and other apps.
That is an app called iStat Menus.I like that temp display. Is it in some newer OS version, or an app, or ...?
I second that.I had been noticing that several Mac models (especially their laptops) were running really hot, and I wondered what that was all about. So I asked a friend who works for Apple.
He said that Apple was very sensitive to users' complaints that their computers' internal fans were a distraction or annoying. So Apple made a conscious decision to set the point at which the fans came on in certain models rather high, and not at all aggressively (i.e. at low speeds).
I second that.
Most third party Mac fan controllers if they are anything like Macs Fan Control.app have a manual maximum speed setting you could use and set and see if each fan runs at the much faster speed which would tell you it is running properly or not.How can I determine - other than noise - if the Mini's internal fan is operating;
I don't think that is normal at alljust watching YouTube videos;Back to this heating topic - after running a few YouTube videos on a warm evening, my 2018 Mac Mini was very hot, more than I can recall it ever being before. It was too hot to leave one's hand on the top surface for more than a few seconds.
I believe the third party commercial software TechTool Pro.app still has a separate Fan Test built in.