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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1529801">In addition to Nick's suggestions, tell us a little about what you have running on it (OS version and software that is usually running).If you could download something like <a href="http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html" target="_blank">iStat Pro</a> and set it so you can read the fan speeds and temperatures and report those back to us, that would probably help us judge if what you're hearing is normal or not. I have to say that it was probably unwise to pick an eight-plus year old Mac to be your introduction to the platform. Apart from the exterior appearance, it bears no resemblance at all to anything made this decade, and can't run any modern software. Unless you have some specific, older-software purpose you want to run on it, I can't recommend it as being anything like modern Macs (even if it was working perfectly). That's a machine for people &quot;trapped&quot; on older software only these days.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1529801"] In addition to Nick's suggestions, tell us a little about what you have running on it (OS version and software that is usually running). If you could download something like [URL="http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/status/istatpro.html"]iStat Pro[/URL] and set it so you can read the fan speeds and temperatures and report those back to us, that would probably help us judge if what you're hearing is normal or not. I have to say that it was probably unwise to pick an eight-plus year old Mac to be your introduction to the platform. Apart from the exterior appearance, it bears no resemblance at all to anything made this decade, and can't run any modern software. Unless you have some specific, older-software purpose you want to run on it, I can't recommend it as being anything like modern Macs (even if it was working perfectly). That's a machine for people "trapped" on older software only these days. [/QUOTE]

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