Keep You’re Mac Frosty 🥶
Macs can get really hot, here’s a two-pronged solution that keeps mine at a frosty 35–45 degress celcius — even with excessive multi-tasking and Chrome.
Macs can get really hot, so hot that someone tried to fry an egg on one 🍳, sometimes it even gets hot for seemingly no reason (looking at you Intel). Here’s a trendline for “why does mac get so hot” Google searches. The problem started sometime in 2010 and has persisted until now.
There’s many possible causes for this issue:
They tell you don’t have too many tabs open, don’t do too much multitasking, don’t work in the sun, etc. etc. etc. But hey, I bought my mac to do exactly those things.
Here’s a great fix:
- Download Turbo Boost Switcher (only for intel laptops). This will manually stop your laptop from using excessive power for tasks that don’t need it. It’s also great for quickly getting a look at your macs temperature.
Here are my settings:
2. Manually control your fans to kick in earlier. Even with turbo boost disabled, sometimes during charging, I felt like the fans should kick in a bit earlier, especially since they’re not actually loud until they hit close to max fan speed. I never understood why I can’t just have them slightly higher to keep my mac nice and frosty without hearing the fans at max speed, well, it turns out I can do exactly that.
Here are my settings:
Hope that helps keep your mac 🥶
