I am borrowing this macbook air from my school for medical reasons, and it keeps overheating and crashing. Is there a way to fix it? I am the first person to use it EVER so it's not old or anything.
I am borrowing this macbook air from my school for medical reasons, and it keeps overheating and crashing. Is there a way to fix it? I am the first person to use it EVER so it's not old or anything.
I'm just using the internet, I have it either resting on air, or on a grate and it still does it. People have told me they have heating issues and I was just wondering if there was something wrong with it since it crashes so often. And about that download link, I'm not allowed to download anything on this computer since I don't technically own it :/And by internet I mean forums, tumblr, Facebook, youtube etc. No gaming at all.
Thank you.. for not helping at all. As I clearly said above I am BORROWING this from the school. It's not my choice.
I'm sorry, but that is the best answer we can give. The only thing you could possibly do to cool it down would be to buy a laptop cooler which usually costs around $30. There is literally nothing wrong with it, they are made like that.
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I'm sorry, but that is the best answer we can give. The only thing you could possibly do to cool it down would be to buy a laptop cooler which usually costs around $30. There is literally nothing wrong with it, they are made like that.
It depends on how much you want to spend I suppose. I think Cooler Master makes some thick ones with dual-fans that would probably work well, but I would rather spend that money on a better laptop to begin with.
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yeah as said above macbooks are notorious for bad cooling, the one my school gave me (free) idles at about 85-90 degrees and its brand new. Its pretty insane. They have bad cooling but it is, in most cases, JUST enough for it to run without overheating. Yours looks like it might have a small problem, your better off giving it in for repair.
What you could try and do is ask the school/whoever you got the laptop from for them to get the laptops serviced, explaining that they have a heating problem.
If there is an apple store nearby the school could probably get a bulk deal (especially since it's a school) and have them serviced/cleaned for fairly cheap. Note: Best Buy is not an apple store.
If there isn't though, there won't be anything they can do. :/
download this http://www.bresink.de/osx/HardwareMonitor.html and tell us your temps, macbooks have notoriously horrible cooling, so if your gaming on it that's the problem
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As I said above, it rests on air or a grate.
There isn't much you can do.
Especially if it's an older model. They had way too much thermal paste on the heatsinks:
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/apple/excess-thermal-paste-causing-high-temps-in-macbook-air-updated/1662
Thank you.. for not helping at all. As I clearly said above I am BORROWING this from the school. It's not my choice.
I'm sorry, but that is the best answer we can give. The only thing you could possibly do to cool it down would be to buy a laptop cooler which usually costs around $30. There is literally nothing wrong with it, they are made like that.
I have a laptop cooler, doesn't do too much.
It depends on how much you want to spend I suppose. I think Cooler Master makes some thick ones with dual-fans that would probably work well, but I would rather spend that money on a better laptop to begin with.
^ theres your problem
yeah as said above macbooks are notorious for bad cooling, the one my school gave me (free) idles at about 85-90 degrees and its brand new. Its pretty insane. They have bad cooling but it is, in most cases, JUST enough for it to run without overheating. Yours looks like it might have a small problem, your better off giving it in for repair.
If there is an apple store nearby the school could probably get a bulk deal (especially since it's a school) and have them serviced/cleaned for fairly cheap. Note: Best Buy is not an apple store.
If there isn't though, there won't be anything they can do. :/