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This site will help collect and show the temperatures of Apple Macintosh computers using the new processors by Intel. All new computers that haven't faced the trail of time will have problems and issues that can make users mad and furious. As with the new MacBook Pro machines where were, and still are, problems with heat dissipation. After scouting forums and help sites for information about what temperatures I can expect on a new MacBook, but that turned out to be harder and more scattered than I first imagined. That's the main motive behind this site and it didn't take too long to setup as I had the base code handy from another site. -

2016-05-15: The model database has been updated with the latest models up to may 2016, a few spam comments has been cleared and the site now runs exclusively on HTTPS/SSL! The site is going strong and new postings are coming in at a steady pace. If you can't find your model number in the list, please go to everymac.com and find the related sub-model.

Total entries: 840 Most popular machine:
MacBook 13-inch 2.0 GHz White
Popular CPU freq: 2.00 GHz
Popular memory size: 2.0 GB
Popular drive size: 80 GB
Mac OS X version: 10.4
Avg. ambient temp: 24.6
Avg. drive temp: 40.5
Whine audiable: 138
Whine not audiable: 363
Moo audiable: 78
Moo not audiable: 382

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Added Base model CPU Freq. Memory Drive / RPM Serial OS X Ambient Idle / (Fix) Load / (Fix) HDD / (Fix) Whine / Moo Posted by Comment # R
201. 2011-09-01 MacBook 13-inch 2.0 GHz Alu 2.00 GHz 4.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8916 10.6.8 24 °C 49 °C 85 °C 32 °C Unk / Unk honzikd None 0 [x]
202. 2011-06-29 MacBook 13-inch 2.0 GHz Alu 2.00 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 N/A 10.5 0 °C 46 °C 80 °C 34 °C No / No sea2011 None 0 [x]
203. 2010-08-23 MacBook 13-inch 2.0 GHz Alu 2.00 GHz 4.0 GB 160 / 5400 WQ844 10.5 24 °C 45 °C 74 °C 35 °C Unk / Unk sercasti None 0 [x]
204. 2006-06-02 MacBook 13-inch 2.0 GHz White 2.00 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 4H620 10.4.8 20 °C 63 °C 84 °C 39 °C Yes / No Pablo The note... 0 [x]
205. 2009-05-15 MacBook C2D 1.83GHz White 1.83 GHz 999.9 MB 160 / 5400 N/A 10.5.6 19 °C 59 °C 73 °C 32 °C Unk / Unk Cyris None 0 [x]
206. 2008-12-09 MacBook C2D 2.00GHz White 2.00 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 4H650 10.5.5 21 °C 62 °C 80 °C 39 °C No / No fahne my fan i... 0 [x]
207. 2007-09-26 MacBook C2D 2.00GHz White 2.00 GHz 1.0 GB 160 / 5400 N/A 10.4.10 25 °C 49 °C 79 °C 34 °C No / No Johnny Van... HD at fu... 0 [x]
208. 2006-12-02 MacBook C2D 2.0GHz Black 2.00 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 4H647 10.4.8 23 °C 48 °C 84 °C 32 °C No / No nick The fan ... 2 [x]
209. 2007-06-28 MacBook C2D 2.16GHz Black 2.16 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8722 10.4 25 °C 54 °C 84 °C 34 °C No / No petemwah None 0 [x]
210. 2010-01-23 MacBook C2D 2.16GHz Black 2.16 GHz 1.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8765 10.6.1 30 °C 53 °C 84 °C 42 °C Unk / Unk Abhishek C... I feel i... 0 [x]
211. 2010-04-09 MacBook C2D 2.16GHz Black 2.16 GHz 2.5 GB 160 / 5400 N/A 10.6.3 23 °C 60 °C 82 °C 36 °C Unk / Unk xxalif3xx Go 0 [x]
212. 2010-10-31 MacBook C2D 2.16GHz Black 2.16 GHz 3.0 GB 160 / 5400 N/A 10.6.4 24 °C 61 °C 80 °C 39 °C Unk / Unk Koole using 1 ... 0 [x]
213. 2007-07-05 MacBook C2D 2.16GHz Black 2.16 GHz 1.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8724 10.4.10 30 °C 55 °C 77 °C 35 °C Unk / Unk MT None 0 [x]
214. 2009-07-31 MacBook C2D 2.16GHz Black 2.16 GHz 1.0 GB 160 / 5400 N/A 10.5.7 20 °C 54 °C 77 °C 34 °C Unk / Unk mashalla None 0 [x]
215. 2008-02-03 MacBook C2D 2.16GHz White 2.20 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 N/A 10.5.1 25 °C 35 °C 84 °C 31 °C Unk / Unk My Mac None 0 [x]
216. 2008-07-08 MacBook C2D 2.4GHz White 2.40 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8811 10.5.4 23 °C 49 °C 82 °C 35 °C No / No handtralal... None 0 [x]
217. 2009-03-04 MacBook C2D 2.4GHz White 2.40 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 N/A 10.5.6 25 °C 40 °C 75 °C 45 °C Unk / Unk Freanir None 0 [x]
218. 2008-05-30 MacBook C2D 2.4GHz White 2.40 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 MB403 10.5.3 21 °C 47 °C 68 °C 35 °C No / No Bnet None 0 [x]
219. 2010-12-11 MacBook Pro 13-inch Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz 2.26 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8932 10.6.5 22 °C 55 °C 83 °C 88 °C Yes / No Wolf No alter... 0 [x]
220. 2011-11-19 MacBook Pro 13-inch Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz 2.26 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8930 10.7.2 25 °C 50 °C 80 °C 55 °C Unk / Unk Gilbert None 0 [x]
221. 2008-05-12 MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.0 GHz 2.40 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 N/A 10.5.2 19 °C 40 °C 74 °C 41 °C No / No stu3 None 0 [x]
222. 2007-02-03 MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.16 GHz 2.16 GHz 1.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8651 10.4.8 0 °C 57 °C 78 °C 36 °C No / No Howard None 0 [x]
223. 2007-07-28 MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.16 GHz 2.16 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8644 10.4.10 26 °C 53 °C 77 °C 40 °C Yes / No vt C2D but ... 0 [x]
224. 2010-08-05 MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.4 GHz 2.40 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 7200 W8739 10.6 21 °C 32 °C 96 °C 28 °C Unk / Unk Seantiburo... While ex... 0 [x]
225. 2008-01-01 MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.4 GHz 2.40 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 7200 N/A 10.5.1 20 °C 44 °C 86 °C 36 °C No / No Dragonforc... None 0 [x]
226. 2007-10-22 MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.4 GHz 2.40 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 N/A 10.4 18 °C 63 (48) °C 85 (59) °C 42 (30) °C No / No Kiwi None 0 [x]
227. 2008-04-29 MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.4 GHz 2.40 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8742 10.4.11 20 °C 60 °C 85 °C 40 °C No / No Mugge None 0 [x]
228. 2007-09-03 MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.4 GHz 2.40 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8731 10.4.10 21 °C 52 °C 82 °C 36 °C No / No Jowie Full sys... 0 [x]
229. 2007-07-27 MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.4 GHz 2.40 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8724 10.4.10 31 °C 54 °C 79 °C 44 °C No / No imgoka None 0 [x]
230. 2008-07-10 MacBook Pro 15.4-inch C2D 2.5GHz 2.60 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 3R807 10.5 20 °C 49 °C 86 °C 39 °C No / No brightstor... keyboard... 0 [x]
231. 2008-08-21 MacBook Pro 17-inch 2.33 GHz 2.33 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8702 10.5.4 30 °C 35 °C 50 °C 33 °C Unk / Unk Almk00 None 0 [x]
232. 2007-08-09 MacBook Pro 17-inch 2.4 GHz 2.40 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8725 10.5 25 °C 52 °C 86 °C 37 °C No / No runningdav... None 0 [x]
233. 2007-12-02 MacBook Pro 17-inch 2.4 GHz 2.40 GHz 2.0 GB 160 / 5400 W8747 10.5.1 25 °C 47 °C 75 °C 37 °C Unk / Unk afterlove None 0 [x]
234. 2010-03-21 MacBook Pro 15.4-inch 2.33 GHz 2.33 GHz 2.0 GB 150 / 0 N/A 10.4.11 26 °C 51 °C 87 °C 40 °C Yes / No Solitary None 0 [x]
235. 2021-02-09 MacBook Pro 13-inch Core i5 2.9 GHz 2.70 GHz 8.0 GB 128 / 0 C02SQ 10.12.6 22 °C 70 °C 99 °C 32 °C Unk / Unk squeeb None 0 [x]
236. 2006-05-27 Mac mini 1.66 GHz 1.66 GHz 2.0 GB 120 / 5400 G8615 10.4.6 27 °C 45 °C 77 °C 49 °C Unk / Unk RLD None 0 [x]
237. 2010-03-05 Mac mini C2D 2.0 GHz 2.00 GHz 4.0 GB 120 / 5400 N/A 10.5.8 19 °C 65 °C 81 °C 54 °C Unk / Unk honzas None 0 [x]
238. 2011-01-11 MacBook 13-inch 1.83 GHz White 1.83 GHz 2.0 GB 120 / 5400 N/A 10.5.8 18 °C 56 °C 126 °C 34 °C Unk / Unk Macbook None 0 [x]
239. 2007-02-14 MacBook 13-inch 2.0 GHz Black 2.00 GHz 999.9 MB 120 / 5400 4H645 10.4.8 17 °C 52 °C 87 °C 31 °C No / No iceblox CPU seem... 0 [x]
240. 2006-06-29 MacBook 13-inch 2.0 GHz Black 2.00 GHz 2.0 GB 120 / 5400 N/A 10.4.7 20 °C 65 °C 85 °C 38 °C No / No MagicRat None 0 [x]
241. 2006-06-03 MacBook 13-inch 2.0 GHz Black 2.00 GHz 2.0 GB 120 / 5400 4H621 10.4.6 20 °C 67 °C 81 °C 36 °C No / Yes Fredrik Has fan ... 0 [x]
242. 2008-02-20 MacBook 13-inch 2.0 GHz White 2.00 GHz 2.0 GB 120 / 5400 4H623 10.5.2 27 °C 60 °C 89 °C 36 °C Unk / Unk nakao None 0 [x]
243. 2006-05-26 MacBook 13-inch 2.0 GHz White 2.00 GHz 2.0 GB 120 / 5400 4H620 10.4.6 22 °C 66 °C 88 °C 35 °C No / Yes jclarkv None 0 [x]
244. 2006-06-05 MacBook 13-inch 2.0 GHz White 2.00 GHz 1.0 GB 120 / 5400 4H620 10.4.6 67 °C 24 °C 88 °C 42 °C Yes / Yes bb Sending ... 0 [x]
245. 2010-10-07 MacBook 13-inch 2.0 GHz White 2.00 GHz 2.0 GB 120 / 7200 W8915 10.5.8 25 °C 60 °C 85 °C 35 °C Unk / Unk gazzu None 0 [x]
246. 2019-12-29 MacBook 13-inch Core 2 Duo 2.26 GHz 2.26 GHz 6.0 GB 120 / 0 W8006 10.13.6 26 °C 49 °C 80 °C 34 °C No / No DanZDM None 0 [x]
247. 2007-07-24 MacBook C2D 2.0GHz Black 2.00 GHz 1.0 GB 120 / 5400 4H644 10.4.10 29 °C 60 °C 84 °C 51 °C Yes / No chunkysoup... loud fan... 1 [x]
248. 2007-05-26 MacBook C2D 2.0GHz Black 2.00 GHz 2.0 GB 120 / 5400 N/A 10.4.8 22 °C 54 °C 84 °C 32 °C Yes / No MrXYZ None 0 [x]
249. 2010-11-10 MacBook C2D 2.16GHz White 2.16 GHz 3.0 GB 120 / 5400 W8726 10.6.4 23 °C 48 (45) °C 92 (89) °C 44 (41) °C No / No honzikd None 0 [x]
250. 2010-07-16 MacBook C2D 2.16GHz White 2.16 GHz 1.0 GB 120 / 5400 W8762 10.6.3 27 °C 55 (46) °C 91 (87) °C 38 (35) °C No / No honzikd Iapplied... 0 [x]
Average temperatures with the current filterbar (null not included):  25 °C 51 / 48 °C 79 / 78 °C 40 / 40 °C
 Page 5 of 11 Ambient Idle / w/fix Load / w/fix Drive / w/fix Entries returned: 506  
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IMPORTANT: Before you fill out this form and submit your information to the database, please follow some simple guidelines to make make sure the measurements are as accurate as possible. We'll have more valuable data if every entry is measured and recorded using similar practices. How to do this is described in the link below. If you need help filling out the fields, click the questionmark for some quick guidance.
1. Profile details:
Your name/nick: ?
Your e-mail: (for edit) ?
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Verification code: ? Verification - Enter code:

2. Computer details:
Select base model: ? You find this under the "About this Mac" menu!

(this will auto fill some of the fields below)
Serial number: ? (only the 5 first chars needed)

If you have upgraded a system component, correct the value below:
CPU frequency: ? (only digits, i.e 1.83, 2.0, 2.16)
Memory: ? (only digits, i.e 512, 1, 2)
Drive brand/model: ? (copy from System Report)
Drive size: ? (GB, only digits)
Hard drive RPM: ? (for SSD type -1)
Mac OS X version: ? (only digits, i.e 10.4.6)
Boot ROM version: ?
SMC firmware version: ?

Whine issue: (MacBook Pros) ?
Moo issue: (MacBooks, pre-2010) ?

3. Temperatures:
I have read the policies: ? Yes
All temperatures measured in: ? °Celsius °Fahrenheit
Ambient / room temperature: ? (only digits)

Enter the values from an NORMAL unaltered machine. If you've already done thermal fixes, leave empty and skip to the next group.
Note: This is the CPU core temperatures, not case temperatures.
Idle temperature: ? (only digits)
Load (100%) temperature: ? (only digits)
Drive temperature: ? (only digits)
Screenshot of load graph:
(500KB / JPG / PNG allowed)
?

If you have FIXED the thermal cooling system yourself, enter the temperature values below. If not, leave empty.
Idle temperature after fix: ? (only digits)
Load temperature after fix: ? (only digits)
Drive temperature after fix: ? (only digits)
Screenshot of load graph: ?

4. Closing comments or other issues:
? Comments:
(purchase date and place (Apple store, retail, etc.), problems or issues, applied fixes, normal operation, normal temp, fan action, etc.)
* Fields marked with BOLD are required.