One ambitious Mac user has started a new online project: a database of Intel Mac temperatures and statistics. The site contains a listing of vital temperature and machine info, and is searchable by any of those variables. Want to know how hot others’ MacBook Pros are running compared to yours? Just select the MacBook Pro, enter in your CPU speed and any other applicable variables, and click search. Once more data is obtained, some graphs and visual analysis of data will be posted to the site, but that can’t happen until you submit your information to the database
Holy guacamole! Some of them are reading 92 degrees celcius! I trust that isn't the outside skin temperature of the machines, just the cpu temp?
They probably meant fahrenheit. That would convert to almost 200ºF. No processor should run that hot. I don't even know if it's possible. I guess so.
Someone might suggest that they add the machine serial number and purchase date to this database. It would be interesting to see if Intel and Apple come up with a quiet way to make these hot little chips run a bit cooler.
And for the low-end MacBooks there may be a pattern that those with the most memory run a bit hotter--perhaps because the great RAM removes a bottleneck and lets the dual CPUs work harder.