Thermal Map Reveals How Hot the Retina Display MacBook Pro Runs [Photos]

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Posted June 25, 2012 at 8:06pm by iClarified

Thermal Map photos of the new Retina Display MacBook Pro reveals how hot the notebook can get during various usage scenarios.

Japanese site IT Media performed several tests with a thermal camera. The first test measured how hot the notebook ran while in sleep mode. The temperature was measured at 30.3 degrees Celsius (the same as when it was shutdown) and the audio was measured at just 30 decibels (nearly inaudible).

Thermal Map Reveals How Hot the Retina Display MacBook Pro Runs [Photos]

The second test was performed after the MacBook Pro ran a 15 minute QuickTime movie. The temperature was measured at 35.1 degrees Celsius.

The final tests pushed the MacBook to its limits by running Cinebench and other CPU intensive applications. At its highest, the temperature reached 48.2 degrees Celsius and the audio measured at 46 decibels. This temperature may be too hot for some laps but would not commonly be reached in typical day to day use.

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Vanja - June 25, 2012 at 11:56pm

Most of these Retina MBPs won't see any CPU intensive apps running anyway. Most will just spend their lifetimes running a browser, iTunes and occasionally Office apps. Oh, and don't forget their owners saying "it is soooooo thin!!" and "Look at that gorgeous screen!". Meh.

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Love - June 26, 2012 at 4:19am

You have a point there, but that's only true to the NON "Pro" macbooks. Remember, this is a macbook "Pro", suited for intensive tasks and owners of this will be more likely working in the creative field doing things like ultra hi-res raw image processing, 3D rendering, video editing, special effects / CGI, loseless audio streaming for mixing, compiling large apps and etc. :)

Cousin it - June 25, 2012 at 8:42pm

Uhhh Celsius? Did you guys forget we are in AMERICA?!

Brian - June 25, 2012 at 9:09pm

Do you think its only americans that read this site? Most of the world uses the metric system. Also if you read the article, the imagery was conducted in Japan.

Nitro Junkie - June 26, 2012 at 8:55am

Why a twinkie? What about a hoho or a ding dong?

Tiago Fernandes - June 26, 2012 at 2:33pm

And im in Europe, so what is your problem cause honestly i dont understand your point of view...

matrixmaniac - June 26, 2012 at 8:47pm

Thanks God, WE are not!

RedBll - June 28, 2012 at 6:46am

it's called "converting". don't get used to things being spoon fed to you. do some work (although a simple google search "48.2 c to f" is not really considered work).

bd - June 28, 2012 at 2:55pm

In fairness I don't think it's exactly common practice for people to multiply F by 17.22 to get C, and googling it is surely the definition of being spoon fed, so you're just talking shit on all accounts