Vratislav Holub Apple discussion forums are filled with concerns about the new 13″ MacBook Pro with the M2 chip, which encountered unprecedented overheating in a stress test. One user managed to overcome the incredible limit of 108 °C, which has never happened to Macs with an Intel processor in the past. Of course, computers have "defense mechanisms" to deal with overheating. So as soon as temperatures start to rise, the device partially limits its performance and tries to solve the whole situation in this way.
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Pavel Jelic Something like that didn't quite work in this case. Despite this, we have nothing to worry about. Jablíčkář, who got into the aforementioned situation and slowly measured record temperatures, acted with the intention of pushing the device literally to its limit, which he quite honestly succeeded in doing. The measured temperatures are rather worrying. As we mentioned above, not even Macs with Intel could get into such a bad situation.
Why we don't have to worry
It is no wonder that the information about the overheating 13″ MacBook Pro with the M2 chip began to spread literally at the speed of light. Apple promised greater performance from the new chip, and in general, better efficiency was expected. But there is one very important catch. As already mentioned, the laptop encountered overheating during an extremely demanding stress test, specifically when exporting 8K RAW footage, which only subsequently caused the overheating itself. Of course, this went hand in hand with the so-called thermal throttling or by limiting the performance of the chip due to higher temperatures. However, it must be mentioned that exporting 8K RAW video is an incredibly demanding process even for the best processors ever, and nothing but problems were to be expected.
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So why are the apple makers making such a fuss over this whole incident? In short, it's quite simple - in a way, it's just the mentioned temperatures reaching up to 108 °C. Problems were expected, but not this kind of heat. In real use, however, no apple picker will get into such situations. This is why it is rather irrelevant to claim that the 13″ MacBook Pro M2 has overheating problems.
What awaits the redesigned MacBook Air M2?
This whole situation also affects other news. Of course, we are talking about the redesigned MacBook Air, which hides the same Apple M2 chipset. Since this model is not yet on the market and we therefore have no real information, concerns began to spread among apple users about whether the new Air will not encounter a similar, if not worse, problem. Concerns are understandable in such a case. Apple bets on the economy of its chips, which is why the MacBook Air does not even offer active cooling in the form of a fan, which the aforementioned 13″ MacBook Pro does not lack.
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However, the new MacBook Air received a brand new body and design. At the same time, it could be said that Apple was slightly inspired by its 14″ and 16″ MacBook Pro (2021) and bet on what works with them. And he certainly wasn't just looking from the outside. For this reason, improvements in heat dissipation can also be expected. Although some Apple fans are worried about overheating with the new Air, it can be expected that nothing like that will happen. Again, this is also related to the already mentioned use. The MacBook Air is the so-called entry-level model in the world of Apple computers, which aims at basic operations. And it is with those (and a number of much more demanding ones) that the left rear can handle.
We discovered SEVERE thermal throttling with Apple's new M2 MacBook Pro, proving that it needs a BETTER cooling system with two fans instead of one.
We exported 8K Canon RAW and saw temps hit 108°C, more than we've ever seen on a Mac, even an Intel Mac.
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