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angusmatheson It does run quiet, it almost never turns on the fan. Running Safari, totally cool. Dragon dictation and Firefox - it gets up to 70C - but the fan increases to keep it in the mid 60s. Intel says that chip can tolerate 100C - which is crazy! I don't think I could touch the computer at that temp (or keep the drive cool enough.) but I too am super impressed with the MacBook Pro. I have an i7 HP tower with 16 RAM and SSD too - And the MacBook Pro laptop can do dragon dictation just as well!! That is astounding...I haven't found the touchbar very helpful for what I do.
Final Cut pro - ANY NLE, even quicktime is nice to search through content. Beats trying to split hairs with the pointer grabbing the slider!
And the CPU temperature is on die. Even the part of the heatsink that's touching the CPU is never close to that temperature. Difference between die junction temp and heat spreader (commonly called the delta) can be as high as fifty degrees Centigrade. Which means at 100C (TJ limit) which is hot (boiling point of distilled water at sea level!) the heatpipe could be 50C or slightly higher. Around 120-125F. About the temp most households keep their hot water. And yes if you run just the hot in the sink and put your hand in there, it's quite toasty. But the chips can handle it. That is why if a chip is cooled well it can be overclocked.
The chassis gets warm/hot because the cooling system is working efficiently. If the computer never got hot and there wasn't a fan blowing like a hair dryer putting out searing hot air, it would either be throttling down or burn up!
