Defected mac
Hi guys,
i just bought a mac pro 10.8 2 days back. Is it normal for the mac to get luke warm within fifteen mins of usage and hot within an hour or is my mac defected?! Also my mac has a ram of 8gb. thought previously i was using a compaq with 2gb ram and now this mac doesnt feel as much faster. Like might just be a tad bit faster but no real upgrade i feel. Please help me out.
macs tend to get kinda hot.
Yeah, my Mac gets hot.
Its as fast as it can be I guess. Its the power that is the difference I recon.
Specs?
Macs do tend to get hot. It should however be quite snappy in terms of speed.
It’s 2.3 Ghz Intel Core i7
8gb ram 16000 Mhz DDR3
OS X 10.8.3
I don’t think it’s really as fast as 8gb ram. I don’t play any games thought i have live and traktor loaded up on this though even when both of them are not open its slow.
Also i mainly bought this mac to avoid cpu overloading. Is that not gona happen anymore? because i loaded up an old dummy project which quite small though the cpu load showed a load of 15%.So im worried this too is gona start overloading. Am i not gona face any cpu overloading with the mac or should i expect that?
Also remember that that Harddrive in there be slow.
If you want REAL speed…SSD is the way to go.
Have you run Onyx and done a clean etc?
Those specs should be pretty damn tight.
I have an i5 MBP 2011 and it gets pretty hot. It’s meant to do run like that.
not really meant to be. it’s just the consequence of squeezing top hardware into a tiny, all-aluminium frame
Hi whats SSD? And how do i get that?
What’s Onyx and clean…and how do i run that too? Thank you so much for the help. 
You said 2gb ram in the previous rig. Judging by that, the processor could have been an early core duo, or even a single core celeron.
So an i7 with 8gb ram should be quite a lot snappier.
Would it be a major PITA to reinstall cleanly osx?
The drive is going to make the biggest difference in “loading” time.
This is a must use app. Cleans your mac right up.
Just checking here, but did you buy it new or was it second hand ?
A mac pro can’t be configured with a 2.4ghz i7 now, so it’s probably an used early i7-equipped pro.
Unless OP meant macbook pro, that’s a different story.
There are no “Mac Pros” with i7 processors. The only Macs that meet the OP’s specs are the 2012 15" Retina+Non-Retina Macbook Pros
Oh i see. I wrongfully remembered earlier mac pros could be configured with i7s instead of xeons. My bad.
If he bought it new (OP said 3 days ago) then it must be the non-retina MBP, since the rMBP has been upgraded to a 2.4ghz default processor.
This however was something like a month or two ago, so he may have bought an used “older” retina one.
‘PITA’ ??? Sorry im not sure what u mean by that 
If you mean pity though i dont know now how do i completely re install osx…like i just got this laptop the way it is and am using it and ive already like installed everything etc. irrespective would you tell me how to reinstall it?
Also is there any way to know like if its actually that fast or am i just expecting way to much from the mac. Like a test to see how fast is my mac running. Thanks for the help. 
Hehe PITA= Pain In The A**
Did you buy the laptop completely new?
What do you mean by “fast”? Are things running slowly at the moment?
The thing that produced the most heat on my MBP was the hard drive - Spinning components = HEAT!
Swapping your HDD to an SSD will decrease the heat and give you a speedier system, all depends on how much storage you need as they are still expensive in comparison to regular HDD’s.
SSD’s also require less power to run which will help with cooling.
The CPU and/or GPU depending on your application will always be the producers of the most heat. Replacing the thermal paste between the processor and the heatsink can help reduce temps, especially with older machines.