Comments on: Fix MacBook Air Streaming Video and Overheating Problems

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:30:13 +0000

Thanks for your post!!!
I bought the program and set up your voltage!!

This program DOESN’T WORK AT ALL!!!
Macbook Air (1st generation is really a wasting of money). never more mac in my life!!!!

By: Najati

Najati — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 12:52:03 +0000

Thanks Staticred.. it worked for me. the videos and games are not choppy anymore but it did not solve the heating problem.

By: jason

jason — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 05:56:50 +0000

I wouldn’t go India bashing that fast – I’ve got quite a few friends from India who are extremely intelligible.

By: Alpaca

Alpaca — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 02:29:09 +0000

Well since THEPRUTSEE replied after a year, I might as well too (since I stumbled upon this after searching for “Macbook overheats”. I agree that a lot people watch streaming video (Youtube, Netflix, ITunes TV/movies) for more than 15 minutes at the time and @GAZOOBEE is being pretty dismissive and snobby in his reply… very similar to Apple’s “you’re holding the phone wrong” response.

Now I want to make it clear that I the Macbook Air is a great device for what it was designed for and I think overall the iPhone 4 is a nice phone (I don’t actually own one – I actually have a Sprint Evo 4G which has it’s own issues, but I can appreciate good design). They have issues and some people can live with the issues, and some people cannot. I just think that GAZOBEE is condescending in his dismissal for what appears to me to be a valid issue to some people.

By: ThePrutser

ThePrutser — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 21:00:18 +0000

Yeah, I know it has been a year….

anyhow, Gazoobee, still seems to be reluctant to admit that this is a huge issue. A small number of people??? Why is the internet full of posts about this problem? I guess you he works for Apple or something.

Anyway I am having the same problem with my MBA. Only watching streaming video heats up my MBA like crazy, and the video becomes like a slide show. This should not be a problem for a nifty and very costly laptop.

I have done some overclocking on PC’s, so I think I’ll give this a try too. At first I thought I was reading an advertorial… but it seems pretty legit. 10$ wouldn’t hurt that much

By: Bronza Coerta

Bronza Coerta — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:01:57 +0000

Thanks for submitting this, Jenny.

I "sometimes" have the same problem on my macbook air - particularly, EVERY videochat with skype gets impossible after 3-4 minutes, as the heat is so much (CPU at 73º) that 86% of the CPU is used by the system just to prevent further heating. Obviously audio and video via skype become crappy.

The reason some people don't have troubles with it, besides running less CPU-consuming apps is, simply... ambient temperature. I never have problems in winter in Europe, when my room temperature is about 18-20 ºC. I start having problems above 25-28 ºC room temperature, especially if I am using the macbook on a non-conductive desk like, for example, wood, or on my bed. I moved twice to Singapore for some months, and it started having this problem from day 1, guess what, it's 33 ºC and 85-90% humidity here almost all the time. I even had it serviced but everything looked fine... so I'll let you know what happens with this app

Cheers

By: bmialone

bmialone — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 20:36:05 +0000

I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro, spent almost $3000 on it in total, and I've had Constant problems with streaming, even stupid little YouTube videos! In fact, I'm on this site because I couldn't watch a video today!

BTW, I think GAZOOBEE's response is uncalled for and rude even if many of us didn't have the problem.

By: GS

GS — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 15:20:40 +0000

The AIR is a total POS...

Two broken hinges, stalled video, airport networks that fail to be recognize existing networks, recognized networks that fail to "get online", and sound issues related to the bad hinges...

Quality has nose dived since they started making Intel machines.

My next machine will be a PC netbook, bc really, the operating system is only good thanks to its UNIX core, not all the eye candy shit Apple that slows things up and appeals to the "unsophisticated" user...

By: Watto

Watto — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:36:34 +0000

Hi all, I for one am grateful for this post. I bought a 1st gen MBA in Aug 2008 and have had no end of problems exactly as described. I had to use Firefox to have any hope of watching a video online without the fans and processors completely maxing out. Things like basic online games caused it to lockup completely. I had also spoken to 3rd line because the machine was getting sooo hot (whilst on a flat surface) that I couldn't even touch it. I've been in tech support for nearly 20 and can't believe how poor this machine performs - and it cost me 3,500USD so I will give any 10 buck app a go before binning it.

Thanks all for the info, very helpful...

Paul

By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:19:59 +0000

Hello Guys,
If you have an iBook with the video problem we can help you fix that very cheap! I put up a video on youtube addressing this Mac iBook video problem.

I hope you enjoy it.
-Pete