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Shiven01 Author

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MacBook Air 2020 Fan issue

Hello everyone! I bought a MacBook Air 2020 in July. I am a 14 year old and so mainly use it for online classes, YouTube etc.. However even if I only have one tab of YouTube/google meet open the fan kicks in. And when doing some multi tasking the fan get reasonably loud and I have to turn on noise cancellation on AirPods Pros to ignore the noise. its reasonably loud. I contacted apple support but they were of no use. I have tried everything like all those VRAM NRAM etc.

Thanks.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Oct 26, 2020 10:37 AM

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neuroanatomist

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Posted on Oct 26, 2020 10:48 AM

Videoconferencing and video streaming are processor-intensive activities, it's normal for them to result in your chips warming up and the fans speeding up to keep them cool.

See how apps affect Mac performance, battery runtime, temperature and fan activity – Apple Support

As a rough benchmark, on my work 2017 15" MacBook Pro, I get about 8 hours of battery life with email/Safari/PowerPoint, but I get only about 3 hours of battery life on continuous Zoom calls.

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