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I just opened my macbook for the first time in a week and the fans started goin crazy. The system is so slow. I tjink that my macbook thinks that it is overheating and makes the system slow and makes the fans go really fast so that it would cool down. But the mac is not hot at all. I have no idea what to do. I do not know how to check if there is something wrong with my mac, can someone help out?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15
viiviovaskainen wrote:
I just opened my macbook for the first time in a week and the fans started goin crazy. The system is so slow. I tjink that my macbook thinks that it is overheating and makes the system slow and makes the fans go really fast so that it would cool down. But the mac is not hot at all. I have no idea what to do. I do not know how to check if there is something wrong with my mac, can someone help out?
Do you have "Automatically keep my Mac up to date" ... (?)
>System Preferences>Software
If you have not booted for a while, your Mac could be reaching back to Apple Server to update and this can ramp up processing for no apparent reason.
Is this an on going issue, you need to be more specific.
Besides your everyday application software updating—
Apple uses its Software Update service (which also drives system software updates that show in the App Store or via the softwareupdate command-line tool) as a mechanism for installing “background and critical” updates that are installed silently in the background with no notifications to the user.
macOS - Security - Apple https://www.apple.com/macos/security/
Apple Platform Security - Apple https://support.apple.com/guide/security/welcome/web
viiviovaskainen wrote:
Okay, so should I update the software? Because no, I dont have the automatic keeping up to date setting on. And to be honest I havent updated it in a while…
It never pays to get behind in the updates.
Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support
You can update if you choose to do so as it's not mandatory. If you haven't updated for a "long time" and are on macOS Mojave or below, and you're running 32-bit apps that you need, be warned that updating to Catalina or above will result in those 32-bit apps no longer functioning.
EDIT: It appears that you are already on Catalina (10.15 in your profile) so you can update to your heart's content as long as the newest OS will support your hardware.
Hey y’all! I tried the smc reset, didnt work. Then I tried to update to the latest big sur, also didnt work. It looked like it updated (took a few hours) but then it didnt and still said that I have catalina. I need more tips!
Try an SMC reset.
Okay, so should I update the software? Because no, I dont have the automatic keeping up to date setting on. And to be honest I havent updated it in a while…
I’m not very good with computers so I’m not sure how to do that :/
Yep, youre right. I’m just worried it wont update or get ”stuck” and never work again if I try to download the update
Thanks! I did it, but it didn’t work. :/ Any other tips?
Macbook pro thinks it is overheating but it is not hot
