Why is my Macbook Air fan so loud?

vojtech_zah Said:

"When I am running Chrome with one window, it is okay, but if I turn a few more windows or apps on, the fan starts to be very noisy.[...] Macbook Air 2020 - fan is very noisy even if running few apps[...]Does anyone have similar experience? Do you know how is it possible to avoid this fan noise?"

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Why Risk a Faulty Device?:

Request a Swapout:

You should contact Apple Support, and request a swapout. Send-In Service is all that there is at the moment. You have a one-year out-of-the-box limited-warranty. So, make use of it, as long as you have it.

So,...

1. You: would contact Apple Support;
2. Apple: would mail you a box;
3. You: would ship it out to apple;
4. Apple: will service the device; and
5. You: will Receive it Back.

Contacting Apple Support:

1. Contact Us - Choose Locations
2. USA: 1(800)MY-APPLE
3. Proceed from there as Necessary

The Activity Monitor app will readily identify resource-intensive processes. Read See how apps affect Mac performance, battery runtime, temperature, and fan activity.

The latest Air versions have terrible cooling. The system has 1 fan, but the CPU is not connected to it. So it heats up easily. Some programs get it to overheat easily. Really no idea why Apple decided this is the way to go.

They don't do it on the Pro this way, and my 2017 Air has normal cooling as well.

Moreover I haven't even use anything else then Chrome and Slack since now.

Google Chrome will monopolize any Mac's resources regardless of its age or configuration in its mission to continually harvest and upload your personal information by whatever means necessary. Activity Monitor will reveal its multiple "helpers" and constantly automatically updating services that run all the time, whether you are using it or not. If that activity causes your Mac to perform poorly Google doesn't care. Once you install Google, it's no longer your Mac. It's theirs.

Apple does not force users into infesting their Macs with junk. If you are required to use Google products buy a Chromebook.

As I wrote it is not sufficient to "switch off Chrome". Google is constantly running whether you are using it or not, doing the exact same things and in the exact same manner as a "computer virus" would do, if such a thing were to exist on Macs, which it doesn't.

They should take responsibility for that and fix it for free or something.

Fix it for free or something? Fix what exactly? The responsibility is yours and yours alone for having installed it. Accept that responsibility. Fix it yourself. Uninstall Google.

vojtech_zah wrote:

To fix the terrible system of cooling and fan, which causes overheating when using ANY app;)

The cooling system exists to prevent overheating. If you are unwilling to perform any diagnostics on your own, then Contact Support.

What happens when you use a browser other than Chrome?

Chrome is so bad on MacBook, i will stick with the Safari, its fast realible and its so much easy to use.

Install Macs Fan Control and take a look at temperatures and let me know.