What's the Average Range for Fan Speed in 11" MacBook Air?

Amie

Amie

Mac Convert for Life
I've noticed that my 11" MBA fan runs around 2000 most of the time (if I'm just surfing the 'Net and not doing any major tasks). I have iStat Nano and the readings show around 1999/2000 mostly. Sometimes when I'm playing YouTube videos the fan escalates up around 4500.

Can someone tell me what the average (non-dangerous) range is? Like what number should you start to worry at?

Thanks in advance! :)
 
Your average temp range will vary, depending on what you do, and will be affected by the ambient temp.
The temp goes up, or start a new, cpu-intensive process, the fan speed goes up.
Temp returns to normal, and fan returns to idle.
That's how it works....
I would worry about a fan speed of 0 - or, seeing the internal temp go up, without a corresponding fan increase.
I see nothing about your description which is unusual.

Are you actually having a problem?
 
The more you look at stats on your computer (like fan speed, CPU temperature, disk pageouts, etc), the more you will worry. I recommend stop looking at stats and just use the computer.

If it breaks, it breaks. Monitoring fan speed will not let you somehow predict failure or ward it off unless the computer is a lot older than it is now.
 
Okay, thanks. No, see, I'm not worried, I just thought there was like an "average range" for temp and fan speed, that's all. Kinda like a car where you know what your car's "average range" is for rmp and temp and the needle generally stays in that range. I tried to research it online but couldn't really find any specs for fan/temp range. I guess it's all different for every task. Ah well...thank you. :)
 
Hi your fan speed are high but thats because you have installed flash... Flash generates high cpu use and high cpu use generates heat.... witch starts the fans.....

as soon as you close your browser the temp will drop and the fan speed will doe the same....so asking for a average range should bee the average speeds when running flash
and when Im using flash on my air 11" the fan speed is like yours...
 
Thanks for the replies, guys! I always wondered why Apple does not include Flash in their software bundle. Of course everyone needs Flash to pretty much function on the Internet. Doesn't Apple know this?! The first thing Mac users do when they buy a new computer is (guess!) ... yep, download Flash. Why? Because it's necessary. You'd think Apple would save us the time and just include it in the software package.
 
Apple includes Flash on all their computers save for the MacBook Air computers. This is because the Airs are advertised as having excellent battery life, and if the first thing someone does is test this advertisement by watching battery-draining Flash videos, well, that just wouldn't be "truth in advertising."
 
@Amie - Your assumption about Flash in OS X software is completely incorrect. Until very recently, as EDCC said, Apple unfortunately has been including Flash with the OS X system, and even keeping it up-to-date when needed. Apple will (at last!) not have flash software included with the Lion install, from what I hear. You can always simply install that yourself, if you really think you need it. I hope you would reconsider that 'need'. Flash is probably the worst part of browsing the 'net.
 
. . . but then you have to avoid all of the sites that use Flash.

Sort of a lose-lose situation.

--J.D.
 
I go the dual way on my MacBook Air. Not installing Flash, but if a site requires it, I use Chrome, which has its own Flash plugin built-in. This way, visiting a site with Safari tells the server that I actually don't HAVE Flash, and sometimes offers a variant of the page in HTML/CSS. If the site really is only workable in Flash, I can copy the URL and go to Chrome.

On my desktop computer I use Click-to-Flash.
 
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