So I have three of these Laptops (all with i7’s) and when El Capitan first came out I saw 107 degrees Celsius on all of them. The older thicker one was becoming a bacon fryer and it did get slightly better with a teardown and dust blow out session, but it was still sitting at 100 degrees C at Parallels startup or firing video up.
10.11.2 which I loaded on all of them yesterday, caused Idle temps to drop from 98 to 78 C and when running my Chess software Engine (Stockfish) or watching video it spikes to 91/92 degrees C with both apps.
This is much better than it was before but I note that something in the OS is causing silly and pointless CPU cycles at startup and when I load Parallels and my VM starts the temp gets as ridiculous as running a video in OS X.
Given that its all getting better with each massive update and this last fix was a whopping 1.88 GB, how about some relevant info about the temperature problem?
I also run several other PC platforms running Windows also armed with i7 CPU’s and a big AMD 8 Core FX9590 on my software development platform as it has 8 cores and is a real code building burro box. I solved temps on that with Watercooling to get a steady 38 degrees C out of that when the processor is turning a orange-red complexion, but the i7’s in all my other Laptop profiles are not having this heating problem running Windows 10 Pro, so I have to put it down to the Macbook Pro and the OS in particular.
Already the updates with El Capitan have been legendary in terms of size, its almost as if the ENTIRE OS was written again from scratch……..
What gives, DUDES????