Hello all,
I am thinking of selling my Macbook Pro and getting a T430, but I am a little concerned with the fan issue being reported here in the forums. Has the problem been fixed in the newer models? Thanks in advance for your reply.
Oh god, I so want to buy this laptop, but I don't want to buy a faulty one. :smileysad:
If you ask different people you will probably get different answers, but mine T430 is quiet but not silent. After downloading the free software tpfanControl, then it is literally silent.
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Why you selling your macbook pro?
When not using an external display and on integrated only mine is also quite silent (only while using TPfancontrol) That changes when discrete is activated. But still the first level for the fan is not okay at all !
Im using a mSATA SSD and HDD only for backup.
How are and for what are you going to use it for ?
My Mac is 3 years old, and is getting slow. I am a grad student in computational biology, so use it for programming mostly. I am still thinking of buying one and see how bad it is, I can always return it if I don't like it, right?
tpfancontrol just delay when the fan turns on, once the fan comes on still make that horrible high pitch noise.
I'm in the same situation, a year ago I purchased a T420 and I was very pleased as the notebook was very quietly most of the time. My notebook was stolen a week ago (:smileysad:) and I'm looking for a replacement. As I understand not everybody is suffering this problem of whining fan, have any idea if this problem could be associated to only some particular models??. For example, this problem affects both the models with integrated & dedicated graphics (as far as I understand the dedicated GPU can generate lots of extra heat inside the machine that needs to be dissipated)??
Best Regards
Luis
