I'm very curious how the new Macbook compensates for overheating when there's no fan. Anybody know?
New Macbook overheats in Hangouts and Skype, microphone input garbled
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Re: New Macbook overheats in Hangouts and Skype, microphone input garbled
#22Sounds just like the 2011 i7 MBP I had or "the cockburner" as it was officially named. Might be the CPU throttling due to heat. There is no active cooling system on the new MacBook by the looks so I reckon it's thermally managing itself by doing less causing other problems.
Beware, "the cockburner" can make you sterile.
Re: New Macbook overheats in Hangouts and Skype, microphone input garbled
#23hangouts is shit, stop using it .. simple google slaves
You might have a point about Google Hangouts not being a technological stroke of genius, it obviously has its flaws but I'm not sure how that addresses the contents of the post.
If all the computers were severely overheating and crashing when using Skype, then sure, by all means, get the pitchforks. But the thing is that my 4-year-old Macbook Pro can handle Hangouts and Skype just fine. The problem is really with newer Apple computers. Skype and Hangouts are extremely common and popular programs, so I find it astounding that Apple released a new lines of laptop computers without making certain those apps work A-OK (if the incidents that people report are actually widespread and more than anecdotal evidence).
Re: New Macbook overheats in Hangouts and Skype, microphone input garbled
#24Sounds just like the 2011 i7 MBP I had or "the cockburner" as it was officially named. Might be the CPU throttling due to heat. There is no active cooling system on the new MacBook by the looks so I reckon it's thermally managing itself by doing less causing other problems.
Beware, "the cockburner" can make you sterile.
Accidental downvote, sorry. That is correct!
Re: New Macbook overheats in Hangouts and Skype, microphone input garbled
#25Hangouts over taxes just about any machine, it's ridiculous. FCP exporting a 4k video uses less CPU than Hangouts does to show a choppy video feed.
Maybe FCP isn't as good as using all of the cores?
Re: New Macbook overheats in Hangouts and Skype, microphone input garbled
#26Hangouts over taxes just about any machine, it's ridiculous. FCP exporting a 4k video uses less CPU than Hangouts does to show a choppy video feed.
I use hangouts daily and unless I'm on a high end PC I switch to audio only to avoid the jet turbine effect. They really need to optimize.
Video encoding is expensive. You get to pick between more CPU usage or worse video quality.
Re: New Macbook overheats in Hangouts and Skype, microphone input garbled
#27Hangouts over taxes just about any machine, it's ridiculous. FCP exporting a 4k video uses less CPU than Hangouts does to show a choppy video feed.
Are you using Chrome? Apparently under Safari Hangout uses much less CPU.
While I don't think you're wrong, that's just .. dumb. They're both Google's products. You would think they would put some thought into that.
Re: New Macbook overheats in Hangouts and Skype, microphone input garbled
#28This is a severe problem for me with my 15" MBP. Long meetings (heck, even short) with colleagues make it extremely hot to the touch (keyboard and frame) and destroy the battery. Same with streaming netflix or youtube videos. Microphone seems fine but not great quality. It wasn't my decision to purchase this computer, it was my company's, but I'm very disappointed in its performance at simple two way audio video comm…
I'm relatively new to Macs, but it seems like it's partially a cultural thing. When I first got a macbook for work, I found my fingertips got really uncomfortable from how hot the keyboard and mousepad got, and assumed there was a problem to be solved, but several Mac-centric colleagues said they just got used to it. I wound up downloading some random app that lets you control when the fans turn on - and voila, a coo…
"You're holding it wrong!" Apple can do no wrong! /s
Re: New Macbook overheats in Hangouts and Skype, microphone input garbled
#29Hangouts over taxes just about any machine, it's ridiculous. FCP exporting a 4k video uses less CPU than Hangouts does to show a choppy video feed.
Are you using Chrome? Apparently under Safari Hangout uses much less CPU.
This seems highly doubtful. They are both Google's code - one is just packaged as a plugin rather than built into Chrome.
Re: New Macbook overheats in Hangouts and Skype, microphone input garbled
#30Yeah, my 2013 MacBook Air would turn into a little jet turbine if I was on skype for too long. But to be fair, Windows laptops do the same thing, I have no idea why video encoding for skype is so stupidly intensive. Is there no way to do it in hardware?