How hot or warm is your MacBook Pro M3 max 16 inch.

[MLRphotography]

Just got a new 16 inch MacBook M3 max 16 core. The bottom gets pretty warm doing just some editing in Lightroom and photoshop. Trying to figure out if this is normal. Anyone else’s m3 max getting pretty warm or hot.

 

[MacDevil7334]

I have the same configuration and have not noticed it getting warm using Lightroom and Photoshop so far. I will say I haven’t really given it a large sustained workload yet. My largest single import so far has only been 100ish images. But overall it seems to be just a faster version of my M1 Max and I’m very pleased so far.

Edit: When you say “just got” your MBP, how recently do you mean? The computer will do a bunch of background tasks in the first few days (indexing, photos face recognition, etc.) and that will utilize the processor. If you have only had the machine 3 days or less, I would give it a little more time to settle down.

 

[MLRphotography]

I have a had it for a little over a week now. I thought the samething but I feel it should be settled by now

 

[ksj1]

When running inference on local LLM's mine gets pretty hot. Same with unit tests and compiling code. I think its normal.

 

[Beau10]

When pushed w/ inference or gaming I see the power consumption spiking from about 10 to 110 watts. Takes 5 seconds to get warm and maybe 20 to get hot w/ fans blazing.

For just about anything else I do it never spikes above 20watts and remains cold to the touch.