Question for macbook users

[jc0481]

I have a macbook and whenever I go to youtube.com to see videos my fans start off slowly and get louder and run full blast when I have multiple tabs opened on youtube.com and when I watch only one or two. When I close the tabs and go to a site that does not have flash video on it it goes back to its quiet self. I am just wondering if this is normal?? Because I know flash consumes a lot of the cpu. I hope this is normal. I asked an Apple Genius the other day and he did not know. Hope you guys know. Thank you

JC

 

[angelwatt]

Yea, video usually kicks up my fans whether it's online video or just using Quicktime. I usually have a number of applications open too so that is probably part of it as well.

 

[MacAodh]

my macbook has similar problems... it gets very hot and the fans go ten to the dozen... Biggest problem is when I'm just watching a dvd or something, can't use the internal speakers at all... just too loud

 

[tuftywhite]

Yea, video usually kicks up my fans whether it's online video or just using Quicktime. I usually have a number of applications open too so that is probably part of it as well.

Same for me.

 

[Jiddick ExRex]

It is normal. Hell, when I used to visit break.com last year their flash player implementation was so horrible that it consumed 100% of the CPU of my old iBook. Luckily they have fixed it.

 

[d_saum]

I have a macbook and whenever I go to youtube.com to see videos my fans start off slowly and get louder and run full blast when I have multiple tabs opened on youtube.com and when I watch only one or two. When I close the tabs and go to a site that does not have flash video on it it goes back to its quiet self. I am just wondering if this is normal?? Because I know flash consumes a lot of the cpu. I hope this is normal. I asked an Apple Genius the other day and he did not know. Hope you guys know. Thank you

JC

same same

 

[capoeirista]

+1 here too. Just got to live with it I suppose.

 

[lost eden]

If you're watching the videos full-screen then yes it is only expected for the fan to speed up - upscaling video on-the-fly is extremely processor intensive, especially if it's handling any smoothing/resampling in the process.