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MacBook Pro fan failure (experience with laptop fans in general)

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So the fan in my 2013 retina MacBook Pro is making terrible noises. Obviously, the machine is not covered under warranty any more. Classic. On my 2010 MacBook Pro, that was never an issue. Five years, no complaints.

So I'll have to fix it or get it fixed. Apparently they charge very reasonable amounts for this sort of thing, so might as well let them do it and have their guarantee of not fucking it up completely. Will need to get it inspected for free at the Apple Store tho.

Anyways, what is your general experience with laptop fans? Just curious. It makes no difference now. The replacement fan costs 60 bucks from iFixit...ouch. You pay for your non-symmetrical fan blades and what not. A bit disappointed.

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jet engine is nothing against my 2010 dell inspiron 15r.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ok

it is overheating (60°C right after booting) - will fix this within the next days.

but it never was real quiet this damn thing

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So the fan in my 2013 retina MacBook Pro is making terrible noises. Obviously, the machine is not covered under warranty any more. Classic. On my 2010 MacBook Pro, that was never an issue. Five years, no complaints.

So I'll have to fix it or get it fixed. Apparently they charge very reasonable amounts for this sort of thing, so might as well let them do it and have their guarantee of not fucking it up completely. Will need to get it inspected for free at the Apple Store tho.

Anyways, what is your general experience with laptop fans? Just curious. It makes no difference now. The replacement fan costs 60 bucks from iFixit...ouch. You pay for your non-symmetrical fan blades and what not. A bit disappointed.

I tried to fix my HP laptop fan a couple years ago.  got everything apart fine, cleaned out the fan, looked for a oil port (there was none of course) and ended up putting it back together with the same fan since it looked to be a major pain to replace and it was a crap laptop as it were.  I had some problems getting everything connected with the long thin ribbon cables.  I got everything connected except the keyboard after about 30 minutes but I could never get my keyboard connected again since everything was so tight when reassembling.  It still works fine with a wireless keyboard but I never did fix the fan noise.  I feel like I might be able to do it now that I know a little more but that was probably the last time I open the top end of a laptop (hdd, ram not included)

 

basically if I cared about that laptop at all I would've just paid to have the fan replaced.  I think I paid 400$ brand new so not worth it in my case.

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jet engine is nothing against my 2010 dell inspiron 15r.

ok

it is overheating (60°C right after booting) - will fix this within the next days.

but it never was real quiet this damn thing

The MacBook is a very quiet machine at idle... Now it has a whirring noise to it. It is especially bad when the fan spins down for sleep or shutdown. "Clickclickclick click click....click". As if the bearings were damaged or a solid plastic ribbon was in the way of the blades (pretty much impossible but that's the sound).

This thing cost a lot more than $400 so yeah, i'll let them replace it. Apple's repair service is at least good, from what I've seen them do, I'm impressed. Now let's hope it's not too expensive [emoji45].

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Core i7-4558U @ 3.2GHz II Intel Iris @ 1200MHz II 1TB Apple/Samsung SSD II 16 GB RAM @ 1600MHz

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I always thought they were passive

Only the new MacBook is... (The "helium" since it's lighter than air haha geddit)

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Hurricane force winds on my Acer Aspire 5741 - No cooling effect basically.

Jet engine sounds with my Advent 9411

Oh my mums HP Pavillion G6 - Hurricane force winds and jet noises with little to no cooling effect on it when flash starts to run. Same when a video feed starts in HTML5.

Ew... Sounds horrible. There's nothing wrong with the Mac. It cools just fine. Never had issues, until this fan failure... Gah

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Core i7-4558U @ 3.2GHz II Intel Iris @ 1200MHz II 1TB Apple/Samsung SSD II 16 GB RAM @ 1600MHz

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Hmm, my Acer laptop (i5-3210M) runs fairly quiet, but I did take it apart, polish and sand the heatsink base, and then applied aftermarket thermal paste. They really caked the OEM thermal paste on it, so after my fixes, the temps dropped nearly 12C / the fans runs a lot slower at idle now. Not going to lie, taking apart laptops is very nerve wracking business sometimes. The thinner ultrabooks just make servicing them all that much harder.

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