04-18-2022, 12:16 PM
Diana wrote:
I don’t hear the fans on mine. Granted, my house isn’t whisper quiet, either. I’ve pushed it hard, as well, and still not heard the fans.
What have you been working on that pushes it that hard? Perhaps I can reproduce it and see if it’s just your Studio or not, since I have the same model.
That's the thing, I haven't pushed it hard for the most part. From the first time it booted, it's been the steady "whoosh" of the fans. As I write this, activity monitor is showing me about 95% CPU idle. I don't think I've even heard it ramp up fan speed, even while doing some video work and encoding jobs that took an hour or so.
The only explanation that I can come up with is that they're building these units in different factories and one factory is using a different fan than the other. I can't think of anything else that would result in such different experiences by Studio owners. The other thing to consider is the different heatsinks used by the Max and Ultra models. I don't have a sense as to whether the Ultra is more likely to be quiet than the Max.
Ultimately, my hunch is that they'll quietly address this in some way at some point, whether through a firmware update or by using different hardware/fans. I'll just hold off at this point until there's a consensus that this area has been addressed. It is a v1 product after all...