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The March 2015 update of Apple's 13" MacBook Pro Retina Display, model A1502, features fifth-generation Intel Core i5 and i7 processors and introduces the Force Touch trackpad.

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Is it bad that my laptop fan comes on everytime I use it?

Within 10 minutes of me using my laptop, the fan comes on. It's not very loud, but I can definitely hear it. The fan doesn't shut off until I have closed the lid to my laptop.

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Being usually a quiet machine, although it's normal the fans get started after some usage I see here several options:

  • You use your macbook for fairly demanding tasks
  • You are a person very sensitive to noise and use it mainly in silent environment
  • Some undesired task is started up using consistently a high percentage of your processor.

In case the latter seems to you the best explanation, when fans start you can open Activity monitor you will find in Application/Utility folder. Select from menu to show _all_ processes running and see what's using most CPU.

That will give you a clearer picture on what's happening and might answer your question about fans.

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To add to @arbaman great answer. You might also want to look at what the thermal sensors within your system are doing and how they are effecting the fan. This is a great tool for that: TG Pro

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@danj Thanks for adding on further infos and help :)

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