Chris, I have the 11in Air 2012, you can hear the fan, as with all Apple laptops, but, and this is important, generally you should only hear it when the machine is working hard.
So, when I first set up my Mac, Moving Drop Box in, which has like 130Gb of files, that caused the fan to crank right up to full, its not what I would call noisy, but, without a doubt you can hear it even when you are not standing / sitting in front of the machine. Other though than large file transfers, or intensive operations, the fan should be next to completely quiet. I will tell you this, if I press shut down, the noise difference between on and just e-mail, web browsing etc, and off, is so low by way of difference, I have to rest my ear to the keyboard to hear the difference between on and off. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, as well as an Apple iOS, Macintosh and Android accessibility specialist. For all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 15 Oct 2012, at 02:57, Chris Bruinenberg <cbrui...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > I just bought a macbook air. > I noticed that the fan is always on, it also sounds like it's rattling. > Is this normal, if not, i'd like to send it back to best buy before my thirty > days end. > Thanks for any help. > Chris > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
