The air-intakes could be clogged with dust, it’s a simple job to open the laptop up and clean the fans out. It could also be software like CleanMyMac or Gemini working in the background and causing the CPU to heat up.
If you install a solid state drive in place of the hard drive, you’ll find the laptop a lot cooler as it gets everything done in a fraction of the time. Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <https://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 21 Dec 2017, at 12:30, Tilly <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear all, > I have a work horse of a MBP that I love dearly. Specs are MacBook Pro > (13-inch, Early 2011) 2.7 GHz Intel Core i7 running 10.11.6 (15G18013) Memory > 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 Graphics Intel HD Graphics 3000 512 MB. > Recently it has started to be much noisier (more constant fan noise) - it > seems to have started after I recovered several GB of space with CleanMyMac 3 > and Gemini 2. I haven't done any 'maintenance' on it at all so is there > something I can do to improve its performance? It also seems to run the > battery down very quickly when unplugged. > Any advice welcome. > While I'm here Seasons Greetings and a Very Happy New Year to everyone! > Tilly > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
