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Im Juni 2017 brachte Apple die Neuausgabe vom 13" MacBook Air heraus. Es erhielt den neueren Broadwell Intel Core i5 Prozessor, die Leistung und Akkulaufzeit stieg dadurch etwas an.

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2017 MacBook Air Gets Hot Too Quickly/Loses A Lot of Battery

My 13-inch 2017 MacBook Air (MacBookAir7,2) has been recently getting hot way too quickly. There are times when my Air on the north housing part of the keyboard by the vents are hot (like burning hot). Sometimes if it gets too hot, my keyboard is also hot too. Doing simple task, my Air get’s too hot. If I watch a Youtube video, it get’s hot. If I have two tabs open, it get’s hot. I also noticed that my battery has been draining way too much quickly. When I charge my Air, it charges super quick too. This has been pretty recent for the past few months and I’m not too sure what is happening.

I bought the Air new back in 2018, so it has been doing pretty stable. However, I noticed a few things, but I can’t tell if this is what it getting my Air to get hot quickly:

  • My charger that originally came with the Air has developed some yellowing over the years. The charger also gets (burning) hot when charging my Air and the cord that is yellowed also gets hot (but not burning hot).
  • Because of quarantine, my Air is my only laptop for school so I had to run a lot of heavy applications which would run hot only when I ran those applications at that time. Much of the applications were more suited for a MacBook Pro than an Air (considering that the Air isn’t meant to handle a lot of those heavy applications but I didn’t have a choice at the time).
  • Those heavy applications have taken up a lot of my battery when I would run it and I would have to charge my Air almost everyday—sometimes two times a day even at 100%. It should be noted that my battery charge cycle is right now at 857 which is close to the capacity of the maximum charge cycle for an Air which is 1000.
    • System Information says this: Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 6329/ Cycle Count: 857/ Condition: Normal
  • I’ve noticed that my fan isn’t working as it used to. If it got too hot in the past, it would spin to cool my Air down—even with the heavy applications running. Now it doesn’t even spin to cool my Air down when it get’s too hot.
  • I never opened up may Air, so I’m not too sure how dusty the inside is.

I say burning hot because I cannot even keep finger on the area for more than a few seconds. I know the parts of the MacBook Air, but I’m not as knowledgable with the science/coding side of things. What could be the cause of this? Is my battery draining a lot because of the way the Air is heating? What would I need to change? Battery, fan, thermal paste, etc? Let me know. Thank you!

EDIT: As requested, here is the CoconutBattery screenshot.

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I would try to replace the battery first(you can get a new one here, guide here). I think the high amount of charge cycles, in addition to the heat and highly intensive apps which take more power to run, have worn down the battery.

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While your battery is getting close to its life limit (1,000 cycles), it doesn’t look like its your current issue Determine battery cycle count for Mac notebooks

I would focus in on cleaning the dust buildup internally. Making sure the fan and the heat sink fin area are clean of dust and debris that builds up over time. Use a soft paint brush and a can of can’ed air to blow away what you’ve loosened up.

I would install a good thermal monitoring app like TG Pro its still one of the best out there and is reasonably priced for what it offers. It will allow you to pump up the fans RPM to help keep your system cool when you’re stressing it.

You may need to replace the heat sink as I’ve often seen the heat transfer tube spring a leak of its coolant, so the heat is not getting pulled away. Using TG Pro should help in identifying if this is the case.

The last thing is reducing your application load. Try to limit what you are running concurrently as well as =helper apps which are auto loaded. Your system is limited to 8 GB of physical RAM, so when you need more RAM space it needs to reach into your drive to leverage it as virtual RAM. As your system is also limited with its storage (128, 256, or 512 GB) you need to make sure your drive has free space for the VRAM can sit, otherwise your system has to work even harder (think heat) to work in smaller chunks of data which also wears your drive! Unlike spinning iron drives (HDD’s) Solid State Drives (SSD’s) have a limited write cycles.

Think of it this way… If you remember cassette tape players a song recorded once and played often will over time become distorted as the tape will stretch or can even snap! As that point the tape is trashed. Even if you don’t play it that often but use it to record your notes the quality of the recording degrades after many repeated recordings it has received before you know it you’re hearing the older recordings just under your newest.

So you may need a new drive and if you really need what you have on it you should aim to have 1/3 of the smaller drive for free space, and the largest aim for better than 1/4 of free space. I do recommend sticking with the proper SSD drives for your system Apple, OWC or Transcend which are fully compatible MacBook Air (13 Zoll, Anfang 2017) SSD tauschen.

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