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MacBook Pro Fan Always Kicks on After a Few Minutes of Inactivity

MacBook Pro Fan Always Kicks on After a Few Minutes of Inactivity

Over the past couple of weeks, I've noticed that my macbook's fan ALWAYS kicks on after a few minutes of inactivity. It doesn't seem to matter how many programs I have open or what I was doing previously. If I let my comp site idle for a few minutes, I will hear the fan spin up. I can confirm that something was going on by looking at the CPU usage graph from activity monitor and the CPU graphs from iStat menus. Once I start using my mac again the CPU usage drops and the fans return to their usual 2000rpm. Is this just the OS doing stuff once it detects that I'm not doing anything? Has anyone else experienced this? Can anyone offer an actual explanation of what's going on?

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Guest [Entry]

"Kind of obvious, but... You don't happen to have some 3D screensaver set up to start after a few minutes? :)

I used to have that issue with my MacBook so I ended up switching to a more lightweight ""screensaver"", i.e. blank screen."