Cool off your Macbook with smcFanControl

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Cool off your Macbook with smcFanControl

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Previously Dale had mentioned his Macbook was getting hot, here’s a tool to manually control the fan to cool that puppy down…

  • Let’s you set the minimum speed for each fan individually.
  • Adjust fan speed until the Macbook(Pro) is finally comfortable on your legs again
  • Auto apply mode to set the new fan-speeds after a restart
  • Sourcecode included! Extend it and change it to your needs

smcFanControl – Link.

More:

Updated version, smcFanControl 2.0 – Link.

2 thoughts on “Cool off your Macbook with smcFanControl

  1. aplumb says:

    Thanks for the link to 2.0; hadn’t spotted that one.

    Not sure why those links always resolve to an IP address on the Mac (they stay “homepage.mac.com” on the WinXP machine here), but the original URL is/was http://homepage.mac.com/holtmann/eidac/software/page5/page5.html

    …and the new one: http://homepage.mac.com/holtmann/eidac/software/smcfancontrol2/index.html

    Enjoy!

    Andrew.

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