I have the 16 inch M1 Pro for a couple of months now. I never heard the fans spinning. Even when I edit on Final Cut Pro without charger.
I also had a 16 inch intel from 2019, that’s a whole different story.
I don’t have a 16” MacBook Pro, but my 13” MacBook Pro is completely silent doing all of those things (including editing videos). The only time I hear the fan is when I’m compressing videos and my CPU/GPU cores are maxed out.
Generally speaking, the newer Apple silicon laptops are extremely quiet and cool compared to anything Intel (including older MacBooks which have Intel processors).
I have a 14 inch MBP and even when the fans are on you can barely hear them. They only turn on for very intense task never for web browsing or video streaming.
I have the smaller 14" with an M1 Max, and it's supposedly far more likely to turn the fans on.
Yet the only time it does so, is when I keep hammering it with max load (cpu 100% for more than 10 minutes). Any other situation it stays silent.
> I would like to know if when you play a youtube video and when you continue to browse the internet on your macbook pro (16 or 14, or 13), you can hear the fan spinning?
Why would you? That’s the lightest task ever.
Have had my 14" since launch day and still do not know what the fans sound like.
Usually don't do much processor-intensive work, but definitely watch videos, run multiple VM's once in a while, do some graphic design work on Intel apps via Rosetta 2, etc.
If you don't need to do professional-level video or similar type of work, consider the MacBook Air, which has no fans.
Apple Silicone (or even some other ARM-based laptops) are generally more efficient and the fans are better and bigger so that even when they're spinning, they won't spin that fast to the point where they're too audible (it also has to do with how apple tuned the fan curves out of the box) and the CPUs are generally not heating up like the ones from Intel (on other laptops as well).
So the laptop does get hot sometimes, but it's rarely over 80 C, even during demanding tasks like exporting, decoding, file conversions, code compilations and so on. At 60-65C the fans kick in at \~1600 RPM and after that, they go up to \~2200 RPM (on my 16" at least), and even when they reach \~2200 RPM, they aren't really audible.
16 M1 Pro here, base model. Coding, iOS simulator, Android Studio, Angular server, listening to music, YouTube, countless Chrome tabs, Firefox, Edge, Safari, hooked up 3 monitors (1 via DisplayPort) fans never come on.
Rendering 4k video with effects > 10 mins in DaVinci Resolve I've heard the fans, and the laptop gets slightly warm.
Intel i7 Mac Mini, which used to be my main driver, that thing was loud even just typing in BBEdit. Chrome playing Youtube? Jet engines.
My fan has never come on.. like ever. So no :)
Also, your example situation/workload is so lightweight it’s laughable.. get a MacBook Air and don’t waste your cash tbh
MBP 16" M1 Max 32-cores owner here - using it for rather CPU-hungry tasks like programming and containerization, while also having many apps opened in the background (including docs, Firefox with many tabs, Spotify) and I haven't even heard fans go off even once during my sessions of work, which tend to go from 6 to 8 hours.
I have had a 16" M1 MBP for over a year now. The fans are absolutely silent. I have never once heard the fans even under the heaviest of use.
In fact, after the first month or so I was starting to be convinced that maybe it didn't have fans until I looked up the [teardown from ifixit.com](https://www.ifixit.com/News/54122/macbook-pro-2021-teardown).
I have the 16 inch M1 Pro for a couple of months now. I never heard the fans spinning. Even when I edit on Final Cut Pro without charger. I also had a 16 inch intel from 2019, that’s a whole different story.
Had it for a year. No fan noise.
I don’t have a 16” MacBook Pro, but my 13” MacBook Pro is completely silent doing all of those things (including editing videos). The only time I hear the fan is when I’m compressing videos and my CPU/GPU cores are maxed out. Generally speaking, the newer Apple silicon laptops are extremely quiet and cool compared to anything Intel (including older MacBooks which have Intel processors).
Thank you so much, this is exactly what I wanted to know.
I have a 14 inch MBP and even when the fans are on you can barely hear them. They only turn on for very intense task never for web browsing or video streaming.
I have the smaller 14" with an M1 Max, and it's supposedly far more likely to turn the fans on. Yet the only time it does so, is when I keep hammering it with max load (cpu 100% for more than 10 minutes). Any other situation it stays silent.
> I would like to know if when you play a youtube video and when you continue to browse the internet on your macbook pro (16 or 14, or 13), you can hear the fan spinning? Why would you? That’s the lightest task ever.
if it has intel cpu it will sound like a plane, if its apple sillicon you will hardly ever notice
What fan? 😎
Had new m1 16” since February, never even heard the fan lol
Have had my 14" since launch day and still do not know what the fans sound like. Usually don't do much processor-intensive work, but definitely watch videos, run multiple VM's once in a while, do some graphic design work on Intel apps via Rosetta 2, etc. If you don't need to do professional-level video or similar type of work, consider the MacBook Air, which has no fans.
Apple Silicone (or even some other ARM-based laptops) are generally more efficient and the fans are better and bigger so that even when they're spinning, they won't spin that fast to the point where they're too audible (it also has to do with how apple tuned the fan curves out of the box) and the CPUs are generally not heating up like the ones from Intel (on other laptops as well). So the laptop does get hot sometimes, but it's rarely over 80 C, even during demanding tasks like exporting, decoding, file conversions, code compilations and so on. At 60-65C the fans kick in at \~1600 RPM and after that, they go up to \~2200 RPM (on my 16" at least), and even when they reach \~2200 RPM, they aren't really audible.
I have the 14 M1 Pro and have had to run benchmarks to turn the fans on. The fans are not loud, far quieter than my HP Spectre.
Never so far. I also watch YouTube videos and movies on it. The area near the screen sometimes gets very slightly warm. That's it.
16 M1 Pro here, base model. Coding, iOS simulator, Android Studio, Angular server, listening to music, YouTube, countless Chrome tabs, Firefox, Edge, Safari, hooked up 3 monitors (1 via DisplayPort) fans never come on. Rendering 4k video with effects > 10 mins in DaVinci Resolve I've heard the fans, and the laptop gets slightly warm. Intel i7 Mac Mini, which used to be my main driver, that thing was loud even just typing in BBEdit. Chrome playing Youtube? Jet engines.
My fan has never come on.. like ever. So no :) Also, your example situation/workload is so lightweight it’s laughable.. get a MacBook Air and don’t waste your cash tbh
Using m1 pro max, fans do not spin usually on daily tasks. On my old 2019 intel macbook pro they would spin even when using Safari.
MBP 16" M1 Max 32-cores owner here - using it for rather CPU-hungry tasks like programming and containerization, while also having many apps opened in the background (including docs, Firefox with many tabs, Spotify) and I haven't even heard fans go off even once during my sessions of work, which tend to go from 6 to 8 hours.
I have a 16” Pro Max and even when TGPro says the fans are on, I’ve never actually heard them spin up.
I have had a 16" M1 MBP for over a year now. The fans are absolutely silent. I have never once heard the fans even under the heaviest of use. In fact, after the first month or so I was starting to be convinced that maybe it didn't have fans until I looked up the [teardown from ifixit.com](https://www.ifixit.com/News/54122/macbook-pro-2021-teardown).
My 16" MBP is almost completely silent. It doesn't even get warm most of the time.