Konfanulator
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been experiencing heavy fan activity on the new Mac. I was expecting the 12″ model to run hot like the previous version did, but it’s not hot - it’s just fanning itself a lot. After a disappointing experiment with the flat-surface solution (putting the laptop on a flat table instead of my lap), I consulted Google, Font of All Knowledge.
Konfabulator turned out to be part of the problem, according to this helpful blog entry from Mac-Mike. Apparently it’s a CPU hog. Though it pained me greatly, I closed Konfabulator down. Fannage dropped immediately from the high-speed fan setting to the low-speed setting.
My next project will be dropping down from low-speed fan to no fan, without resorting to external fin solutions like the LapTopCooler.
[Update] That didn’t take long. The Apple Knowledge Base recommends sleeping the hard drive and reducing processor performance. My hard drive was already set to sleep, but setting processor performance to “reduced” nipped that fan in the bud.
I spoke too soon - it just powered up again.