I wish more manufacturers worked harder to keep fan noise down to between none and barely audible without severely throttling the CPU and GPU or toasting your lap. My laptop shouldn't be spinning up its fan just because I plugged in something as pedestrian as a 2560x1440 60hz monitor (as my ThinkPad X1 Nano likes to).
I have owned probably 7 laptops over the past 20 years and every single one with a fan turned into a rattling jet engine mess. Do modern laptops not do this anymore? It was at least half the reason I got the Macbook Air
I have a work-issued Lenovo ThinkCentre M Tiny...it's so infuriatingly loud! The fans seem to spin up at completely random times that have nothing to do with workload, and they're incredibly loud.
Once you experience a computer that is absolutely silent, it’s really hard to go back to a normal laptop. My windows notebook spins it’s fan constantly and it drives me crazy. I have to put the machine to sleep and unplug the charger just to shut the damn thing up when I’m not using it
Honestly it sounds like you may want to get your fans checked out. Or perhaps you work in a totally silent environment? Loud is of course subjective, but my rMBP has the quietest laptop fans I've ever used.
To me it is the air conditioning fans that are roaring.
Today modern laptops emit almost no sound.
Also noise cancelling headphones was a good investment for me. Strange, that device created for use in helicopters proved so useful in office environment.
To give you a feel, one evening in the office when I turned off my laptop; colleagues stood up and asked what loud noise just turned off.
From that day, we noticed that our laptops were loud because of the fans. Sometimes the noise blends in because of AC and generally noise office. But the pitch is very high, and it's because CPU @ 60+ because the McAfee web control thing is running even though one has no browser open.
IT haven't been helpful, to the point where against compliance, a few of us being our own laptops to work, and use company ones here and there
I had a laptop that did that (got people noticing), I went to IT a few times to tell them that something was wrong with my laptop, as colleagues' were a bit quieter.
I wish that I'd have been more firm with getting a replacement. I now have tinnitus after a year of a really loud laptop. I'm in my early 30s. I can't even tolerate my desktop with relatively quiet fans.
One day in the office, I shutdown my laptop for the day after the air conditioners turned off at 5pm. There were about 6 people left in the room, everyone noticed that "something had just turned off".
Be careful that your laptop doesn't damage your hearing.
FWIW, I've had a M1, M1 Pro, and M2 Max laptop (different work/personal machines) all with fans, but I've never heard them turn on in several years of development work, no matter how many windows, apps, etc. I had open or how many things I was compiling.
The only times I heard the fan turn on were when the GPU was heavily burdened, like AAA games, especially when they're emulated in Rosetta or Wine. But for everything else, the fans never came on. These days, I suspect they'd come on for AI training (but I never tried).
Just anecdotal data for anyone contemplating an upgrade to one of the fanned versions. They tend to be more powerful than the non-fanned versions, but in regular everyday use you would likely never hear them. I didn't even know they had fans until I tried to play graphics-intensive games on them.
my first computer had a problem with the fan so that every few hours it would start to rattle so loud it would wake me up in the middle of night. the only way to make it stop was to hit/punch the damn thing.
eventually there was this fist sized dent in the side of the case.
besides losing sleep, i never really understood people who fawn over super-quiet pcs, unless they are going for a media center. our way around that was using a pa system for sound. not only did it drown out the cpu fan, but it rattled the walls.
nowadays though, d-link's dsm series seems to be killing the media center pc concept. we found one on CL's free stuff, and it's pretty amazing. haha don't ask me why he was giving it away.
My Clevo’s cooling fan is also super loud, which ramps up too frequently like many open tabs or playing video and light weight games. Unfortunately I forgot to look into the audio decibels detail when buying this most recent laptop.
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