My new MacBook Pro M4 is making strange noises (like a bird or screeching) while rendering heavy effects on the timeline in the editing software. (I've already tried entering Safe Mode and working that way, but it doesn't help.)
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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 15.1
I think yes. It happens when I use a heavy plugin during video editing or 3D rendering. Especially loud sound when macbook is connected by type -C to the monitor from which it gets 65W charging. (Without it, it's audible, but less so). I also recorded it, so you can compare. Why didn't it happen on M1? Yeah on M1 he couldn't cope with those plugins, immediately turned on the fans. This one's only 40% to 45% loaded, but it's making this noise.
What readers? Besides you, I don’t see anyone under every post about coil whine posting a YouTube link claiming it’s SSD noise. No, it’s not the SSD making the noise. They couldn’t have put such an SSD in a $6000 MacBook. Right now, there’s the same M4 next to me, and I’m running the same tests on it. Want some magic? There’s no such noise there! Tomorrow, I’ll be heading to Apple service again.
Not loud, but audible if the room is quiet.
Hi, have you had your laptop serviced? I just have the same noise when rendering 3D, will they recognize it as a defect?
if its sound is like the "SSD drives are not silent" you tube video above, it is not considered a defect.
Your SSD drive is writing so fast, that its switching noises become audible. Because the fans do not drown it out, you hear it.
Yes, I already took it to the Apple service center. Of course, they said everything is fine, and they didn’t find any issues. But the problem lies in poorly insulated coils. Overall, it seems the M4 has some issues. I also experience this sound when using heavy plugins during video editing.
<< But the problem lies in poorly insulated coils.>>
when the original Mac Studio (with partial wrap-around air exit grille) made nosies, similar accusations, "It's Coli while" were leveled it turned out to be nothing of that sort at all. The unit developed a bona-fide whistling noise, and it has NOTHING to do with coils at all. Covering one end of the wrap-around stopped the noise and the grille was quickly re-designed.)
Readers have already told you they think your noise is likely SSD Write noise. There is no basis for the suggestion that this is coil whine.
To eliminate coil whine, you squeeze clear silicone-sealer (completely non-conductive and stable up to about 500 F (260 C) into the open wire windings on the big coils in the Power supply. Once it sets up, the coil windings stop vibrating, and no more coli whine.
MacBook Pro is built around 20 Volts battery voltages, and it does not use any higher Voltages directly. MacBook Pro does not have a big beefy power supply like the Max Studio with large wire-wound coils in it. Essentially, it has no big coils to whine.
Other than the SSD noise, the only other parts that could make noise are the fans.
how loud?
MacBook Pro M4 strange noises during rendering
