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  • 1.  Heat...

    Posted Jun 16, 2007 03:59 AM

    Greetings all,

    I have a new MacBook pro 2Gb that I have installed XPpro on a BootCamp partition. When I boot in XP the computer runs extremely hot. Will running in Fusion reduce the amount of heat generated?

    I also have a 23" Cinema display that I connect to my MB when I am working at home, however I can't run XP on it with the lid closed. Will I be able to to do this running fusion? Again I am wondering about the heat issue.

    Thanks in advance,

    Phil



  • 2.  RE: Heat...

    Posted Jun 16, 2007 04:39 AM

    If you're worried about heat, the \*last* thing you should be doing is running your laptop with it's lid closed (regardless of whether your're booted into XP or Fusion).

    As for which would generate less heat... I have no idea. On a theoretical level I'd say that running XP on it's own would generate less (because you're running one OS, not two), but to be practical, I don't know... running XP in Parallels seemed faster than running XP "live" which tells me that the OS X overhead, for some things, may not be much of a contributing factor (i.e. heat is generated more by how hard the system is working... the harder it works, the more heat it generates).

    Of course, I could be just blowing smoke here... =)

    Seriously tho. If heat is at all a concern for you, please don't run your laptop with the lid closed. You cut off some very necessary venting by doing so.



  • 3.  RE: Heat...

    Posted Jun 16, 2007 10:01 AM

    Running in VMware may be cooler, since Mac OS X - not Windows (or Linux, or whatever else you run in a VM) is handling the power management - and Apple surely knows its own hardware better than Microsoft. However, I do think that newer releases of Boot Camp (and of Linux, in that case) are improving power management support on Macs.



  • 4.  RE: Heat...

    Posted Jun 16, 2007 12:04 PM

    It will run hotter if you do not have your VMtools installed I almost burned my leg :smileyhappy: Try the 1.3 version of boot camp and update the apple drivers. I have a Santa Rosa machine and it runs a little warm and gets hot under heavy load but cools down really fast.



  • 5.  RE: Heat...

    Posted Jun 16, 2007 12:30 PM

    A useful program for anyone who has temperature issues is Fan Control which is free and can be found here http://www.lobotomo.com/products/FanControl/. I also use SMCFanControl to monitor the temp. This can be found here http://homepage.mac.com/holtmann/eidac/