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Vista Runs Hot on Macbook Pro

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sweaty-legs dept.

PetManimal writes "Ken Mingis, Computerworld's Mac editor, has given Vista a spin on his Macbook Pro in order to review and compare hardware performance with OS X. It's not a rigorous benchmarking, but he does notice a few issues relating to power consumption: 'Since installing Vista, I have found that my MacBook Pro runs hot. No doubt Microsoft hasn't worked on power management issues that might affect Apple hardware, which leaves me to wonder whether I'm slowly cooking the motherboard of my laptop. It's not hot enough to fry an egg on the aluminum case, but my laptop is noticeably warmer than when I use Mac OS X. I've also noticed that battery life is substantially reduced. Once again, energy management for Apple hardware is not likely at the top of Microsoft's list. Once Apple writes updated drivers to work with Vista, I'd expect these issues to be addressed.'"

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  1. the point by BladesP9 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Running Vista on a Macbook would be like putting a lawnmower engine in a corvette.

  2. Re:Both are crappy companies, so who cares? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "For the 1000th time, just use Linux"

    The 99 previous Linux crashes were probably just a fluke.

  3. And I ... by sbulut77 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And I just put a BMW engine in my Honda Civic and my Honda still handles like a Honda with little more horse power.

  4. Re:Wow by TheGreek · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Sure, that is why they kept making trivial changes to the win32s api that served little or no technical purpose, requiring a new version of a dll that would break on OS/2. Each time IBM fixed this, they did it again, thereby ensuring people could not run the latest Windows software (including the software sold by MS itself)

    If there was a 'strategic' reason for this (preserving customer lockin for example) then surely they did such things in the past, and I have not yet found a reason to believe they changed.
    Are you fucking retarded? Seriously.

    Microsoft fucking with OS/2's "run Windows apps without buying Windows" and Microsoft fucking with "buy a copy of Windows to run on your Mac" are two completely different things.