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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. this isn't exactly new by thegoogler · · Score: 4, Informative

    windows 2000 even always ran hotter than any other OS on my laptops, i remember hearing an explanation a long time ago that they ignore the "wait" cycles or somesuch running the cpu harder than intended.

  2. Windows Drains Battery? by aitikin · · Score: 4, Informative

    Everyone I know who has a windows laptop of any form has always found that the battery drains quickly. Granted I don't know too many people who condition their batteries properly or anything of the sort, but it kind of leads me to believe that Windows doesn't do a whole lot with power management over all.

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  3. Re:Better than an almost year old Sony by Sillygates · · Score: 5, Informative

    This guy compared a dual core apple to a single core vaio. Thats hardly a fair representation of a high end PC vs apple benchmark.

    Also, acording to a few reports, the MacBook has an underclocked gpu (possibly to reduce heat), so it may not be able to even match a similarly loaded machine, at least when it comes to directX/OpenGL, Vista's territory.

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  4. Re:Better than an almost year old Sony by feanor512 · · Score: 4, Informative

    I can confirm that. The X1600 Pro in the MBP 15" in Windows XP runs at 310/290 instead of the ATI default 475/475. I have no way of testing it in OS X though. It is unstable at 475/475 which leads me to believe that Apple has undervolted it. Also, it runs at about 400/400 in the 20" iMac.