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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. Not to troll, but... by Ryan+Amos · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is this news? A beta OS doesn't run at full capacity on a specific piece of hardware? More likely is that Apple needs to release Vista power management drivers. They probably will do so once Vista is officially released. It's not really worthy of a news posting; maybe as a footnote in a larger review of Vista itself.

  2. Seems interesting enough by SachiCALaw · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But for now, I'll let other Mac users be the test dummies for using Vista on a Mac. Both Vista and the needed Mac drivers are too undeveloped for me to want to try Vista on my computer yet.

  3. Um... a few things... by MSFanBoi2 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First, why is this even considered news?

    Second, last I checked Vista was not complete. If people even bothered to read the release notes for RC1 you would see Microsoft specifically mentions that the power savings functionality is not yet complete.

    Third, as was mentioned multiple times by the reviewer, Apple has not released drivers for Vista yet. Since when is this Microsoft's fault?

    1. Re:Um... a few things... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      It's kinda hard to defend Microsoft when they can't even figure out if it's Beta or an actual Release Candidate.

  4. that would be a hardware problem by oohshiny · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think any laptop that overheats because of software is badly designed. Critical functionality, like running the fans etc., should not depend on the operating system. If the OS can influence the behavior of such hardware functionality, there should be smart failsafe mechanisms.

    Note that even supported operating systems can get wedged, either because of bugs in the OS, or because of driver problems or other hardware issues; you don't want your laptop to go up in flames when your Ethernet card develops a fault and makes the kernel hang.

  5. Re:Way to miss the point. Non free still broken. by Khuffie · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Way to sound like a douchebag. Once again, it's MS, not M$. Second of all, he's comparing a Pentium M on the Sony Vaio to the vastly superior Core Duo chip, not to mention that the M is a single core while the Core Duo is, oh, I don't know, a dual core machine. FYI, just to feed your trolling, Vista (Beta 2) managed to run my laptops battery longer than XP did.

  6. Re:I concur by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "--you're just not doing anything." Huh? You mean that you are have 0 bpm heartrate, no breathing, no muscle tension, no brain activity!!