Vista Runs Hot on Macbook Pro

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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What the hardware gives the software takes away

[Heir Of The Mess]

This shouldn't be a surprise. Windows has always been a resource hog on the PC, and it's always the case that when the hardware improves to handle the current version of Windows, Microsoft goes and releases a new version with some extra bells and whistles that have been bolted on and thus require more hardware capability. There are exceptions of course. I remember the first time I upgraded from NT 3.1 to NT 3.51 and the improvement in speed and responsiveness on the same hardware was amazing! Then they went and killed it with NT 4.0 :-/

Vista is a big experiment for Microsoft, and it's pretty obvious that the design goal of Vista was to not let any piece of hardware go to waste, thus it's definately going to drive any laptop or desktop to be hotter.

Better Take Away Message. Hot was predicted.

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Apple's top-end laptop runs Vista better than a high-end Sony Vaio

So we can conclude that Apple's second best effort beats out M$'s best effort? Is carefully caged the best way to run Vista? Make me laugh.

The reason that the hot issue is of concern is that it was predicted from problems with power management on other core duo platforms. M$ apologists tried to pin the blame on the chipset and it was postulated that the problem was with Vista and that a Mac would prove the case by not having power problems. This article seems to have proved out that prediction. It was reported here by another user just 11 days ago, and ultimately M$ admitted to it. Again the apologists rushed in with sarcasm, insults and bad humor. The bottom line, as usual, is that M$ is second rate and can't keep up despite their tremendous monopoly advantage.

Sure, M$ might fix the problem one day. Just like Windoze 98 fixed Win95 USB problems but then W2K and XP fixed them again, sort of. I'm not holding my breath for Vista provide reliable power management.

In the mean time, like forever, you are better off with other software. Nothing new here.

A little history to the issue.

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More likely is that Apple needs to release Vista power management drivers.

This is not an Apple or CoreDuo problem. It was predicted and admitted and now, months later, they still have not fixed it.

None of this matters to me, but it's amusing. As a free software user I'm used to power management that works, faster turn around and don't have a need for much more than 1GHz class performance which is very cheap these days. Watching M$ apologists do the as they do since the days when M$ broke Win3.1 for DrDOS and then blamed DrDOS gets old but it's never dull.

Re:Better Take Away Message. Hot was predicted.

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How is a Sony Vaio MS's best effort?

Don't they still come with a crappy "Designed for Windoze Version of the Decade" sticker on them still?

Way to miss the point. Non free still broken.

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So MS bought out Sony and is now making Vaios ?

No, but it's funny that Vista works better on some half hearted "boot" camp than it does on other similar hardware made by M$ Partners and "Designed for Winblows". The obvious conclusion is that Vista is still a train wreck with random performance, if you can get it to run at all.

You would think that a company that gets all the specs and drivers from their vendors would be able to do better than that by the magic of cross licensing. Hell, M$ helped to write the APM and APCI non standard "standards". Apparently, the "traditional" approach to software writing is broken. Vista is six years and counting, and still does not have fundamental issues like power management licked. That's shocking.