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    Hot windows in boot camp

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by tomcom2k, Jul 20, 2009.

  1. tomcom2k

    tomcom2k Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm trying to find out if lack of fan control is still an issue on mid-summer unibody macbook pro's in bootcamp with windows vista.

    Lots of articles around but none specifically address these new machines.

    Anybody with one experiencing a hot vista under bootcamp and having to manually override fan control?
     
    tomcom2k, Jul 20, 2009
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    Vista is noticably warmer than OS X on the new MBPs, and you might have to overwrite the default fan controls if you plan to run intensive apps in Windows while using the laptop on your lap.

    Otherwise, the heat is barable, and it does not become so warm that it causes damage to the laptop itself.
     
    Budding, Jul 20, 2009
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    Completely agree with the above 2 posts, however sometimes Lubbo Fan Control doesn't work...at least for me anyway.

    So an alternative to this, is to turn up Leopard, and run SMC Fan Control, set at whatever speed you need and then reboot into Windows.

    SMC:

    http://www.eidac.de/?p=134
     
    irishhenshin, Jul 20, 2009
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  5. Tinderbox (UK)

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    irishhenshin , just wanted to ask how many partitions did you uMacbook Pro have when you bought it, does it have a recovery partition.

    Should have my uMacbook Pro 17" tomorrow :rolleyes:
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Jul 20, 2009
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  6. irishhenshin

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    Just the 1, labeled 'Mactintosh HD'. I really love the Disc utility on the Mac.

    Yay hopefully you will get it tomorrow :)
     
    irishhenshin, Jul 20, 2009
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  7. Luke1708

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    i have 2. one for my mac os x and one for my bootcamp. i dont have any recovery partition as os x has never crashed on me since november 2008.
     
    Luke1708, Jul 20, 2009
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  8. irishhenshin

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    Yeah I have 2 now, the 2nd for Vista.
     
    irishhenshin, Jul 20, 2009
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  9. Luke1708

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    so you just installed vista? W7 rc is better and more stable IMHO.
     
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  10. irishhenshin

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    I probably should have gone with Win7 but to be honest its only for games and possibly some programming when I get back to college, I literally need nothing else out of Windows, Mac OS X handles everything else perfectly for me now.
     
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    This is my only main concern about getting a mac too.

    But for the windows side, I would only be using my blackberry sync thing, and some GRE test study programs on the windows side. I wonder if it will get hot. The rest i could just use osx
     
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    windows will definitely make it get hot but not to the point of damaging the laptop. the fans will kick in and bring down the temps as soon as it reaches 70's degrees celcius.
     
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    It will still get hot even just web browsing and running some programs?
     
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  14. irishhenshin

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    Well not too out, it's very cold here at the moment and I'm on firefox and watching Scrubs. But sometimes when I've been listening to music and on firefox it goes up to around 55-60 or more. Especially depends on the site, a heavy website will increase the heat.
     
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    Does XP run hot as it has the best support in bootcamp also has anybody tried notebook hardware control in XP.
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Jul 20, 2009
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    if thats all your gonna do, you don't need bootcamp.. that would be a waste.... try something like Crossover, or run Windows in a virtual machine. In a VM you are still in OSX, none of the problems mentioned in this thread would effect you, and you could have the VM hiding Windows so you just saw your Win apps running next to your OSX apps.
     
    doh123, Jul 21, 2009
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    I found that XP runs much cooler than Win7 in bootcamp.
     
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  18. Tinderbox (UK)

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    I only have 30 processes in XP device manager, In Vista i have 50+
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Jul 21, 2009
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  19. Luke1708

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    Mine goes in the upper 60's when web browsing and lower 80's while gaming.
     
    Luke1708, Jul 21, 2009
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  20. Luke1708

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    Its the opposite for me!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
     
    Luke1708, Jul 21, 2009
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