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    Undervolting a mac?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Samiur, Sep 29, 2008.

  1. Samiur

    Samiur Notebook Enthusiast

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    Anyone know is this possible?? My wife has a 13.3 macbook and I was wondering if it is even possible to do anything like this with a mac like it is my pc.

    Thanks
     
    Samiur, Sep 29, 2008
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  2. Xirurg

    Xirurg ORLY???

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    not possible AFAIK
     
    Xirurg, Sep 29, 2008
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    liuman51086 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Totally possible. But your only option right now is Coolbook which you have to pay $10 for. http://www.coolbook.se/CoolBook.html

    It works really well as me and many other people have used it.
     
    liuman51086, Sep 29, 2008
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  4. Samiur

    Samiur Notebook Enthusiast

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    Ok..cool...is it easy to use?? I just did my first undervolt on a pc yesterday and it is working great. Everything I need to do the stress test and everything included on the Coolbook? Do i need to use smcfancontrol program too?

    Thanks for you help in this.
     
    Samiur, Sep 29, 2008
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  5. Robgunn

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    Coolbook is the only option, but I think it still doesn't have 100% support for the latest stuff.

    It'd be sweet if someone made an open source alternative to coolbook and kept it up to date with the latest releases. For tech savy people, undervolting is a no-brainer when you aren't going to overclock (which people rarely do with notebook cpus anyway).
     
    Robgunn, Sep 30, 2008
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  6. Samiur

    Samiur Notebook Enthusiast

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    Heh...if I was smart enough to do it I would sure try...however programming is not my strong point. lol
     
    Samiur, Oct 2, 2008
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