Wow, Never recorded a DVD on this thing before but...

... damn was I surprised to find out how hot it is!!!! Didn't think it would heat up my CPU and GPU more than gaming would.

Scared me when I saw the temps usually when I burn discs I just burn files, instead of making an actual Movie DVD. Didn't realize how much it needed the CPU for this.

 

wow! gotta start burning those movies in the freezer now eh!

 

I'll do one better, and move to Alaska.

 

Well you are using a laser... You are litterally burning a disc and even on a destop pc the cd drive gets warm. Eather way yours is toasty warm.

Your latop= hotplate

 

Funny thing is that everything but the DVD drive is really hot

 

I'm wondering why the gpu gets so hot. Or is it that hot normally. I have a macbook not a macbook pro so i don't know. I know you can encode videos with a gpu on windows based computers which would make the gpu hot. But besides from that and gaming, what else can heat up a gpu.

 

Nah, it's not normally that hot. Usually around the 60s when plugged in and idling. Only thing that makes sense would be Toast was using it for recording... Watchiing videos can heat up a GPU a lot as well.

 

Well, it's not called "cooling a DVD" now is it?

 

Good point xD

 

I'm not exactly sure how the internals are set up in the MBP but the GPU and CPU could share a heatsink. If the CPU is really heating up, some of that heat might get picked up by the GPU's temp diode.

Which reminds me, someone needs to write a good undervolting app for OS X.

 

To be honest if I can avoid burning anything on my MBP I do. Its not just the heat but having to keep the thing perfectly still while burning or lose a disk and the time taken to do it not to mention the butching of my batterys runtime means if your a mate of mine and you want something from my lappy you better splash on some flash memory or bring an external HDD with you.

 

It's called Coolbook.

http://coolbook.se/CoolBook.html

Haven't personally used it so I can't really comment on the program. I'd be interested to know if it plays nice with iStat, since Coolbook also monitors sensors, and I wonder how many different sensor monitoring programs you can have running at once.

 

I wondering, since OS X doesnt come with a burning software, or at least none that i am aware of, what do you use to burn your CDs?

 

OS X itself can burn software, you can use iTunes for music CDs, iDVD for movies and Finder can burn data CD/DVDs, etc. Its not too bad, but its nothing like a dedicated application of course, like Toast.

 

oh ok thank sam for teh quick reply

 

Coolbook doesn't look very good to me. It says it doesn't fully support LED Santa Rosa MBPs and no built-in cpu testing.

It'd be nice to have something like notebook hardware control lite for OS X. It'd be really sweet if iStat Pro could do something like this. I'd be happy to pay for that.

 

I thought they had a separate burn-in program before. I'm not sure if they've integrated it into version 2 or if they've gotten rid of it. They do update the software pretty regularly (like 6 updates in the last year), but I'm not sure what's talking them so long with the Santa Rosa support.