Macbook Pro helps Core i7 hit 100 Degrees

PC Authority ^ | 22 April 2010 | Zara Baxter , John Gillooly

[cabojoe]

“A similar situation occurred in OS X. We’ve included the graph showing the heat output from the MacBook Pro’s sensors below. In it the CPU peaks at 101 degrees...”
http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/172791,macbook-pro-helps-core-i7-hit-100-degrees.aspx

[Star Traveler]

That’s not the reports I’ve seen from actual Mac users who peg the CPU out at 100% for hours on end...

In addition to that, I would still not recommend that any Mac user run their computer at 100% of the CPU with Windows, because it does not have the kind of management that Mac OS X has of its own designed hardware. I would only run the Mac at 100% of CPU with the Mac OS X because I wouldn’t trust Windows to do it good enough ... :-)

[cabojoe]

Well I don’t seem to have a thermal problem on either of my quad i7’s with Windows. Like I said, I hope this is an isolated event. Nice chatting with you.

[Star Traveler]

We’ll see soon enough if it’s isolated or not. I’m guessing it’s no problem.

[AZLiberty]

During normal use, these extremes might never be reached. (Unless you're trying to watch an Adobe Flash video. :-)

Although I don't think I could boil water with my MacBook, it does get very warm when running Flash. Flash is very power hungry on Macs -- I'm not surprised Apple nixed it for the iPad.

[Swordmaker]

Turns out the Case is NOT exactly as reported...

The Hot MacBook Pro isn't quite so thermally hot at the outside of the case after all... and not as hot compared the the PC either which was not running the same processor....

It looks as if PC Advisor may have "Cooked" things up a little bit... or at least mis-interpreted things because they wanted things to not look so good.

[SunkenCiv]

These tests should have been conducted while streaming “C’mon baby, light my fire...”