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Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / April 2008Cinema display and loud PowerBook
I just got an Apple 20-inch Cinema Display to hook up to my 12-inch PowerBook (1.5 GHz processor, 1.25 GB SDRAM). I love having the big screen, but I notice that the PowerBook's fans are going almost all the time, which is a little bit of an annoyance. Would a modern-day MacBook Pro behave similarly, or is it just that my three-year-old PowerBook doesn't quite have the muscle to drive this display quietly? Tony Craine <acraine@ameritech.net> schrieb: > I just got an Apple 20-inch Cinema Display to hook up to my 12-inch > PowerBook (1.5 GHz processor, 1.25 GB SDRAM). I love having the big > screen, but I notice that the PowerBook's fans are going almost all the > time, which is a little bit of an annoyance. And the fans are going down when you plug off the display? Greetings Florian In article <CACC23F7-80C5-40D0-9254-4188936A333B%edv@zschocke-berlin.de>, > Tony Craine <acraine@ameritech.net> schrieb: > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Greetings Florian Yes, almost immediately. Tony Craine <acraine@ameritech.net> schrieb: > In article > <CACC23F7-80C5-40D0-9254-4188936A333B%edv@zschocke-berlin.de>, [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Yes, almost immediately. Hm, that is surprising me. You mean just pugging and unplugging and not using any special software on the bigger display? I never made this experience. For the moment I don't have a PowerBook here to test only my Mac Book Pro, not showing any differences with or without my 20" Dell. The Dell display is very comparable to the 20" CD, it uses the same panel with 1650x1080 resolution. I will test the same later with a 15" 1,25 GHz PowerBook and post here. But already now I'm 99% sure that I never had this on any of my Books. Also there is no physical evidence why it should heat up so significant. Florian In article <65FB7498-5784-43B8-8145-027CC7E7E48C%edv@zschocke-berlin.de>, > Hm, that is surprising me. You mean just pugging and unplugging and not using > any special software on the bigger display? Yes. In fact, yesterday I unplugged the display with the fan going full speed, and literally within less than a minute, the fan slowed down and stopped. I've never had the fan cease so suddenly like that before. > I never made this experience. For the moment I don't have a PowerBook here to > test only my Mac Book Pro, not showing any differences with or without my 20" > Dell. Well, that's good news, and it's pretty much what I was hoping to learn by posting my question. I've been about 90 percent sure that I'd be buying a MacBook Pro in the near future, but I was starting to have second thoughts, because I didn't want to have to sit and listen to that whiny fan for hours on end while working with the Cinema Display. I need the big display, but I really want a MacBook Pro, and I hate the glossy iMac screens. But if I had to choose between the whiny fan and the glossy screen, I'd choose the glossy screen and get an iMac instead. |
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