It's an iMac with 2.66 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I suppose there must be a fan in it, but I can't hear it. Not like my old Toshiba laptop, which positively roars whenever you ask it to do something more than wink the cursor.
You think of the Mac as an overpriced toy for people who basically can't stand technology and who want something which reads their minds and does the commonsense thing. But it's a lean, mean clean machine which does the serious work I make it do. I haven't actually made it groan under the strain yet. You expect your heroes to pant a little when they're running a marathon. I'm sorry if I've been slandering its chipset. The IT industry must hate Macs --they make computing seem so simple. > Harvest the algae; besides, they are easy to get rid of in small enclosed > systems, and besides, they need light. That's what I'd have said. I can't think what their problem was. Mind you, it was back in the days when I'd go over to IBM Kingston and they'd be heating the office at the same time as air-conditioning it. And there were no switches for the lights. Do you suppose the alga had evolved to eat photons emitted by hot silicon? Another of these sunlight-free ecosystems. But just a confounded nuisance to a field engineer. I hope IBM has kept a sample, though. Good for feeding astronauts on long spaceflights. That's if they'd thrive on green slime. Ian On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 5:07 PM, DIETER ENSSLEN <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Ian > > What kind of Mac? The Mac Pro when last I looked, you can order with 8 fast > cores. So you suggest there are 7 cores waiting around? > > My one generation old MacBook Pro gets really quite warm and it makes me wait > a while it tidies up my RAW astronomy pictures, and the fan is going all the > time. > > The gamers and the hobbyists still overclock everything, and they still use > water cooling, I am not sure whether any use refrigeration, electronic or > mechanical. I certainly never heard of them using liquid nitrogen, helium or > such as the astronomers use. > > Harvest the algae; besides, they are easy to get rid of in small enclosed > systems, and besides, they need light. > > Dieter > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
