Ok, I read further. Under Boot Camp, some adjustment is made, but the CPU still runs hotter and battery lasts shorter than under OSX. Equivalent drivers under Ubuntu don't lower the voltages, so damage can occur.
--Don On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:35 PM, Don Ellis <[email protected]> wrote: > So, what does this do to running WindBlows under Boot Camp? > > I'm happy running all these others in a VM, but I occasionally have to > reboot into WinDOS when the VM is missing just a little bit of authenticity > required by some (very rare) programs. > > Maybe the Boot Camp extensions adjust Windoze so it meets the OS > requirements? > > --Don Ellis > > > On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Mike B. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Is this FUD? or not? >> >> http://th-th.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=58812459188&topic=16464 >> >> "It's not so much 'will', but the risk of damage to the CPU is documented, >> and the more modern the CPU, the higher the risk. >> >> "The reason is fairly technical, but what it boils own to is that the >> higher the voltages feeding the CPU, the greater chance there is of >> electrons "jumping the rails" and causing incorrect logic values, and >> instead of these voltages being looked after by the BIOS chips on the >> motherboard, they are handled directly by the operating system. OSX knows >> how to do this, Ubuntu does not. >> >> "Technical background and explanation:...." >> >> -- >> Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) >> Main page: http://www.cwelug.org >> To post: [email protected] >> To subscribe: [email protected] >> To unsubscribe: [email protected] >> More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > > > -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
