Sheer El-Showk schrieb: > Hi Gimli (and others), > > I'm about to put my V2 MBP on an online marketplace to try and sell > it. I'm considering replacing it with an MBP V3 or maybe something > else (like an MB or just some other more linux-friendly laptop).
I recommend to wait at least till end of the month to seen, how good the
nvidia support really is and what influence this has on the heat and
battery life issues...
> Can you comment a little more on how linux runs on the V3 MBP? Do the
> fans still whir up all the time?
If the support for the Nvida power savings capabilites are better, I think
it won't. My experience with the fans are the following:
During the winter (in Germany), my fans rotate at about 2000 RPM (like in
MacOSX most of the time). Now, in the summer the average temperture is
at least 10 degrees higher. So my fans now rotate at 3000 RPM most of the
time.
I think the problem are the unusable power savings mechanisms of the
ATI graphics card (and maybe the unoptimized power saving of the CPU,
i.e. kernel drivers, USB, etc...) so the average CPU/GPU temperature is
higher and the fans need to transport more heat out of the box...
> Are there other driver issues that
> don't exist on the V2? Can you suspend? The more info the better. I
> think you probably know all the relevant issues.
Have you compared the output of 'lspci' and 'lsusb'? Is the only
difference the graphics card?
> ...and the fact that, even in OS X, if you start
> doing any real compiling or anything serious your quiet little angel
> turns into an airplane.
Some other laptops are much louder! But if you take on the big and heavy
ones, these may be quieter...
> If anyone has recommendations for a similar
> but better and more linux friendly laptop I'd like to hear it (offline
> if you don't think its relevant to this list).
Not really. I think the MacBook has one of the best combinations of hardware
parts...
Regards
Sven
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