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    Apple Releases Update to Santa Rosa Macbook Pro

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Nicholie, Jun 29, 2007.

  1. Nicholie

    Nicholie Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    Available here.


    While Apple keeps a tight lip on the contents of the update, simply stating the old "bug fixes" jargon, analysis of the update by Macrumors.com has shown some improvments to the graphics structure, a new nVidia driver, and some OpenGL improvements.


    woohoo.
     
    Nicholie, Jun 29, 2007
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    pinwanger Notebook Consultant

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    Some ppl also say the laptop seems to be running cooler, can anyone confirm that? They also speculate that the patch might have under clocked the GPU to lower temperature.
     
    pinwanger, Jun 29, 2007
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  3. Nicholie

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    I'll let you know soon.
     
    Nicholie, Jun 29, 2007
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  4. pinwanger

    pinwanger Notebook Consultant

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    sweet thx a lot, Mac Rumors also saying they might have undervolted the CPU to make it run cooler...dunno how would you confirm that =/
     
    pinwanger, Jun 29, 2007
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  5. thegsrguy

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    A progam like CPU-Z would show the voltage.
     
    thegsrguy, Jun 29, 2007
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  6. Nicholie

    Nicholie Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    Sadly i haven't found a suitable Mac alternative or PCWizard. CPUID makes some great stuff though, I use em all the time on my windows equipped machines.
     
    Nicholie, Jun 29, 2007
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  7. zeppelin68

    zeppelin68 Notebook Guru

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    lol please no underclocking apple.
     
    zeppelin68, Jun 29, 2007
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  8. PR0DiGY

    PR0DiGY Notebook Consultant

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    Sweet, dad just got granted to work at some major residential tower building whatever thingo, which means I get my laptop sometime this week!!!!!
     
    PR0DiGY, Jun 29, 2007
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  9. nycfly89

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    i just ordered mine a couple of days ago. maybe they will include this update?
     
    nycfly89, Jun 29, 2007
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  10. purcell429

    purcell429 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Core duo temp is going all wacky on me now....

    06/28/2007 03:10 : 10:33 - 17% - 1.83GHz - 47∞C
    06/29/2007 01:40 : 1:53 - 10.3% - 1.33GHz - 47∞C
    06/29/2007 01:41 : 1:53 - 14.8% - 1.83GHz - 45∞C
    06/29/2007 01:41 : 1:53 - 14.8% - 1.83GHz - 45∞C
    06/29/2007 01:58 : 2:10 - 10.8% - 1.33GHz - 45∞C
    06/29/2007 01:58 : 2:11 - 8.4% - 1.83GHz - 44∞C
    06/29/2007 01:58 : 2:11 - 8.4% - 1.83GHz - 44∞C
    06/29/2007 01:58 : 2:11 - 8.4% - 1.83GHz - 44∞C
    06/29/2007 02:01 : 2:13 - 14.8% - 1.83GHz - 45∞C
    06/29/2007 02:01 : 2:13 - 14.8% - 1.83GHz - 45∞C
    06/29/2007 02:02 : 2:14 - 15.8% - 1.83GHz - 44∞C
    06/29/2007 02:02 : 2:14 - 15.8% - 1.83GHz - 44∞C
    06/29/2007 02:02 : 2:14 - 21% - 1.83GHz - 42∞C
    06/29/2007 02:02 : 2:14 - 11.8% - 1.83GHz - 43∞C
    06/29/2007 02:05 : 2:17 - 7.4% - 1.33GHz - 40∞C
    06/29/2007 02:05 : 2:17 - 7.4% - 1.33GHz - 40∞C

    I've been playing with core duo temp, the new update is messing with that program anyway...It's now displaying temps 5 degrees cooler than smcfancontrol does, and it also seems to randomly underclock the cpu...though not with any regularity.

    Running cooler? Depends on which of my 3 programs that register temperature you believe. Looks like a few degrees though. Mid ~40s with baseline fan speed of 3000 rpm. Underclocking? Looks like it.
     
    purcell429, Jun 29, 2007
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  11. PR0DiGY

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    Probably underclocks when your not doing much on it.
     
    PR0DiGY, Jun 29, 2007
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    seems to run a bit cooler.
     
    stjs7857, Jun 29, 2007
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  13. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

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    Can some body run some benchmarks? Hopefully if they did underclock the GPU then it is dynamic and if the GPU is being stressed the clock returns to normal. Also is the underclocking being done by firmware or by software driver in OSX? Will it effect windows clocks?
     
    wave, Jun 29, 2007
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  14. Phritz

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    Yeah, the underclock is worrying, in addition is fine when plugged in under stress?
     
    Phritz, Jun 29, 2007
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