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    Powering down Wifi radio in Windows? General Stability? Folding @ Home?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Wolfpup, Dec 9, 2008.

  1. Wolfpup

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    I'm being driven nuts by this whole notebook decision thing...

    Anyway, I've been kind of torn between three systems, Sony's AW, the Macbook Pro, and an Asus n80nv.

    I was about set on the AW, when I found out not only Gametap won't work with 64-bit Windows-but neither will Palm Desktop...so I'm kind of back to square 1. A Macbook Pro should be easy to get Windows installed on.

    But...can you actually get the Wifi radio powered off under Windows? Anyone really know? There's no hardware switch.

    And is it stable in Windows? I've heard of all kinds of issues with the new Nvidia chipset and Windows...

    And then last, how's it seem to hold up to running the CPUs at 100% all time time (from Folding @ Home or the like)? A couple of generations back, the system got really loud...though that doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't going to last.

    Then too I'm hearing a lot of systems are crashing if you really push the CPU or GPU (didn't know that until a few minutes ago in that one thread).
     
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  2. StrongerThanAll

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    yeah, press windows key + x
     
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    Yeah, but does that actually power it down, or just make Windows ignore it?
     
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    im pretty sure it powers it down, what do u mean by ignore?
     
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    Well, it may be that the OS just ignore the radio, but doesn't actually power it down. It would be the same difference as far as the OS goes, but not in terms of battery life, interference, etc.
     
    Wolfpup, Dec 10, 2008
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