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    Strange Smell from MBP

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by CanadianDude, Mar 20, 2008.

  1. CanadianDude

    CanadianDude Notebook Deity

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    Ok so when I use windows xp in bootcamp, I get this smell, it smells like electronic burning, it's hard to explain.

    I know it is coming from the MBP but I don't know if its bad or not because temps are normal.
     
    CanadianDude, Mar 20, 2008
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  2. Crimsonman

    Crimsonman Ex NBR member :cry:

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    Well... the air could be burning the dust in your fan...
     
    Crimsonman, Mar 20, 2008
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  3. scooberdoober

    scooberdoober Penguins FTW!

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    That's what you get for putting M$ in an Apple!

    Evil Empire M$ + Virtuous Apple = Burning computer

    No two ways about it.

    J/k! :p


    All kidding aside, smelling something burning sounds serious to me. I think you should contact Apple right away. Further use of your system may be causing damage.
     
    scooberdoober, Mar 20, 2008
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  4. r0k

    r0k Notebook Evangelist

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    I have heard that running windows can make your mac run hot. Mac OS X is built on Unix. Unix was designed to sit there doing nothing until a real need arises. Windows runs the pixel pump, the registry pump and the message pump full out 24x7. I look at my system in the Dashboard and Firefox is sitting at 12 percent and everything else is down in the single digits. I look at process in windows and the "system idle process" is eating up 80+ percent of the cpu a lot of the time. What exactly is it doing? Who knows. But if you sit and watch the registry using developer tools, it's being touched 14,000 times a second. When your hands are in your lap and you aren't doing a thing it's being hammered 14,000 times a second.

    I used to run folding@home on all my cpu's. I noticed they started running ever hotter than they were before. On the windows boxes it wasn't that noticeable but on the Linux boxes it was a huge difference. All this supports what I have heard that running Windows on a Mac will make the thing run hotter. A lot hotter.
     
    r0k, Mar 20, 2008
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  5. gengerald

    gengerald Technofile Extraordinaire

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    Maybe a quick shot of compressed air on your components would help get rid of any dust.
     
    gengerald, Mar 20, 2008
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