[geeks] PowerBook G4 - what is 'hot'

[Brian Dunbar]

On Jan 26, 2004, at 11:19 AM, Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 11:11:58AM -0600, Brian Dunbar wrote:
>> I got used to this level of warmth from my old Dell laptop ... Is this
>> normal for a PowerBook?  Perhaps it's attempting to compensate for the
>> sub-zero weather we're having in Wisconsin right now ...
>
> Tip:  (at least it works on my G4 tower)
>
> Install the CHUD tools from Apple, then go into the system preferences,
> CHUD, and click "nap".  I see a 15-20degreeC temperature difference
> (lower) when I run my G4 CPUs in "nap" mode (e.g., they go to sleep 
> when
> idle) and have not had any problems in over a month when doing this.
>
> Bill

Installed and 'nap' is checked.  I did tell the system to put itself to 
sleep after an hour of inactivity - the thing was set to run flat out 
all the time ....

brian