Windows 7 runs hot on a Mac too?! I installed Windows 7 on my boot camp partition on my MacBook Pro and I was blown away when I found out that Windows runs hot on Apple products as well.? At first, I thought it was my XPS that was over reacting to the 64 bit software, but it was not alone…
After installing the 64 bit version of Windows 7 Professional, I expected some heat because of the long installation process, but even after I left the machine off all night and booted it up in the morning to Windows 7…within 20 minutes of just general use and browsing to set up my machine, the computer already started to heat up.
Before I hear any of the critics complain that I did not install the drivers…believe me, I checked to make sure they were updated including the newest release of graphics drivers for Windows 7 64 bit from nVidia.
To my surprise, the heat really did start to annoy me after I got use to the cool operation of OS X.? If you have a laptop, and like keeping it on your lap, I’m sure you understand my frustration with a computer that runs hot or even warm for that matter.
After using Windows 7 on the Mac, I became instantaneously frustrated with the lack of support for the swipes from the multi touch and the slower process of constant clicks to navigate back and forth.? I felt like I was slower, more sluggish and as odd as it sounds…it really wasn’t as much fun!
The widgets on the side looked boring, plain and sad and I preferred them to be hidden until I called upon them but that task was not as simple as it would be on my MacBook with the simple button built into the keyboard.
Call me crazy, maybe I’m sick, but I’m beginning to see some huge advantages in my MacBook that my Windows laptop could not beat or even come close to.
Am I being blind to something?? What am I missing?? Tell me guys, what am I overlooking, what should I try in Windows that I can’t in a Mac which gives it the huge advantage that I’m starting to discover in my Mac?? Please, quick, I might decide to switch over.
3 Responses
Michael Natale
September 24th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
1Sorry man, can’t help you. I make my living building and supporting Windows networks and I switched over at home back in 2003. Never looked back.
David Dawson
September 28th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
2That’s odd that it’s running so hot. Is the processor just that busy? I haven’t had time with Windows 7 yet so can’t speculate too much. I wonder if graphics processing is causing the heat.
Ditto on what Michael said, though. I’ve supported Windows networks for almost 15 years and switched to Mac 3 years ago. A year ago my wife needed a laptop as well so we bought another. Neither Windows 7 nor the new version of Office will bring me back to Windows. I have to use IE and .Net apps for a few things at work but for that I use a Terminal Server.
Ken Dine
September 28th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
3Macs tend to be very quiet machines, which with newer Macs is often achieved by using more (and smaller) variable speed fans that the system is constantly adjusting (using heat sensors) to run at the slowest speed necessary to keep the system within set temperature parameters.
Since a MacBook wasn’t designed to work with W-7, it wouldn’t surprise me that W-7 can’t control these internal fans as well as OS-X can do.
On a different matter, in an earlier post you had complained that with W-7 it was easier to close an app just by closing all of the app’s open windows. HOWEVER, with OS-X you just need to click on the app’s icon in your Dock and choose “Quit” to close the app (and all open windows.)
With W-7 if you have more than one open window, then you could again click on the app’s icon in the W-7 Dock and choose “Close all windows” to do the same thing (i.e., quit the app). So, no real need to X out multiple windows in W-7 to quit an app.
The only real difference when closing an app in these two systems is what the menu says when clicking on the app’s Dock icon ? either just “QUIT” (w/ OS-X), or “Close all windows” w/ W-7, so hardly a big deal one way or the other. Of course, when clicking on “QUIT” it’s a tad more obvious what you want to do.
MULTI-FINGER TRACKPADS. I have W-7 on a desktop, but it was my understanding that W-7 supports multi-finger trackpads?
No doubt about it, these multi-finger gesture trackpads are the wave of the future (and already here on Mac laptops), so I can’t understand why so many PC manufacturers are dragging their feet on this? Just to save a few bucks?
Ken
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