[DM-MUG] Leopard runs hotter?

[Bryan Baker]

Well, if you only let it run for ~10 min it probably didn't have time  
to finish it's first full backup. The problem is, that it needs a  
place to start, so it needs a FULL backup of the system - that's  
everything. I'd be surprised if it took less than 10. Once this is  
done once, most of what it does is make copies of anything that  
changed since the last one, so those should be almost unnoticeable.  
That's the theory. This is being typed by someone who has a shrink- 
wrapped copy of Leopard on his desk, not someone who's already  
running it, but I remember having to walk away from in-progress Tiger  
first boots because the dang indexing was taking hours.

It's also possible that your "radar" is up, and that while it is  
currently "hotter" over time the power consumption will decrease as  
the system finishes all the stuff it's doing behind the scenes in the  
background.



On Nov 2, 2007, at 11:04 AM, Roses Derise wrote:
> Also 109.99 at macmall with rebate for shipping.
>
> So far, I feel regret that I bought Leopard. A lot of little things  
> don't
> seem to work well--such as some (but not all) the little yellow memory
> strips (such as the ones that pop up, say, account numbers), and my  
> printer
> drive not loading properly on start-up. As some of you have said, I  
> don't
> like the folders and even though I am not a fan of dark colors, I  
> do seem to
> have adapted to the black dock and I do feel some admiration for  
> the sleek
> designing. I like the stationary in Mail and I love the Spaces  
> feature and
> other things that someone here wrote was just cosmetic stuff, which  
> I agree.
>
> My biggest complaint, and for me its a big deal, is that I suspect  
> that on
> my Macbook Pro where my hands on directly on the machine, Leopard runs
> hotter than Tiger.
>
> I bought Leopard primarily because of Time Machine. As a writer,  
> even ten
> minutes of lost work can be major, like an artist losing carefully  
> laid down
> brush strokes. But within a few minutes of using it, I unplugged it,
> realizing that that I'd have been smarter to take the time to use a  
> $20
> flash drive every so often because, with Time Machine running, the  
> computer
> heats up a lot more, driving me nuts when I am trying to focus on  
> creative
> work with that irritating noise of the fan running and from the  
> heat on my
> palms.
>
> I'm sure Apple will come along with fixes for the bugs and that  
> over time
> I'll adapt to the changes, but as someone who is not computer savvy  
> and can
> only review from a superficial level, at this point, I can't say  
> getting
> Leopard was worth the price.
>
> Roses
>
>
>
>
> On 11/2/07 10:19 AM, "Russ & Marilyn Carlson" <marruss at crosspaths.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't know if anyone is interested given the recent reports but
>> Leopard is on sale at CompUSA for the next two days Friday and
>> Saturday.  It is selling for $109.99 a $20.00 reduction.  Des Moines
>> Register Nov. 2  page 3A.
>>
>> Russ
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