[DM-MUG] Leopard runs hotter?

[Darcy Baston]

Run Activity Monitor, sort the list by cpu %, and see if there's  
something running that you're not aware of.

Darcy

On Nov 3, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Roses Derise wrote:

> After getting our feedback, I re-plugged in the external hard drive  
> and left
> it on all night so I could test it again. When I opened it up in this
> morning about 8:30, the computer was cool to touch but the fan started
> running immediately, a sound which is to me like fingernails on  
> chalkboards,
> and which I had solved on Tiger with the aid of an air desk and smc  
> fan
> control. The heat would still get bad and the fan would come on when  
> the
> computer heated up after a long day of working and/or gaming or  
> loading up a
> big program or had a lot of programs open at the same time. Other  
> than those
> times the heat was acceptable and the fan was blessedly silent.
>
> This morning, I let it run for a while to see if it was just a
> waking/warming up thing but the fan didn't shut off so about a half- 
> hour
> later I unplugged the external hard drive to shut off time machine.  
> Even so,
> the fan has continued to run continuously for the last nearly three  
> hours,
> which says that the fan/heat is not from Time Machine, so I was  
> wrong on
> that.  I have no open programs except Microsoft Word and Entourage   
> The temp
> is at 145 degrees and the temp record since I got Leopard is overall  
> higher
> so the only thing I can conclude is that Leopard runs hotter.
>
> I then went to Apple on-line support for Leopard and found others were
> complaining of the same issue--heat and noise. If any of you have  
> any fixes
> for this, I (and presumably those at the apple support place (key  
> words
> leopard runs hot) would really appreciate it. Otherwise, I plan to  
> uninstall
> it and go back to Tiger.