Heat

[athos]

When I run my mac alone, it's a nice cool machine. As soon as I have Parallels running for any amount of time, it gets REALLY warm. Is this what is going to happen forever, or are drivers coming that will make the power management be a bit less consuming?

 

[dkp]

When I run my mac alone, it's a nice cool machine. As soon as I have Parallels running for any amount of time, it gets REALLY warm. Is this what is going to happen forever, or are drivers coming that will make the power management be a bit less consuming?

Apple recently released a firmware upgrade that solved the problem of heat for my MacBook Pro. The temperature was always above 70'C and now it's down below 35'C all the time. You didn't say what your machine was, but if the upgrade is appropriate it may help. It did not help everyone with heat problems.

When I run a VM I suspend it when not needed. I frequently shut down Parallels, too, if I won't be using the VM for long periods of time. It starts back up from suspension much faster than from a cold VM boot, and all my apps are right where I left them.

dp

 

[athos]

Well, I need to run it most of the day, so suspend/resume isn't an option for me. As I said, when I run as just pure mac, no heat, when I run parallels, tons of heat, just as when I run XP in the bootcamp segment -- it's as if XP doesn't know how to spin down on this system yet.