Fans

Hey everybody

I have a 15" PB Al, 1.5 GHz - 10.4 Tiger

Whenever I am heavily using my PB, it will get extremely hot. The fans never speed up. I can hear them working if I listen closely, but the speed never adjusts.

I put in the test CD that came with my Mac. When it went to test the fans, they sped up and sounded like a turbine engine.

Could there be a setting that I am not seeing? Does OS X Tiger not have good fan support?

Thanks!
-Equin

my fans never get that loud either, i dont think you need to worry. IF they needed to come on, they would. the laptops have a setting where the shut down if they get too hot, so as long as that didnt happen, you dont need to worry

I suppose. Though when I play games, etc, the bottom of the laptop gets hot enough to burn your hand within a second, easily 200 degrees.

are you talking 200 fahrenheit or celsius

I dont think its 200 more like 115-120 80 degrees after 120 is a big change. after living in arizona for my whole life and having to touch hot concrete thats around 180 degrees the hottest my powerbook has gotten playing games is no where near 180 degrees.

My fans have come on 2 times in two years running Panther, after installing Tiger, my fans came on 4 times in a hour, needless to say Tiger to me was no biggy, put Panther back on. My fans haven't came on since.. Tiger isn't worth it in my opinion. I have a 17in.PB

Well it is a powerbook, and the aluminum chasis makes it act like a big heatsink.

Well it is a powerbook, and the aluminum chasis makes it act like a big heatsink.
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I didn't mean Tiger wasn't a good OS, I meant for me and my PB