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Hot CPU? Three Ways to Keep Your Cool

Written on July 30, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 23 people have commented

For a product as cool as the MacBook Pro, it sure does get hot. Too hot, sometimes. I’ve had many laptops in my time, and I’d never go back to plastic IBM compatibles as long as Apple keeps churning out these beautiful aluminum machines. But heat dissipation is a real problem for anyone who makes [...]

NVIDIA GPUs to Take On More in Snow Leopard, Improve Efficiency

Written on April 27, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 1 person has commented

Generally speaking, if your not using your Apple computer for graphics-intensive purposes, that NVIDIA GPU that you have if you bought your computer recently isn’t doing much. Definitely not earning its keep, you might say. In fact, you could think of it like your unemployed cousin who crashes on your couch and expects to be [...]

Leopard’s Parental Controls a possible source of resource hogging?

Written on November 01, 2007 by Josh Pigford and 28 people have commented

Jon Buys wrote in letting me know of a little issue he’s having with the new Parental Controls feature of Leopard.
He writes in:
I enabled the Parental Controls on my new Leopard install, and after letting my kids play Frozen Bubble and browse to Playhouse Disney for an hour or so I found that the daemon [...]