Today i was - again - surprised by my 14" iBook, especially by the temperatures it develops. I was trying to install the newest possible version of Eclipse for Tiger (3.8.1) and had problems downloading it because the download process in TFF took about 80% of CPU. Then the iBook didn't react to anything else. As with Safari/Webkit I can't download anything encrypted, I thought "why not use curl or wget?" Only problem: TSL/SSL and curl on Tiger.
Solution: I installed Tigerbrew, downloaded an compiled wget.
Problem there: make depend and make test really need a long time for every dependency and CPU is constantly at 100% during compilation. 100% means a lot of heat. In theory. As many times before I wonder what Apple did right with the iBooks, especially in 2004. As a precaution I set the CPU-trigger in G4FanControl to 54°C. Now comes the "cool" part: the max temp the iBook's CPU reached was 56°C with the single small fan running at 47xxrpm (8108rpm max). Thats roughly half of what is possible. Most of the time with daily usage like web browsing (TFF), listening to music (Spotify or internet radio), Word or Excel open and GUI-less C coding the fan hardly ever turns on!
Now compare these results to other G4s! (From my experience AiBooks are mobile heaters, the TiBooks are as loud as a cheap vacuum cleaner, eMacs can sound like a starting Jumbojet and the G4 towers are well known for not being airflow optimized. I honestly don't know how the iMacs and Cubes behave.
The question coming to my mind is: why is this (cheap looking) heavy plastic monster with a single small fan as well quiet as cool under heavy duty?
As for the poll: I tried to differentiate it as much as possible, you are welcome to comment more precisely
Solution: I installed Tigerbrew, downloaded an compiled wget.
Problem there: make depend and make test really need a long time for every dependency and CPU is constantly at 100% during compilation. 100% means a lot of heat. In theory. As many times before I wonder what Apple did right with the iBooks, especially in 2004. As a precaution I set the CPU-trigger in G4FanControl to 54°C. Now comes the "cool" part: the max temp the iBook's CPU reached was 56°C with the single small fan running at 47xxrpm (8108rpm max). Thats roughly half of what is possible. Most of the time with daily usage like web browsing (TFF), listening to music (Spotify or internet radio), Word or Excel open and GUI-less C coding the fan hardly ever turns on!
Now compare these results to other G4s! (From my experience AiBooks are mobile heaters, the TiBooks are as loud as a cheap vacuum cleaner, eMacs can sound like a starting Jumbojet and the G4 towers are well known for not being airflow optimized. I honestly don't know how the iMacs and Cubes behave.
The question coming to my mind is: why is this (cheap looking) heavy plastic monster with a single small fan as well quiet as cool under heavy duty?
As for the poll: I tried to differentiate it as much as possible, you are welcome to comment more precisely