Re: [sc-dev] New PowerBooks, SC and CPU... ick...

[Joshua Parmenter <joshp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks James... but the CHUD tools download mentioned there doesn't  
appear to include the CPU manager.

Here is the article from Apple... the relevant stuff is at the  
bottom... still looking around to see if there is a way to bypass  
this mode.

http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Hardware/Developer_Notes/ 
Macintosh_CPUs-G4/15inchPowerBookG4/1Overview/ 
chapter_2_section_6.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40003165-CH205-TPXREF109

Josh

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On Jan 5, 2006, at 1:31 PM, James Harkins wrote:

> This, maybe?
>
> http://www.bigbluelounge.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=27534
>
> hjh
>
> On 1/5/06, Joshua Parmenter <joshp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Basically, the ability to control the processor speed is gone on the
> > new models. On the older one's you could open Energy Saver and tell
> > the computer to always run at the top CPU speed. This has
> > disappeared, and the new machines "automatically" adjust the CPU
> > speed for CPU load. Problem is, this isn't very speedy (in SC terms
> > at least). So, code that used to run at about a stable 40% on my old
> > PB, now runs at 60% with HUGE spikes on the new one.
>
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