Software suspend rocks (MacBook Pro notes)
I let the battery on the MacBook Pro run completely dry, and when I plugged the power back in, it resumed to my last saved state. I am highly impressed with this technology, as I never did get a chance to try this on my Powerbook itself. Software suspend is cool. When is Suspend2 going to be integrated into the mainline kernel?
OK, back to the MacBook Pro. The keyboard didn’t become usable until after a period of time (I’d say, about a minute). That seemed rather odd. If time permits, I’ll be sure to try and repeat this – has anyone else noticed this though?
The machine runs really, really hot. Really. I put it on my lap and I’m wearing a pair of jeans, and even then the bottom is really burning me. This is so, not good for a laptop. And Apple saying not to put laptops on a lap just seems rather silly. I haven’t updated the firmware yet, so maybe it’ll miraculously cool after that. I can’t imagine this doing good things to the life of a MacBook Pro, to be honest.
Also, there’s a distinct whine. Sure you can’t really hear it with a podcast playing in the background but man, oh man, its there. “Whirrr”. Its annoying. You can’t be expected to leave the MBP on 24/7 and expect to sleep next to it or anything.
I guess all this is handy now that winter is abound.
about the whine and heat, check:
http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=14520
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1864582
firmware should not fix it, it’s badly assembled it seems.
try iLap. I am using it.
beware if you want to have kids. increased heat leads to low sperm counts….
Well, lucky you. I’ve been trying to make suspend2 to work for hours and hours. No luck. I’m using the 2.6.17 kernel just released and the suspend2 patch that goes with it. It suspends, and (kind of) resume, but even though I have access to some functionality, the hibernate process does not come back, and a ps shows 3 hibernate process still running. I’ve tried to stop networking, acpid, bluetooth, to no avail. Tried also from the console of course: same stuff. Any chance you could give a bit more detail on your config? You’re using a macbook PRO, isn’t it?
beware if you want to have kids. increased heat leads to low sperm counts….