Fatal flaw with MacBook Pro's?
Lately, more and more Mac users have with help of the application CoreDuoTemp reported that their MacBook Pro constantly runs at 1000 MHz. Those reports came from several locations, including online forums, comments to the application CoreDuoTemp itself and chat rooms. It has since been reported that the MacBook Pro computers don't dynamically clock themselves when the battery is removed, but instead clock the processor to a static 1000 MHz.
The Intel Core Duo processors have as you might know, a very useful feature that allows them to dynamically clock themselves after the load on your computer. If you simply are browsing the web it may clock itself to 1500 MHz (depending on the topspeed of your CPU) and when playing games it will boost itself to the max clockspeed. This is done to minimize heat and energy consumption. However, this technology seems to have failed on Apple's computers. If your battery is NOT inside your laptop it will stay at 1 GHz no matter what you would do. This will slow down your computer and consequentially you can't make use of the computers' true potential.
Whether this problem is present on all MacBook Pro computers is however still unknown as this problem has recently been discovered. It is also uknown whether the newly released MacBook computers are touched by the same problem since they use the same processors.
I encourage everyone to test their computers with Cinebench to check whether they are affected by the problem and report it here. Remove the battery from your laptop, run all test in Cinebench and then do the same but with the battery inserted. Compare the numbers and see for yourself whether your computer is affected by the problem. You can see my benchmarks at http://imelika.net/Benchmarks/MacBook%20Pro
The Intel Core Duo processors have as you might know, a very useful feature that allows them to dynamically clock themselves after the load on your computer. If you simply are browsing the web it may clock itself to 1500 MHz (depending on the topspeed of your CPU) and when playing games it will boost itself to the max clockspeed. This is done to minimize heat and energy consumption. However, this technology seems to have failed on Apple's computers. If your battery is NOT inside your laptop it will stay at 1 GHz no matter what you would do. This will slow down your computer and consequentially you can't make use of the computers' true potential.
Whether this problem is present on all MacBook Pro computers is however still unknown as this problem has recently been discovered. It is also uknown whether the newly released MacBook computers are touched by the same problem since they use the same processors.
I encourage everyone to test their computers with Cinebench to check whether they are affected by the problem and report it here. Remove the battery from your laptop, run all test in Cinebench and then do the same but with the battery inserted. Compare the numbers and see for yourself whether your computer is affected by the problem. You can see my benchmarks at http://imelika.net/Benchmarks/MacBook%20Pro
