Re: WWDC DVD's ... playing on laptops.

FROM : Derek Chesterfield
DATE : Sat Nov 20 18:00:18 2004

On Nov 20, 2004, at 4:00 pm, Jonathon Mah wrote:

> On 21 Nov 2004, at 02:12, Robert Nicholson wrote:
>

>> Just curious,
>>
>> Does anybody play the .mov's on their laptop?
>>
>> I was wondering which laptops the fans kick in? On my 800 DVI I'm
>> guaranteed to have the fan kick in just after starting Quicktime from
>> the DVD.
>>
>> Do the newer AI books do this?

>
> The "Start Here" (or whatever it's called) app sucks up something like
> 30% processor on my iBook at all times (even when it's "idle" in the
> background), so that might be contributing to it. Of course it's
> unnecessary to have open.


Yes - it appears to use ALL spare CPU, so that my PB was constantly 0%
idle. Start the video for the session you want, then quick the starter
app.