[Lizard7]

I love my black macbook so far-- except for one issue. When I peg both cores at 100%, the CPU speed drops to 1.83 Ghz once the temperature hits 80 C. It then oscillates between 2.0 and 1.83 (but mostly stays at 1.83). Occasionally it drops even lower (1.66, 1.5 or 1.0). Changing the energy saver settings doesn't seem to have an effect.

Does anyone have a cooler runing macbook that actually maintains 2.0 Ghz under full load?

[Hi I'm Ben]

If it doesn't need to run at 2Ghz it won't.

[Maflynn]

Originally Posted by Lizard7

Does anyone have a cooler runing macbook that actually maintains 2.0 Ghz under full load?

If you start throwing more intensive tasks at the MB it will ramp up to 2.0GHz pretty quickly. Its too bad that apple removed the option on MBs to select reduced, highest cpu performance. I think I'm a better judge of when the computer should go full speed. Alas that's not in the cards, regardless it will jump up to 2.0 when it needs to.