As mentioned the other day, my new acquisition - an immaculate 1.5Ghz Powerbook 12” is in dire need of cooling system refurbishment but until then I’ve used G4Fan Control to nudge the fan threshold 3 degrees and set the CPU into Reduced mode.
After setting it up and using it today, it turns out this is a fairly effective (temporary) fix - not once has the fan revved up and the lowered CPU meant I got nearly 2 and a half hours out of the battery (which after all these years is now at about 60% capacity.)
Geekbench at normal speed gave 856 but in Reduced mode is now 465 - so it’s performing roughly at the speed of an 800Mhz TiBook - this in effect isn’t that noticeable and it’s enough to do my normal stuff with ease: use InTheBox instances of InterWebPPC, play Youtube from Safari/PPCMC7/MPlayer, internet radio via iTunes etc.
Warp Speed - who needs it
After setting it up and using it today, it turns out this is a fairly effective (temporary) fix - not once has the fan revved up and the lowered CPU meant I got nearly 2 and a half hours out of the battery (which after all these years is now at about 60% capacity.)
Geekbench at normal speed gave 856 but in Reduced mode is now 465 - so it’s performing roughly at the speed of an 800Mhz TiBook - this in effect isn’t that noticeable and it’s enough to do my normal stuff with ease: use InTheBox instances of InterWebPPC, play Youtube from Safari/PPCMC7/MPlayer, internet radio via iTunes etc.
Warp Speed - who needs it