VMware - What happened to the fan?

[macDonalds]

I was on a white Macbook early last year, using VMware with 3gigs of ram. I recall one of the minor annoyances was the Macbook fans that would fire up quite a lot when I was running VMWare.

For a short stint I went back to PC but now I'm back. I invested in a Macbook Pro (base model w/2gigs of ram). I have been running VMWare all day long and I haven't heard any fans -- awesome!

Is this due to the hardware or software? I have a 4gig kit on the way; I didn't think VMWare was going to run so smoothly with 2.

 

[Eidorian]

If you're using one of the new Aluminium Unibody models Apple really changed the fan profiles. They don't spin up until the laptop is near 100 C.

 

[macDonalds]

If you're using one of the new Aluminium Unibody models Apple really changed the fan profiles. They don't spin up until the laptop is near 100 C.

That's it then! Me likey.