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thomas lusk

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Message 1184316 - Posted: 10 Jan 2012, 10:54:07 UTC

My MacBook was getting extremely hot with the fans getting louder. how can i just do one job at a time to keep my computer from getting so hot?
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Message 1184320 - Posted: 10 Jan 2012, 12:20:33 UTC - in response to Message 1184316.  

In your Computing preferences set:
On multiprocessors, use at most 25% of the processors
Enforced by version 6.1+

If you ever used your local preferences, you'll have to make the changes there, because the local preferences override the online ones.

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Gundolf
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