MacBook Pro crashes: Apple disables Turbo Boost under Windows?

Not sure what the fuss is all about: my sandy bridge i7-2600k with the stock intel CPU fan always runs around 90C under load (Windows 7 Ult, 16gb ram) its factory set to power off at 99C (it doesnt).

From the other early adopters online I speak to this seems normal: i7s, 1st or 2nd gen, run hot. Welcome to the world of the i7 quad+ core. (maybe Intel should call it Hellfire?)

so I was about to take my maiden voyage into apple world and pick up my first ever MBP.

With the wife wanting an iMac for xmass/next upgrade I sold myself into thinking that all I need is the 13 incher 2.7 i7 for work/photo editing/music/home movie creating/portability ... (big screen will come down the road w iMac)

Now all this talk about crashing and overheating - any advise for a first timer?

I'm surprised that after so many years Apple still can't get its MBP line to run a sensible temperature. My core2duo MBP ran far too hot to touch, at idle, and therefore use as a LAPtop. consequently, I've resisted buying another MBP since then.. and for good reason it seems. :-/

Isn't the 2.3 Ghz quad-core the high-end?

Hmm... I can see that being a problem under windows. I remember back in 2003, we had many servers (hp, IBM, others) where we had to turn off hyper-threading to keep them from crashing. Windows OS could not handle hyper-threading when some apps were putting a load on the server.

But as for people reporting it with only mac apps running, I hope it is fixed soon. Maybe it is hitting one of the bad controllers that Intel said not to use?

I use smc fan control in all my apple products-mac mini- mac book pro & iMac. Fans are cheaper than other components in your puter. At the genius bar they told me fans would run around $150 to replace... VS motherboard-video card etc. It is not that loud & it's nice not to gave my mbp burning my lap;-)

Just download smc fan control, I keep the fans humming along at 6000 rpm all the time and my temp never exceeds 100 F. For the windows side I initially start on Mac o/s then reboot to vista and the fans continue at their current speed of 6000 rpm.

Now, now; what kind of an Apple laptop would it be if you couldn't even bring water to a boil with it? It's a proud tradition, don't knock it.

Yeah this is just more sloppy blogging on what others blogs said.

The 13" MBP at 2.7 GHz will outperform the 2.2 GHz even if the lower speed model is fully clocked up to its max dual core speed of 2.6 GHz and the 2.7 GHz has Turbo Boost disabled (numbers from the Anandtech article cited). Even so, this is only considering the 13" model. The "top-end" MBP is the 2.3 GHz quad core 15"/17" model, which with discrete graphics, is the apparent source of the overheating and crashing problems (previously on TUAW it was reported that going to integrated graphics only on these models eliminated the crashing issue). The 13" models only get integrated Intel graphics, and overheating in these would indicate that Apple is not properly cooling the CPU, not the GPU (Sandy Bridge integrated graphics is on-die with the CPU). Then, of course, if as throated the crashing happens under heavy graphics load, this would be odd.

But as you said, Boot Camp has had thermal issues for years. If this is true, and Apple is disabling Turbo Boost on the high-end 13" then I'd expect this to be Apple's only "fix" for it. but it would be rather ineffective, since as you also note, Turbo Boost isn't only about increasing clock speed, but also powering down cores not in use to lower the thermal profile. There must be more to why Turbo Boost is apparently disabled under Windows.

10.6.7 fixes this issue

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1120543&page=5