Silenced my MacBook with Sleepwatcher and CHUD tools
My MacBook Pro has the SUPER annoying processor whine. First I ran PhotoBooth to keep it quiet but then each time I tried to use the iSight for something legitimate I would have to go quick PhotoBooth, and there was the battery usage from running the program and iSight 100% of the time.
Next I learned of Apple’s CHUD. This would let me turn off one CPU in the System Preferences but I quickly found out that after going to sleep the second CPU would be re-enabled.
Okay I am running Tiger so Automator should be the solution but that very quickly was ruled out. Next try was Proxi which could be what Automator should have been a friend said. I then had to find out if there was an AppleScript event for “wakeup”. Now we were getting somewhere. I found SleepWatcher but it is a PowerPC binary, okay but we have the source so we can compile it to be Universal. I followed the Apple instructions but they missed a critical step. Success so far.
1. Install SleepWatcher, replace /opt/bin/sleepwatcher with a Universal binary
2. Add "hwprefs cpu_disable 2" to your /etc/rc.wakeup file
I killed SleepWatcher with the Activity Monitor and restarted it with ‘sudo /opt/local/sbin/sleepwatcher -d’
Silence is golden, I hope this works!!
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