On 03/29/2013 01:44 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-27 at 21:22 +0100, . wrote: >> So now that GNOME 3.8 has "Classic Mode"[1] I'll see how loud my >> notebook's fan gets, since from the picture it seems that it uses 3D >> acceleration. 3D acceleration was always something which gets my (and my >> friends') notebook fan very loud and decreases battery time. 3D for >> desktop, at least for older notebooks, is unnecessary (I don't know if >>> =Sandy Bridge notebook are louder too when using 3D). >> [1] https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.8/ > Sounds like a hardware/driver issue to me. > > I use GNOME Shell on a 6+ year old Toshiba laptop with a lame Intel i9xx > series GPU. The laptop runs cool and long; there is not excessive > utilization. > I'd like to test it but can't find a live CD. I expect it to appear here https://www.gnome.org/getting-gnome/ in a few days? _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
