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>don't boot your Macs into third-party operating systems (high potential for thermal damage or even misconfiguring mainboard components such that it might cause
by Epiphany21 5y ago
>don't boot your Macs into third-party operating systems (high potential for thermal damage or even misconfiguring mainboard components such that it might cause data loss even when rebooted back into macOS
I see this fantastical claim thrown around on all kinds of forums, of course never with sources cited.
There shouldn't be any potential for thermal damage from software. There should be very simple low level circuitry on the board that cuts power after a critical temperature is exceeded, regardless of how the OS or firmware are set up. Many consumer devices have something like this so that they don't melt down and hurt people. Are you trying to say that Apple isn't including basic safety features anymore?
- vaxman 5y agoThanks for helping me get downvoted. I am a source, of course, for these claims and the Internet is littered with relevant testimonials. Expect the hysteresis shutdown to allow for UL-like protection of the consumer, not say, the D500 GPUs in the trashmacs.
- Epiphany21 5y agoYou are most welcome. I just so happen to be a hobbyist who has had my hands on almost every generation of Mac from the later 68k models to the Intel platforms up to around 2012. And I have booted NetBSD or some kind of Linux on almost all of them. They did not overheat or suffer any damage. In fact, my hottest running Macs in my collection, the G4 PowerBooks, run cooler under Linux than OS X 10.5 I still think you're grossly overstating the risks of modes of failure that just don't happen that often.