Disabling one of the cores

I remember seeing iMac Core Duo reviews in which the reviewer turned one of the cores off and only used one to run his computer. Is this possible with the Macbook pro?
Macbook Pro 1.83 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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Battery life after disabling one of the cores

After installing the CHUD tool from the installation DVD #1 I tried disabling one of the cores to see if I can increase the battery life, but it seems as soon as I disable one core the frequency jumps to 1.83 GHz and constantly stays at the maximum. So it seems the battery time drops by ~30 min compared to using dual core when at idle. Since this is the battery life during idle, there may be a benefit if one constantly maxes out the frequency in dual core mode when running on battery. I don't max out the CPU frequency most of the time so disabling a core may actually decrease my battery life. Only if I can keep 1.5GHz or below with single core use...

i was also playing around with turning on and off the second CPU after installing CHUD .. i was quite surprised that my battery time is ~30min to ~1hr less when only one CPU is on .. this is completly the oppisite of what i thought would happen. just thought it was kinda interesting.
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we have copied the Standard program: RFDOPR00 into Z, my requirement is to disable one of the select-options in dynamic selection screen for ex: Reason code(User shouldnot able to enter anything in it).
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Hi,
Get inside your selection screen, by executing your program.
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Quicktime disables one of the disks in my RAID 5 array.

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I have just installed ver 7.2 of Quicktime and after I began playing a Quicktime movie file one of the disks on my RAID array came up as failed. I have managed to recover this problem, but is there anything I can do to stop this happening again???... (apart from going back to XP )
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I just had the same problem. This is the second time I'm having this issue, the first time was when I installed Quicktime the first time a couple months ago, I don't remember which version it was (cannot remember if it was during the installation of the first file I played). I lost one of my drive in my RAID 0 or 1 (mirroring), fortunately I was able to rebuilt the image.
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Issue with Disabling one of the menu item in Forms6i

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I have a requirement where I need to disable the IR/PO Information (menu item) created using Form Personalization in Sales Order form.
If the Warehouse is other than ‘FIM’ it should be disabled for that particular line.
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Regards,
Bala

Bala,
I can suggest one work around.
Say your menu entry is special1.
You probably already have a personalization that fires for trigger event = special1.
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This way, the PO information screen will come up only for FIM.
You can consider creating a new personalization that fires for same trigger event = special1.
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Can anyone tell me a way of disabling the sub link of Goto link in top menu.
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Edited by: Dineshv on Jun 7, 2011 6:52 AM

Hi Martin Voros,
What you are saying is wrong i guess. Because in our company some times users complaining that they can't save reports as a local file since the "List > Save > Local File" link is disable (ash color). Once i give the autherization for object S_GUI field name ACTVT = 61, they can go ahead with that and save it as a local file.
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How to disable one F key without disabling the rest

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is there another way to disable only one key?
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Disabling one processor

Hi,
i'm a little curious about this,
is it possible to disable one processor manually from osx?
Will it consume less power (perhaps half?).
I'm asking this because i keep the macpro on all the day,
but only a few hours i need to work hard with all the 4 cores.
I'm not crazy, simply my energy bill this month was a bit too high and i think the guilty was the macpro.

you can use apples chud tools to disable one or more cores: http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/14358
when you install it youll get a 'hardware' or 'processor' prefpane which will let you disable the last 3 cores of the mac. im not sure whether this actually turns them off, but they certainly get no tasks to carry out so it should use less power. you can also keep your work to just the boot drive and any other drives you have in there will spin down, thatll use less power. i cant think of much else to do really.. turn the brightness down on your monitor if its tft, those backlights eat up power. oh yea, and turn off airport and bluetooth as well as the ethernet ports if youre not using them.

One of the CPU disappeared !!!

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As many of us I guess, I'm using IStat Pro to monitor my macbook (temperatures etc.) and it seemed since 2/3 months I have CPU A still apprearing, but not the CPU B !
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Thanks
Y

It's the new Intel i7 machines that have "virtual" cores.
The virtual cores are yet another version of Hyperthreading, hopefully better implemented then last time around.
HT is not good for programs that operate in real-time, specifically, Logic Audio. Performance tests show Logic running more efficiently when Hyperthreading is shut of via the terminal.
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I can disable one of my MacBook's two processors using the CPUPalette application. How can I do it under control of a script?
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>>One is the physical adapter another is a virtual adapter created by 3rd party software. Virtual Network adapter always stays enabled (even if you disable it, it comes right back to the enabled state
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Disable Route through WLB to one of the 2 appservers to Discoverer

I have an appl server farm
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