MacBook Louder in XP than in OS X

I have a new 13" Aluminum MacBook on which I installed Windows XP using Boot Camp yesterday. I am noticing that the MacBook is much louder when running XP than it is when running OS X. It sounds like a fan spinning. (does it even have a fan? maybe it is the HD spinning?) In OS X it is virtually silent, is this normal?

Scott,
as I say I wouldn't worry too much about it as I doubt very much that Apple have released these without sufficient testing.
As far as I can see the drivers from nVidia are sketchy at best even for OS X so I'm sure everything will be sorted out shortly as updates are released.
I don't know how Apple updates Windows drivers though, it could happen through Software Update, Windows Update or be something you have to do manually. It certainly would not require a re-install of XP though.

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