[OS X TeX] Texmaker vs. TexShop

[Richard Seguin]

> On Nov 9, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On , at 2015 Nov 9,11:31 AM, Richard Seguin wrote:
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>>> On Nov 9, 2015, at 5:34 AM, Alain Schremmer <schremmer.alain at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On , at 2015 Nov 9,6:07 AM, Jutta Wrage wrote:
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>>>> TexShop ist using OpenGL which tends to heat up graphic cards and maybe kill them.
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>>> As many people on this list could tell you, I am totally unable to give you any advice. On the other hand, I have been using TeXShop (and a lot of graphics) for at least ten years and I have never had any problem with the graphic card. 
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>>> Regards
>>> —schremme
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>> Some versions of Apple’s Macbook Pros, including mine, have had issues with graphics cards burning up from heat, and sometimes taking the entire logic board with them. Apple does not design laptops for optimal heat dissipation (form over function!), and, in some cases, there have also been problems with the heatsink adhesive that attaches the heatsink to the processor. In my case, I believe that it was the photo editing software Aperture that put enough stress on the graphics card to cause it to fail. My logic board was replaced for free under the result of a class action lawsuit.
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> I did not know. But then my graphics are puny and I never edit photos. I just take them and store them (NOT with iphoto)
> That it should have taken a class action lawsuit is all too credible but quite deplorable.
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> Best regards
> --schremmer


Actually, NVIDIA had to pay for the replacements, not Apple, because it was the fault of their GPUs.

I was making huge 48 MP TIFF scans of old slides and editing them in Aperture. Aperture probably makes intensive use of the GPU for all sorts of filters and adjustments, hence the overheating.

Richard Séguin