Can selfupdate be done incrementally

[Craig Treleaven]

Another way to look at it...make it fail now--within the warranty 
period--if it _is_ going to fail!  (You do have backups, right?)  But 
as Tim Haigh alluded, Apple squeezed a lot of hardware in a small box 
and did some good work to mitigate and control temps.  If you run it 
hard and at high temps all the time, it may lead to a shorter life 
span for the drives.

Craig

At 6:00 AM +0100 4/7/12, Tim Haigh wrote:
>The MLB in your mac has sensors that will automatically shutdown 
>your mac if it ever got to a critical heat.  This is never likely to 
>happen.   I had a 2009 mac mini that ran for a couple of years 
>sandwiched between an Apple Airport base station and an ASDL modem, 
>I never turned it off in 3 years. never had an issue.  it did all my 
>compiling etc.
>On 6 Apr 2012, at 18:58, Tim Johnson wrote:
>
>>  I use a 2012 Mac Mini with OSX Lion.
>>
>  > I haven't run selfupdate in some time.
>>
>>  My observations in the past is that this machine runs alarmingly hot
>>  during long compiles. I recall being very nervous during the last
>  > selfupdate with temperature raising to as 180 F or more.
>  >