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Old Mar 18, 2008 | 6:03 pm
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Originally Posted by jgsx
It does have the protection, and that is what I was seeing. The problem was with Parallels, not the MBA.
My point is why couldn't the MBA protect itself from Parallels? Why couldn't the hardware fault when it was requested to do whatever it did to overheat and cause kernel problems?

We'd have to get a lot more specifics to compare, but the Windows kernel has all sort of protection from applications messing with it.
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