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Many, if not most, desktop-replacement laptops with 4+ cores are thermally limited on compute, and will throttle back under extended high load. I see it as a co
by barrkel 9y ago
Many, if not most, desktop-replacement laptops with 4+ cores are thermally limited on compute, and will throttle back under extended high load. I see it as a compromise of the form factor rather than dishonesty per se.
- nneonneo 9y agoThis isn't a case of thermal limiting - this is a case of the power supply being literally unable to supply enough power to run the system at its full capacity. If I can't use that 1060 at full power for more than 5% of the battery capacity, even while plugged into the wall, isn't that misleading?
- barrkel 9y agoThe limiting factor might be different but the effect is the same. A rose by any other name would leave you just as disappointed. (I'm not certain that the limiting factor is actually different, FWIW. Dissipating 100W from a laptop isn't easy. Macbook Pros limit at 80W AFAIK. If the power supply could keep up, I'd expect it to get too hot anyway.)
- brudgers 9y agoDissipating lots of heat from a laptop isn't that hard, it's just that the tradeoffs take the form of gaming laptops because the laws of thermodynamics are not shaped by consumer preferences.
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- izacus 9y agoYep, my 2016 15" MBP (2.9 GHz version) will lock the CPU clock down to 1.2 GHz after about half a minute of running some compilation on all cores. It makes for a staggerng difference in comparison to even old i5 2500K desktop CPU, which can easily outperform the laptop.
- pizza234 9y agoThe main problem is not the thermal limiting - it's the tablet battery draining while being connected to the AC, which is counterintuitive and undesirable.