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Better cooling, definitely. My machine gets quite hot on my lap unless I have it turn on the fans earlier using Macs Fan Control. I'm using it as a pro machine,

Better cooling, definitely. My machine gets quite hot on my lap unless I have it turn on the fans earlier using Macs Fan Control. I'm using it as a pro machine, so it's running a bunch of docker containers, Slack, VS Code, a million tabs across Firefox and Chrome. It's a busy machine and it doesn't need to be silent if that means it's hot enough to be uncomfortable on my legs and hands.

zepolen 8y ago
MBP heating issues are from the fact that the dedicated GPU doesn't get enough cooling, the frame is too small. Add https://github.com/0xbb/gpu-switch https://github.com/0xbb/gpu-switch - run the integrated gpu only - and you will never listen to a fan again, and prolong the life of your MPB.
- sooheon 8y ago
  The project readme warns it's broken on recent macos versions.
- j45 8y ago
  It's discouraging to hear the 15" MBP GPU's still have heating/failure issues, I toasted a few 15" MBP GPU's in 2006-2009. Not sure what the point is to have a GPU in a laptop I don't use.
dwighttk 8y ago
Chrome is probably the biggest culprit. It is awfuly inefficient on macOS
- bluescrn 8y ago
  Firefox burns through battery rapidly too. Seems that you have to stick with Safari to get good battery life out of an MBP - it makes a very real difference
  - wild_preference 8y ago
    I switched to Safari when it added favicons to browser tabs the other month. The CPU-usage/battery difference is huge. I also like the new Safari extension paradigm and have ported some extensions of my own that could be improved by moving CPU-bound work to Swift. I only use Chrome for development now.
    - dwighttk 8y ago
      I have Chrome only for the built in Flash. I don’t play many flash games these days, but I don’t know what I’m going to do when Google finally strips that out. Seems like Kongregate has drifted towards Unity but there are a few classics, and I have an old game that a friend and I made a long time ago that I like to play from time to time.
    - patzal 8y ago
      Am I misunderstanding something, or you just said Safari added favicon support in 2018?
      - dwighttk 8y ago
        You did not misunderstand: that is a new thing in Safari

zepolen 8y ago

MBP heating issues are from the fact that the dedicated GPU doesn't get enough cooling, the frame is too small. Add https://github.com/0xbb/gpu-switch https://github.com/0xbb/gpu-switch - run the integrated gpu only - and you will never listen to a fan again, and prolong the life of your MPB.

sooheon 8y ago
The project readme warns it's broken on recent macos versions.
j45 8y ago
It's discouraging to hear the 15" MBP GPU's still have heating/failure issues, I toasted a few 15" MBP GPU's in 2006-2009. Not sure what the point is to have a GPU in a laptop I don't use.

dwighttk 8y ago

Chrome is probably the biggest culprit. It is awfuly inefficient on macOS

bluescrn 8y ago
Firefox burns through battery rapidly too. Seems that you have to stick with Safari to get good battery life out of an MBP - it makes a very real difference
- wild_preference 8y ago
  I switched to Safari when it added favicons to browser tabs the other month. The CPU-usage/battery difference is huge. I also like the new Safari extension paradigm and have ported some extensions of my own that could be improved by moving CPU-bound work to Swift. I only use Chrome for development now.
  - dwighttk 8y ago
    I have Chrome only for the built in Flash. I don’t play many flash games these days, but I don’t know what I’m going to do when Google finally strips that out. Seems like Kongregate has drifted towards Unity but there are a few classics, and I have an old game that a friend and I made a long time ago that I like to play from time to time.
  - patzal 8y ago
    Am I misunderstanding something, or you just said Safari added favicon support in 2018?
    - dwighttk 8y ago
      You did not misunderstand: that is a new thing in Safari