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For those avoiding clickbait titles, this is about thermal throttling. I was genuinely fascinated by the number of people that were surprised when the i9s in M
by ChrisRR 8y ago
For those avoiding clickbait titles, this is about thermal throttling.
I was genuinely fascinated by the number of people that were surprised when the i9s in Macbooks were thermally throttling. Additionally I ended up in a bit of a reddit argument with someone who was adamant that the ipad pro can maintain max GPU output without active cooling.
I guess no matter how much people understand tech, we still want the biggest specs in our computers, even if we sometimes choose to overlook the actual limiting factors.
- ngcc_hk 8y agoI heard other notebook also has issue. Just too thin. True?
- martin_a 8y agoWell, what are your options? Either move away the heat, which needs things like heatpipes and fans and stuff that dissipates... or create less heat. So if you've got no more place for bigger fans, more heatpipes, more surface area to dissipate heat, you can only start to create less heat by throttling your chips. I think if MBPs were 5 mm thicker, you would have no heat problems at all because you could just build them different.
- ahje 8y agoCommunication is the key. Thermal throttling is a no-brainer for people interested in tech, but the vast majority of people still expect their new computers to outperform the previous ones vastly, even if they're switching from a powerful desktop workstation to a fancy laptop. Make sure laptop manufacturers actually tell people about things like this and give it five years or so. After that, people should have gotten used to the fact that a new computer probably isn't twice as fast as the previous generation.
- commandlinefan 8y agoI just upgraded to a MacBook at work - I requested an i9, but they downgraded me to an i7 because they’ve had too many bad experiences with the i9’s overheating and having to be sent back.
- ChrisRR 8y agoJust out of interest, why did you request the i9? I'm not having a dig at you, I'm genuinely interested.
- commandlinefan 8y agoI just picked the top-of-line everything - I wanted to keep myself as future-proof as possible.
- ataturk 8y agoThis is hilarious to me because all those new muscle cars with like 700hp are doing a variation of this same thing--the engine makes big hp but the automatic trans and the electronics pare it back down to actually manageable levels. Big hp is worthless, iow.