> Scrolling is smooth only when connected to power (probably related to CPU throttling - but it's 2019 and it shouldn't matter). This likely isn't CPU throttli

> Scrolling is smooth only when connected to power (probably related to CPU throttling - but it's 2019 and it shouldn't matter). This likely isn't CPU throttling at all. iTerm by default uses the faster Metal renderer when your MBP is plugged in, and a different renderer when not. You can adjust this so that it always uses Metal by following the instructions on this page: https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/Metal-Renderer https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/Metal-Renderer If you live full time inside iTerm, I would highly recommend reading over the documentation and becoming fully familiar with the different aspects of it and what you can tweak. Despite it being something that merely "displays a matrix of a few thousand characters", it is still a very complex piece of software and knowing at least a basic level of its configuration will likely be worth it.