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they could have done it if they thought that there was a problem for the people buying the Air. If those people are frequently doing 8K Final Cut Pro renders, t
by Tagbert 4y ago
they could have done it if they thought that there was a problem for the people buying the Air. If those people are frequently doing 8K Final Cut Pro renders, then this kind of modification might make sense. If the Air buyers are browsing the web, doing photo edits, and doing basic programming, there is no need because those tasks don't push it into the heat limits.
Of course, there is the problem that those mods cause the case to heat up past the limits that EU safety regulations allow, but they just don't need to sell it in the EU then?
- SR2Z 4y agoThis seems like such low-hanging fruit, though. It wouldn't take very much at all - just a single extra NFC chip, and some code to allow the chip to run at full TDP while plugged in + on an approved cooling pad. The benefits are HUGE - plenty of people want small laptops that they can use on the go, but most laptops spend most of their time docked.
- Tagbert 4y agoHow huge are the benefits, really? This doesn't affect normal operations. The laptop stays cool during most of the things you would do on a laptop. The only time it hits the thermal limits are during large batch operations involving both the cpu and the gpu. Even then, it still does the work but has to slow down by only 10-20%.