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I want my laptop to be more predictable and reliable and with great battery life instead of having more performance. But thanks to turbo boost, sometimes my la
by SpacePortKnight 4y ago
I want my laptop to be more predictable and reliable and with great battery life instead of having more performance.
But thanks to turbo boost, sometimes my laptop is hot playing a youtube video but cool when compiling code or the other way around. There is no predictability on how long a compilation will take or how long the battery will last, since it would depend on N thermal and power factors.
At least to me, this feels like when marketing designs products instead of product managers. I recently bought an Intel 12th gen i5-1240p laptop (asus zenbook) and this processor boosts from 1.7Ghz to 4.4Ghz i.e. more than twice the base frequency. That's absurd? I rather have a stable ~2Ghz than have the processor boost up to ~4Ghz while surfing the web.
Hence we wouldn't need tools like this if at-least on laptop, Intel released chips with no or smaller turbo boost range.
- winrid 4y agoWe'll probably see physical "turbo" switches on laptops at some point as a gimmic, but that would honestly be ideal at this point.