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My iPad Air with M2 can run local LLMs rather well. But it gets ridiculously hot within seconds and starts throttling.
by andix 7mo ago
My iPad Air with M2 can run local LLMs rather well. But it gets ridiculously hot within seconds and starts throttling.
- HPsquared 7mo agoI wonder if anyone has made a liquid cooling system for ipads / phones. Like, a sealed thing that seals onto the back of the device and circulates cooling water directly against the back surface.
- jml7c5 7mo agoA more whimsical method is to put the thing in a glass of water with the cord sticking out. :-) https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/1m269k0/playing_skyrim_with_my_watercooled_s25/ https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/1m269k0...
- irjustin 7mo agoa sandwich bag would work wonders, then you could use ice to counter the plastic's thermal inefficiencies!
- zenmac 7mo ago> First, in a watertight plastic bag and then in the water? Was wondering, but this the most duct tap hacker solution!
- jychang 7mo agoThrow it in a Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) bag and it'll be a pretty good long term solution.
- Tade0 7mo agoAs I discovered cooling down hardboiled eggs, it's better to keep a thin layer of moisture that cools the object via evaporation. Something of this sort should keep the device moisturised: https://www.thehydrobros.com/products/automatic-water-sprayer-2-liter-electric-mister-graphite?variant=44618187669719 https://www.thehydrobros.com/products/automatic-water-spraye... 0.2ml/s at its lowest setting looks like the ballpark of what's required to maintain temperature.
- whamlastxmas 7mo agoI have a small portable fan that I place under it basically any time I use it for any development work. It gets thermally throttled pretty fast otherwise. It's definitely the wrong machine for my needs but it's what I gotta work with for now.
- ThatMedicIsASpy 7mo agoYou can buy a liquid cooled tablet. https://onexplayerstore.com/products/onexplayer-super-x?variant=52055303389478 https://onexplayerstore.com/products/onexplayer-super-x?vari...
- internetter 7mo agoipad pro actually preforms fairly comparably according to geekbench
- aidenn0 7mo agoWhat about submerging it in mineral oil?
- cercatrova 7mo agoYou're in luck. Lots of phone manufacturers also implement liquid cooling inside the phone too. https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-launches-new-mobile-water-cooler-with-active-fan-and-pump.1255727.0.html https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xiaomi-launches-new-mobile-wat...
- ActorNightly 7mo agoYeah, lets add more cost and complexity in a cooling system so instead of 1 token per second we get 2 tokens per second, all of the price of one graphics card that can do 50+ tokens a second. Apple fans never cease to amaze me.
- Schiendelman 7mo agoI think the vapor chamber cooling Apple's starting to use is something like that, no?