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Looking forward to the follow up: How to Quickly Cool Down Your MacBook

by reboot81 6mo ago

ge96 6mo ago
Strap a thermopile and a peltier on that bad boy
sunrunner 6mo ago
Just do the trick in reverse, surely? yes no > /dev/null
- why_at 6mo ago
  No you have to get the yesses back out cat /dev/null | yes
  - kotaKat 6mo ago
    You might have to load in maybe.so for that to work though.
crote 6mo ago
Unironically, yes. My M3 Macbook Pro's palm rests get uncomfortably warm during regular IDE use. It doesn't get hot enough to spin up a fan, but it is enough to be distracting.
- asimovDev 6mo ago
  interesting. for me only the bottom and the top part above the keyboard gets warm during my work. 16inch model. Is yours the 14inch one?
  - nottorp 6mo ago
    I have the 14 inch and i've never felt it go warm. I think the real question is what IDE we're talking about.
    - asimovDev 6mo ago
      I am mostly in PHPStorm with several projects open + sometimes I have Xcode and/or Android Studio open as well
      - nottorp 6mo ago
        Haven't used PHPStorm but I know Android Studio does a lot of stuff in the background so I wouldn't be surprised if other JetBrains IDEs do the same. Although PHP isn't compiled...
        asimovDev 6mo ago
        There's still indexing, linting and code analysis tools running as well as multiple Docker containers (those are pretty much idle outside of running tests or migrations to be fair) and whatever else it could be doing in the background. I spend 95% of the time with just PHPStorm and other stuff like the terminal, slack and ticketing open. And the browser of course (safari). Xcode and Android Studio are rarely opened. Mostly when I want to test out something in the apps that isn't on testflight / firebase yet.
  - crote 6mo ago
    14 inch, running primarily IntelliJ IDEA and Firefox. Around 10% CPU use most of the time, with of course the occasional spike for compilation. It's not hot, but with 22C ambient it is enough of a rise to be annoying.

Looking forward to the follow up: How to Quickly Cool Down Your MacBook

ge96 6mo ago

Strap a thermopile and a peltier on that bad boy

sunrunner 6mo ago

Just do the trick in reverse, surely? yes no > /dev/null

why_at 6mo ago
No you have to get the yesses back out cat /dev/null | yes
- kotaKat 6mo ago
  You might have to load in maybe.so for that to work though.

crote 6mo ago

Unironically, yes. My M3 Macbook Pro's palm rests get uncomfortably warm during regular IDE use. It doesn't get hot enough to spin up a fan, but it is enough to be distracting.

asimovDev 6mo ago
interesting. for me only the bottom and the top part above the keyboard gets warm during my work. 16inch model. Is yours the 14inch one?
- nottorp 6mo ago
  I have the 14 inch and i've never felt it go warm. I think the real question is what IDE we're talking about.
  - asimovDev 6mo ago
    I am mostly in PHPStorm with several projects open + sometimes I have Xcode and/or Android Studio open as well
    - nottorp 6mo ago
      Haven't used PHPStorm but I know Android Studio does a lot of stuff in the background so I wouldn't be surprised if other JetBrains IDEs do the same. Although PHP isn't compiled...
      - asimovDev 6mo ago
        There's still indexing, linting and code analysis tools running as well as multiple Docker containers (those are pretty much idle outside of running tests or migrations to be fair) and whatever else it could be doing in the background. I spend 95% of the time with just PHPStorm and other stuff like the terminal, slack and ticketing open. And the browser of course (safari). Xcode and Android Studio are rarely opened. Mostly when I want to test out something in the apps that isn't on testflight / firebase yet.
- crote 6mo ago
  14 inch, running primarily IntelliJ IDEA and Firefox. Around 10% CPU use most of the time, with of course the occasional spike for compilation. It's not hot, but with 22C ambient it is enough of a rise to be annoying.