Or you could just read the laptop specs and see how they probably say "X GHz" and not "X GHz persistent load, Y GHz at peaks". Also look for things like "softwa

Or you could just read the laptop specs and see how they probably say "X GHz" and not "X GHz persistent load, Y GHz at peaks". Also look for things like "software has to downclock the CPU if it gets too hot". (btw, the Linux kernel does do that anyway for certain supported cpus, but this is just safety and not normal operation)