Warm up your MacBook (2019) • Hacker News Board

Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)

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Post by waterhouse » Wed, May 27, 2026, 10:37 PM UTC

Multithreaded:

  seq 1 20 | xargs -Iqq -n1 -P0 yes >/dev/null

Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)

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Post by why_at » Wed, May 27, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC

sunrunner wrote: post #16

reboot81 wrote: post #14

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

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

No you have to get the yesses back out

  cat /dev/null | yes

Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)

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Post by ciupicri » Wed, May 27, 2026, 10:46 PM UTC

Scubabear68 wrote: post #11

Needs 2019 in title, this is Intel MacBooks not Apple Silicon.

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Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)

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Post by kingjimmy » Wed, May 27, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

"This will start 6 threads that each peg your CPU... "

they're doing what to my CPU????

Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)

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Post by rogerrogerr » Wed, May 27, 2026, 10:56 PM UTC

ciupicri wrote: post #23

Scubabear68 wrote: post #11

Needs 2019 in title, this is Intel MacBooks not Apple Silicon.

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The target market of the "Neo crap" doesn't care and/or isn't pushing workloads that come anywhere near saturating it. It's a laptop that doesn't bend, has a decent screen, has a decent battery, and isn't full of adware.

Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)

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Post by dunham » Wed, May 27, 2026, 11:00 PM UTC

Scubabear68 wrote: post #11

Needs 2019 in title, this is Intel MacBooks not Apple Silicon.

I've found that Baldur's Gate 3 will warm up my apple silicon (everyday tasks do not).

Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)

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Post by dnnddidiej » Wed, May 27, 2026, 11:07 PM UTC

For those without spacebar heating?

Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)

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Post by tithos » Wed, May 27, 2026, 11:11 PM UTC

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Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)

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Post by daneel_w » Wed, May 27, 2026, 11:13 PM UTC

  while true; do openssl speed ecdsap384 -multi 2; done

Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)

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Post by crest » Wed, May 27, 2026, 11:20 PM UTC

kingjimmy wrote: post #24

"This will start 6 threads that each peg your CPU... " they're doing what to my CPU????

Bend over for big tech!