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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).
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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.
Won't work on M processors, (un)fortunately.
I recently installed an app to manually activate the fans on my MacBook Pro M1 Pro as I've never been able to trigger them over the past 4+ years. Just to check whether the fans even work (they do).
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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.
The article was about warming up a laptop. Neo can do it too.
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I've found that Baldur's Gate 3 will warm up my apple silicon (everyday tasks do not).
Is that running on Rosetta 2? Rosetta 2 does (or did, maybe it's removed now) a fine job running x86 code on Apple Silicon, but boy was it cycle-hungry to do it.
If you get a MacBook Air it will get quite toasty at throttling limits. After all, it has no fan.
MacBook Pro models and Apple computers in general tend to favor quiet operation over keeping the laptop surface cool.
Many PC gaming laptops go out of their way to keep warm air off the keyboard deck with a high willingness to use fan noise to accomplish that since the assumption is that you’re resting your hands on the computer for an extended period and you have headphones on for your game anyway.
Or you could get a laptop that doesn't have an metal shell, like a thinkpad.
How big is the risk of condensation when you bring a cold laptop inside? All their spec sheets say they support up to x% _non-condensing_ humidity, which I’m guessing is about the dew point?
For years at work I've been just using Cinebench as a hand warmer on various Macbooks.
For those without spacebar heating?