I think my last Macbook was Wisconsin-locale instead of California. Closing the lid and putting it to sleep actually caused it to heat up (until the battery died).
It had the soul of a PC
Warm up your MacBook (2019)
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Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)
#62"This will start 6 threads that each peg your CPU... " they're doing what to my CPU????
Fully utilize.
Also, pour one for the death of the analog speedo. Peg the needle, no more!
Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)
#63Or you could get a laptop that doesn't have an metal shell, like a thinkpad.
Or just leave the machine plugged in and turned on for like 5 minutes while you grab a coffee or have a conversation. It doesn't really take that long to warm up to room temperature. Unless this guy is like biking 15 miles to work in the winter in which case, he is doing Wisconsin wrong, you're supposed to drive to work with a beer to warm you up.
Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)
#64Looking forward to the follow up: How to Quickly Cool Down Your MacBook
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.
Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)
#65Looking forward to the follow up: How to Quickly Cool Down Your MacBook
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.
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?
Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
BG3 is a native game, they dropped x86 support shortly after launch on macOS (or maybe even in beta)
Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)
#67Now do the opposite for the summer! Show me a command line that cools down the machine! ;)
Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)
#68Does this work with M series ? M series is much colder and my fingers hurt
Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)
#69Speaking of cold weather and warming up computers... I've had my fair share of long bicycle commutes during cold winters and I always wondered whether booting up the laptop right after arriving has any effect on the long-term reliability? Like, are there any components which suffer from being activated when they're really cold?
Re: Warm up your MacBook (2019)
#70Warming up a 2019-era (Intel) MacBook Pro was never my problem. Quite the opposite. Those machines ran notoriously hot. The later macOS releases, combined with company-mandated crapware, made it worse. Doing an ordinary build or starting a videoconferencing session was enough to cause the fans to run. On a warm day the fans couldn’t shed enough heat and so the system would go into thermal throttling. The OS would occ…
My Intel MBP would noticeably raise the whole room's temperature, while the fans ran so loud. We had some corporate security software that would occasionally go haywire and lock up 100% of a core until you rebooted. If you got that at the same time as a video call it would become too physically painful to touch any part of the metal body with bare skin.