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by jamiepenney 2770 days ago
Better cooling, definitely. My machine gets quite hot on my lap unless I have it turn on the fans earlier using Macs Fan Control. I'm using it as a pro machine, so it's running a bunch of docker containers, Slack, VS Code, a million tabs across Firefox and Chrome. It's a busy machine and it doesn't need to be silent if that means it's hot enough to be uncomfortable on my legs and hands.
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zepolen 2770 days ago
MBP heating issues are from the fact that the dedicated GPU doesn't get enough cooling, the frame is too small.

Add https://github.com/0xbb/gpu-switch - run the integrated gpu only - and you will never listen to a fan again, and prolong the life of your MPB.

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j45 2769 days ago
It's discouraging to hear the 15" MBP GPU's still have heating/failure issues, I toasted a few 15" MBP GPU's in 2006-2009. Not sure what the point is to have a GPU in a laptop I don't use.
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sooheon 2770 days ago
The project readme warns it's broken on recent macos versions.
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dwighttk 2770 days ago
Chrome is probably the biggest culprit. It is awfuly inefficient on macOS
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bluescrn 2770 days ago
Firefox burns through battery rapidly too. Seems that you have to stick with Safari to get good battery life out of an MBP - it makes a very real difference
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wild_preference 2769 days ago
I switched to Safari when it added favicons to browser tabs the other month. The CPU-usage/battery difference is huge. I also like the new Safari extension paradigm and have ported some extensions of my own that could be improved by moving CPU-bound work to Swift.

I only use Chrome for development now.

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dwighttk 2769 days ago
I have Chrome only for the built in Flash. I don’t play many flash games these days, but I don’t know what I’m going to do when Google finally strips that out. Seems like Kongregate has drifted towards Unity but there are a few classics, and I have an old game that a friend and I made a long time ago that I like to play from time to time.
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patzal 2769 days ago
Am I misunderstanding something, or you just said Safari added favicon support in 2018?
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dwighttk 2769 days ago
You did not misunderstand: that is a new thing in Safari
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