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by seabriez 1476 days ago
And why do I care about perf-power ratio if my laptop is plugged in? WHY? I can understand if it switched to high perf-power ration when Im not plugged, but why would I need that when Im plugged in? Seems like a made up, just because metric.
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astrange 1476 days ago
Otherwise it would throttle instantly because your MBAir has a passive cooling system.

Also, it would make you infertile and it’d drain the battery faster than the charger can recharge it.

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ezsmi 1476 days ago
Because lots of power makes a system hot. And a hot system is a slow system, even if the battery is full.

https://www.novatech.co.uk/blog/cpu-and-thermal-throttling/

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seabriez 1476 days ago
Nothing you said here doesn't not apply to M1 which also overheat under high load and gets throttled, and some of them dont even have a fan.

https://medium.com/illumination/how-to-solve-overheating-iss....

A lot of these benchmarks run for several minutes and test the system as it OVERHEATs, simulating real conditions and Intel i12 beats M1/M2. So this doesnt change anything or bring any new information.

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ezsmi 1476 days ago
This is the first sentence of that article, “MacBook rarely shows overheating issues.”

I can say that’s definitely not the case of the Intel laptop I’m currently using.

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