[kayodelycaon]

It's less difficult than I thought to to get an M1 Max chip hot enough to spin up fans. Run CitiesSkylines on a 4K display with all of the graphics maxed out for a few hours. ;)

Or do 8 parallel runs of transforming and merging a massive amount of jpgs into less massive pile of pdfs. Just about fully pegged all of the cores for hours.

What surprised me was how fast everything still was. Without the fan, I wouldn't have known the load the system was under.

[Clamchop]

This is a tangent but, I cannot for the life of me get Skylines to run without the cursor offset by approximately the height of the notch, even on an external display. Have you not had this problem?

[solardev]

Out of curiosity, why would you want to combine jpegs into PDFs? And why did that cause such a load? It wasn't just embedding them into PDFs, but somehow recompressing them too?

[kayodelycaon]

Documents scans. Lots of them. They all needed to get processed so the pages would be the same size.

I don't know what imagemagick does when you ask it to merge jpgs into a pdf. :)

[solardev]

Ah, that makes sense

[brailsafe]

Ya, those workloads would do it. My M1 Pro 16" really made my intel mbp feel sluggish, especially if I'm running any containers. Not quite enough to replace it yet, but sometime in the next year if I can do something useful with it.