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by david-gpu 553 days ago
Phones perform thermal throttling before getting too hot. The question thus becomes: how does it perform after one hour?
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EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 553 days ago
Not great) Tried replacing my laptop with a Samsung phone+monitor combination on a trip, didn't really work out. Phones are not built for continuous load.
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wkat4242 553 days ago
The official DeX docks have a fan built in. This helps a lot especially if you take the phone out of the case. I need to do so anyway because the usb doesn't go in deep enough without it.
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EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 553 days ago
dock + fan + monitor already weights more than a laptop ..
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wkat4242 553 days ago
Umm yeah but I don't travel with those. I keep them on site. And just plug in my phone when I get there. I have one set up at every place I am a lot.
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david-gpu 553 days ago
Yeah, I used to work on what was eventually sold as the Meta Quest VR headset and we all knew that thermal throttling would be a major sticking point.

Thankfully my job was all about reducing rendering latency to prevent people from getting nauseous, so thermal throttling was outside of my scope.

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