[alt227]

> very shitty Intel CPU with not a lot of cores and with thermal challenges

Very often the intel chips in macbooks were stellar, they were just seriously inhibited by Apples terrible cooling designs and so were permanently throttled.

They could never provide decent cooling for the chips coupled with their desire to make paper thin devices.

[kllrnohj]

> They could never provide decent cooling for the chips coupled with their desire to make paper thin devices.

Curiously they managed to figure this out exactly when it became their silicon instead (M1 MacBook Pros were notably thicker and with more cooling capacity than the outgoing Intel ones)

[alt227]

I still believe they purposefully throttled the last gen of intel Macs just to make people have bad memories of them.

[bzzzt]

I presume they were just playing it safe to not let the M1 migration flop. If you're dragging your users through a big migration the last thing you need is complaints about the new hardware...

[scrlk]

They made things even worse with fan curves tuned for silence until the CPU was practically at TjMax.