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To be fair isn’t this probably the case with just about every laptop? Kit it out with some crazy totally impractical cooling setup and you can squeeze out a bit

To be fair isn’t this probably the case with just about every laptop? Kit it out with some crazy totally impractical cooling setup and you can squeeze out a bit more performance. Even after all the craziness they edged out enough performer to detect it on a stress test but probably not enough to materially impact user experience. This video sort of misses the point that real-world design is balancing multiple factors, not just over-optimizing one factor at the cost of others. People don’t buy a MacBook Air because their looking for the fastest processor performance processor. That’s not the point of the product or the market it’s made for.

devxpy 6y ago
Hmm, fair point, but I do expect the CPU and the fan to at least be to be connected! The machine quickly jumps to 100 degrees on load, which is something I do care about, from a usability perspective. I have to regularly turn on the aircon to make the keyboard on my MacBook Pro even usable -- something I did not have to do on a ThinkPad T440p. And then there's the chance of damaging internal components because of the sustained high heat over a long time. I think the intention of the video, initially, was to "squeeze out a bit more performance.", but it ended up demonstrating some arguably obvious oversights in the thermal solution of a rather expensive machine.