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Re:Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review by izacus on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:05AM (#14947518)
Unfortunately that seems to be the staple of all modern thin laptops :(

My top spec 15" touchbar MacBook Pro happily locks it's 2.9GHZ CPU to just 1.2GHz after less than two minutes of running anything intensive (including games) and gets too hot to hold in the lap.

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Re:Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review by jsjohnst on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:14AM (#14947567)
There's something wrong with your laptop, the new MBPs shouldn't do that in my experience. I'd recommend visiting a Genius Bar near you!
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Re:Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon review by izacus on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:17AM (#14947600)
All of the laptops do that when they reach thermal limit. You can see that behaviour with Intel's power gadget.

(And yes, pattern appears on all MacBooks we have in the company, just at different points. The 2016 locks down the CPU when it reaches about 85 degress C. Even some new iMacs do the same due to inadequate cooling.)

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