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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by vardump on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:39AM (#23324925)
Personal experience: XPS 15 overheats and becomes extremely slow. Maybe it's a user error...

Touchpad hardware is good, but the software and adjustability... it's nowhere comparable to a Macbook.

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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by 72deluxe on Thursday May 28, 2020 @07:25AM (#23336040)
What does task manager say is causing the CPU to be used so much that it overheats and thermally limits itself?

Have you used Sysinternal's Process Monitor or Process Explorer or any of the tracing tools already built into Windows to see why it's slow?

If you've got some service running behind the scenes and keeping the machine busy, of course it'll be "slow".

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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by vardump on Thursday May 28, 2020 @04:13PM (#23342016)
> Have you used Sysinternal's Process Monitor or Process Explorer or any of the tracing tools already built into Windows to see why it's slow?

Yeah, poked it a bit, took some ETW traces. Couldn't find any good reason for it to behave like that with a low CPU load.

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Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5 by 72deluxe on Thursday May 28, 2020 @08:11PM (#23344733)
This sounds like a challenge!
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