Re:macOS Big Sur Preview
by fphhotchips on Monday June 22, 2020 @06:25PM
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Yeah, sure, but at least on my Macbook Pro 16, Thunderbolt/USB-C monitors both instantly make the area near the touch bar hot enough so as to be uncomfortable to the touch.
If you're sharing a screen via video conference, you can easily hit 90c, with the CPU throttling hard the whole time.
Re:macOS Big Sur Preview
by philjohn on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:34AM
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That's because the second you plug an external monitor in (at all) it switches off the iGPU and spins up the dGPU on the old 15" and new 16" ... what you're feeling is the dGPU pumping out heat.
If you're sharing a screen via video conference, you can easily hit 90c, with the CPU throttling hard the whole time.