Introducing the next generation of Mac

Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by marcolussetti on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:19AM (#25056207)

I wonder how useful they are. I used to have a gaming laptop in the early 2010s and the nicest cooling fan I could find, but it only dropped the temperature down by 2-3 degrees

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by bartvk on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @02:39PM (#25062040)

My suspicion is that they're not useful at all. Once I bought such a cooler pad, and placed a 2011 13" MacBook on it. Then I benchmarked it (i.e. max out the CPU), and measured the sensor "CPU Near". I could not measure a difference between the cooler pad on or off.

I can't remember the brand of the cooler pad, but it had two 10 cm fans.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by lostgame on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:43AM (#25059255)

ºF or ºC? - fair difference there.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by marcolussetti on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:46AM (#25059284)

Goo point. -- Celsius.

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Re:Introducing the next generation of Mac by lostgame on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:41AM (#25067128)

Much more worthwhile, in that case. A couple degrees Fahrenheit means nothing IMHO but a couple degrees Celsius is at least physically noticeable. :)

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