M1 Macs Review - Hackdot

Re:M1 Macs Review by cuillevel3 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @10:15AM (#25150315)

I wondered about that, doesn't it get hot and throttle performance?

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Re:M1 Macs Review by cowmoo728 on Thursday November 19, 2020 @10:34AM (#25150516)

According to Dave2D's youtube review the Air will throttle after 8 minutes of full load. The Pro never throttles.

https://youtu.be/XQ6vX6nmboU

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Re:M1 Macs Review by holstvoogd on Thursday November 19, 2020 @10:57AM (#25150749)

Wow. That is pretty amazing. I have 15" 2018 mbp and it throttles if I look at it wrong ;-)

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Re:M1 Macs Review by e_tm_ on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:18AM (#25150981)

shhh. it will hear you.

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Re:M1 Macs Review by torginus on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:09AM (#25150883)

It does get kind of warm, but it's not uncomfortable, and the throttling is not too bad, after 10 minutes you lose like 10% performance, after which it's solid. Probably the Pro doesn't have that issue.

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Re:M1 Macs Review by rsanheim on Thursday November 19, 2020 @11:18AM (#25150979)

My Air hasn’t gotten warm yet and I’ve been trying to really hammer it while I’ve been setting up my dev env and running benchmarks.

I have not tried Civ 6 late game benchmarks yet tho ;)

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Re:M1 Macs Review by tequila_shot on Thursday November 19, 2020 @10:46AM (#25150652)

+1, I've had a beast of a Lenovo laptop, and though had a great GPU, fans were broken because of which the FPS was capped to <30.

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