An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up

Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by mszcz on Monday July 19, 2021 @03:54AM (#27880225)

If you're looking for a PC that's not a headache to put together, is semi-mobile, powerful and quiet have a look at AMD-based gaming PCs.

I got a Lenovo Legion with 4800H(8/16)/32GB/2T/GTX1650/144Hz a couple of months ago. That's a really sufficiently cooled system. It almost never spins up the fans, it's powerful, has a lot of space, no RGBs and has a super boring, tasteless, anti-theft design that never goes out of style (but the last one is more of a personal preference ;) It's been great.

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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by speed_spread on Monday July 19, 2021 @04:36PM (#27887009)

One eternal problem with gaming laptops and Linux remains the dual-GPU architecture, which is always kind-of-but-not-quite supported. Most often it is easier to forego either the GPU or CPU-video, leaving the overall experience frustrating.

The fact that most (all?) gaming laptops come with NVidia GPUs (requiring closed drivers, unless Nouveau got much better since last time I tried it) doesn't help.

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Re:An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU u... by mszcz on Thursday July 22, 2021 @08:29AM (#27918057)

While I understand that this sucks, I've been running Windows as a primary dev machine for a long time now, so this particular problem doesn't affect me personally.

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