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Re:Apple Q4/2022 by BoorishBears on Thursday October 27, 2022 @10:03PM (#33366666)
And that's how Apple spoils you.

There are M1 machines with fans, but you can rest assured they did the tuning so that you don't end up paying thousands for a machine with poorly thought out fan curves that don't incorporate basic hysteresis.

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Re:Apple Q4/2022 by goosedragons on Friday October 28, 2022 @05:51AM (#33369485)
No. Apple just has their own poorly thought out fan curves just with different priorities. You can see this really easily on the Intel models where they don't even bother to turn on the fan until it hits something dumb like 90C. Quieter sure but I doubt good for long-term life of the hardware. It also had a negative impact on performance.
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Re:Apple Q4/2022 by wildrhythms on Friday October 28, 2022 @06:04AM (#33369553)
My M1 handily outperforms my old hot, loud Intel MBP, and the M1 doesn't even get warm to the touch doing the same workloads that would make the MBP turn into a jet engine. It's not just fan curves.
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