Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by Gigachad on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @07:44AM
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I had a 2019 i5 MacBook and the fans would be blasting and the thing still roasting hot. It’s incredible how just one year later they released something revolutionary
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by bsder on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @12:25PM
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I'll scream about Apple's bad practices any day of the week, but I used to go out of my way to configure my Macbook Pro's with max RAM, upgraded SSD, and an i5 specifically because that meant my fans were never audible.
Yeah, everything i7 was a thermal problem, but that wasn't unique to Apple. And the i9 systems were laughable. However, with an i5, I never had noticable thermal issues.
If you're having thermal issues with an i5, something specific to your computer is broken.
Now, my daily driver is a Lenovo Carbon X1 7th Gen. I'm quite happy, but I did the same thing. Big RAM, big SSD, and a reasonable i5. I never hear a fan.
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by Gigachad on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @05:09PM
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I don’t think anything was broken with this MacBook. It was the 13” one and I had to run docker which just made it hot all the time. Now I do an even heavier load on the 13” m1 and the thing is cold while being so much faster.
Intel's approach of "just send more power through the chip to make it faster" is definitely worse than Apple's own chips, but Apple has neutered their laptop CPUs for years. Had they gone with a modern cooling solution, the difference in heat wouldn't be so noticeable.