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Re:The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable by Dave_Rosenthal on Friday June 15, 2012 @12:34PM (#4117324)
No, the first-order model is that power consumption is quadratic with voltage, and linear with frequency.
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Re:The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable by bnegreve on Sunday June 17, 2012 @03:01PM (#4123546)
Ok, but isn’t increasing the voltage required to keep the transistors stable as you increase the frequency ?
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