> thermal throttling under sustained heavy load
replyThis gets mentioned a lot, but I do quite a bit of dev work on my M4 MBA and have never even felt it get warm. Sustained heavy loads are extremely rare with how quick this thing is.
And the fact that there is no annoying fan noise ever is just priceless.
replyWith the way most consumer laptops have their fan curves set, you open a new web page and get an annoying ramp up. It is not just a hardware thing, but mostly a self inflicted wound of having a fan curve that is way too aggressive.
Even if it had fans. If they are like the Pro, you won’t hear them. I did extraction with LLMs for a long time to the point where they came on and I had to get my ear close to them to confirm they were on
replyIf it's not aggressive then quickly laptop will be too hot to touch. For instance, I did tune the fan on my friend's laptop so that it wouldn't be waking up everyone for light browsing, but then it was getting uncomfortably hot. None of such issues on Macs.
replyHow long are your compile times?
replyFairly short, I'm a Go developer generally working with terraform and microservices. I'd expect some throttling if you're doing 3+ minute compiles, I think. But I think the problem is overblown by the tech video reviewer population that regularly does extremely intensive workloads.
replyI wouldn't call my personal project "heavy load", but I have a cross-platform C++ project that I am developing on both a Windows gaming PC and a 2020 M1 macbook air.
replyI use clang to compile on both machines. The M1 mac has noticeably faster compile times.
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reply> for the general consumer
replylinux does not apply here. General consumer doesn’t even know what linux is.
Are the think pads at $1000 crappy?
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