15 points | by kristianp 2 hours ago
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For years at work I've been just using Cinebench as a hand warmer on various Macbooks.
Looking forward to the follow up: How to Quickly Cool Down Your MacBook
Just do the trick in reverse, surely?
yes no > /dev/null
Strap a thermopile and a peltier on that bad boy
How big is the risk of condensation when you bring a cold laptop inside?
All their spec sheets say they support up to x% _non-condensing_ humidity, which I’m guessing is about the dew point?
I just need to build our monorepo
I think any next.js project will do the trick
Needs 2019 in title, this is Intel MacBooks not Apple Silicon.
Won't work on M processors, (un)fortunately.
I recently installed an app to manually activate the fans on my MacBook Pro M1 Pro as I've never been able to trigger them over the past 4+ years. Just to check whether the fans even work (they do).
https://xkcd.com/1172/
sanest emacs user
There really is an xkcd for everything
Honestly m1 was very cool no matter what workload you threw at it but at this point m4 max does get pretty hot even with just web browsing.
I've definitely had my m1 air get uncomfortably hot to touch - particularly right above the keyboard. (While doing developery things)
Another (more useful) option is to render an animation in Blender, or run a local LLM.
Honestly i prefer my macbook frosty
For years at work I've been just using Cinebench as a hand warmer on various Macbooks.
Looking forward to the follow up: How to Quickly Cool Down Your MacBook
Just do the trick in reverse, surely?
Strap a thermopile and a peltier on that bad boy
How big is the risk of condensation when you bring a cold laptop inside?
All their spec sheets say they support up to x% _non-condensing_ humidity, which I’m guessing is about the dew point?
I just need to build our monorepo
I think any next.js project will do the trick
Needs 2019 in title, this is Intel MacBooks not Apple Silicon.
Won't work on M processors, (un)fortunately.
I recently installed an app to manually activate the fans on my MacBook Pro M1 Pro as I've never been able to trigger them over the past 4+ years. Just to check whether the fans even work (they do).
https://xkcd.com/1172/
sanest emacs user
There really is an xkcd for everything
Honestly m1 was very cool no matter what workload you threw at it but at this point m4 max does get pretty hot even with just web browsing.
I've definitely had my m1 air get uncomfortably hot to touch - particularly right above the keyboard. (While doing developery things)
Another (more useful) option is to render an animation in Blender, or run a local LLM.
Honestly i prefer my macbook frosty