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kingjimmy 5 hours ago [-]
"This will start 6 threads that each peg your CPU... "
they're doing what to my CPU????
crest 4 hours ago [-]
Bend over for big tech!
dnnddidiej 4 hours ago [-]
For those without spacebar heating?
mrtksn 3 hours ago [-]
They broke that workflow in a recent update. Software these days is horrendous
amomchilov 6 hours ago [-]
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?
ericpauley 4 hours ago [-]
The uncomfortable fact about the mentioned Wisconsin winters is that inside dew point tends to be quite low.
HDBaseT 5 hours ago [-]
For years at work I've been just using Cinebench as a hand warmer on various Macbooks.
hakkoru 3 hours ago [-]
I always enjoyed using the power brick to warm up
waterhouse 5 hours ago [-]
Multithreaded:
seq 1 20 | xargs -Iqq -n1 -P0 yes >/dev/null
jvuygbbkuurx 6 hours ago [-]
I just need to build our monorepo
Onavo 6 hours ago [-]
I think any next.js project will do the trick
reboot81 6 hours ago [-]
Looking forward to the follow up: How to Quickly Cool Down Your MacBook
sunrunner 6 hours ago [-]
Just do the trick in reverse, surely?
yes no > /dev/null
why_at 5 hours ago [-]
No you have to get the yesses back out
cat /dev/null | yes
ge96 6 hours ago [-]
Strap a thermopile and a peltier on that bad boy
jerlam 3 hours ago [-]
I think my last Macbook was Wisconsin-locale instead of California. Closing the lid and putting it to sleep actually caused it to heat up (until the battery died).
splittydev 3 hours ago [-]
Alternatively, you could try compiling an Xcode project. That should do the trick as well.
Hobadee 3 hours ago [-]
I'm from California... What is this "cold" you speak of?
int0x29 3 hours ago [-]
The Donner Party begs to differ
kristianp 4 hours ago [-]
Or you could get a laptop that doesn't have an metal shell, like a thinkpad.
Cassell 4 hours ago [-]
they often have a magnesium bottom shell
daneel_w 4 hours ago [-]
while true; do openssl speed ecdsap384 -multi 2; done
mark242 5 hours ago [-]
npm install
Scubabear68 6 hours ago [-]
Needs 2019 in title, this is Intel MacBooks not Apple Silicon.
dunham 4 hours ago [-]
I've found that Baldur's Gate 3 will warm up my apple silicon (everyday tasks do not).
Analemma_ 4 hours ago [-]
Is that running on Rosetta 2? Rosetta 2 does (or did, maybe it's removed now) a fine job running x86 code on Apple Silicon, but boy was it cycle-hungry to do it.
dangus 4 hours ago [-]
Apple Silicon is not really the simultaneously silent and quiet and cool system it was in the M1 days.
If you get a MacBook Air it will get quite toasty at throttling limits. After all, it has no fan.
MacBook Pro models and Apple computers in general tend to favor quiet operation over keeping the laptop surface cool.
Many PC gaming laptops go out of their way to keep warm air off the keyboard deck with a high willingness to use fan noise to accomplish that since the assumption is that you’re resting your hands on the computer for an extended period and you have headphones on for your game anyway.
ciupicri 5 hours ago [-]
From what I've seen in a couple of videos the newest Neo crap can get to 100 degrees Celsius.
rogerrogerr 5 hours ago [-]
The target market of the "Neo crap" doesn't care and/or isn't pushing workloads that come anywhere near saturating it. It's a laptop that doesn't bend, has a decent screen, has a decent battery, and isn't full of adware.
ciupicri 4 hours ago [-]
The article was about warming up a laptop. Neo can do it too.
rogerrogerr 4 hours ago [-]
And your comment was calling it crap for some reason. We wouldn’t be having this conversation if you’d left that apparently superfluous word out of your comment.
inventor7777 3 hours ago [-]
How does the Neo getting to 100°C make it crap? By that logic, aren't all older Intel/x86 chips crap? If anything, I find it impressive that a small laptop CPU can do 100°C without a problem...my i7-7700T M710qs hit 75°C and throttle within a minute if I use a tool like y-cruncher or stress-ng. To be fair, totally different purpose.
moralestapia 6 hours ago [-]
Won't work on M processors, (un)fortunately.
dajonker 6 hours ago [-]
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).
3 hours ago [-]
asdff 3 hours ago [-]
I get them going full blast in 2 minutes from cities skylines.
amluto 5 hours ago [-]
You must be using only lame languages like C or Go or Python that aren’t optimized for laptop warming during compilation. Try using a Real Language with a Real Compiler, like C++ or Rust or Swift, and build decent-sized projects using all cores.
(All joking aside, this is why I have a MacBook Pro. Compilation easily hits the Air’s thermal limits and the performance boost on the Pro with its fan is impressive.)
woozlewuzzle 4 hours ago [-]
You could also build Chromium from source. It makes my M1 Max's fans sing.
tom_ 3 hours ago [-]
I left my Mac Studio running at 100% CPU on all cores for 14 hours, and the case ended up noticeably warm to the touch. It is possible!
they're doing what to my CPU????
All their spec sheets say they support up to x% _non-condensing_ humidity, which I’m guessing is about the dew point?
If you get a MacBook Air it will get quite toasty at throttling limits. After all, it has no fan.
MacBook Pro models and Apple computers in general tend to favor quiet operation over keeping the laptop surface cool.
Many PC gaming laptops go out of their way to keep warm air off the keyboard deck with a high willingness to use fan noise to accomplish that since the assumption is that you’re resting your hands on the computer for an extended period and you have headphones on for your game anyway.
(All joking aside, this is why I have a MacBook Pro. Compilation easily hits the Air’s thermal limits and the performance boost on the Pro with its fan is impressive.)