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benyben123

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Sep 22, 2013
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Hi!

I am currently travelling with a friend. She's not very techy (but loves her iPhone and MBP).

Anyways, we were going over some preparations for work stuff, and we needed to watch a few YouTube vids on the hotel lobby.

Her fans are literally SCREAMING (!) while playing 1080p.

I was so surprised by I stopped everything (I know, I am crazy) and had to figure out what's running on her device.

She does have a few chrome extensions, but other than that - nothing unusual.

I opened up the Resource Monitor (mind you - I am not a mac user), and tried to figure out if there's something that's killing her CPU in the background. But couldn't detect anything weird (BTW - why is the Resource Monitor showing ABOVE 100% utilization of processed - that was odd).

So yes, it's Chrome.

She's running the latest MacOS (forgot the name, excuse me - Big Sur, is it?)

Is this how it is with these macs? Or is something off with her machine?

Had to share this. Thank you.
 
I guess everyone is drooling over the new new MBPs so no one cares about the older models (lol)
 
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