How hot does the M2 MBA get? What kind if work is it doing when it gets hot?
Do you find rhe heat annoying or tolerable? Or hardly noticeable?
Do you find rhe heat annoying or tolerable? Or hardly noticeable?
your air is running hot? what apps are you running? & worth checking activity monitor, see what might be 'stressing' your air...Mine is so not hot I literally feel like it isn’t a computer in the traditional sense. I also do basically nothing computationally stressful, but that’s my experience. It was NOT my experience on intel MacBooks!
ha, missed 'not'.... 🤪I said it is not at all hot. It’s very cool.
Why would you do that ridiculous mod when your MBA is NOT overheating?The fact that your Mac is without an active cooling system should explain that.
Still, you may add some fan (internal or external if it's convenient for you) to prevent overheating
A fan in a laptop cooler isn’t that ridiculous if you do very intensive CPU/GPU things occasionally. They are inexpensive and can definitely help cool a passively cooled notebook.Why would you do that ridiculous mod when your MBA is NOT overheating?
I just bought aWhy would you do that ridiculous mod when your MBA is NOT overheating?
Mine is very cool. Two web browsers with over 50 tabs open. Music playing. Youtube videos. Time Machine backups. My former i5 MacBook Air would be howling with fan noise.
How does the user know when throttling occurs? Is there a visual indicator such as a menubar icon or, perhaps, a notification? Is there a fixed threshold--for internal temperature--beyond which throttling occurs? Thank you!I just bought a$15$20 laptop cooler with a couple of fans. When I get it I'll run some tests to see if it reduces or eliminates the M2 MBA throttling. The only conceivable use for me though would be some sort of game. I really don't run many games but if No Mans' Sky is actually released for macOS, I might pick that up.
It really depends what you are doing. The device if throttling should be warm under the center of the laptop. The cpu will lower it's maximum frequency so that it doesn't heat up to a point that would cause thermal damage. You might notice a delay in the responsiveness of your applications and then again you might not even know it is occurring.How does the user know when throttling occurs? Is there a visual indicator such as a menubar icon or, perhaps, a notification? Is there a fixed threshold--for internal temperature--beyond which throttling occurs? Thank you!
How do you find the m2 air to be faster than the m1pro when web browsing? I would have thought the pro-motion etc would have made the 14” feel superior? Do you get lag with 100s of tabs open on the m1pro but not on the m2 air? Is there lag when resizing windows or switching tabs?It really depends what you are doing. The device if throttling should be warm under the center of the laptop. The cpu will lower it's maximum frequency so that it doesn't heat up to a point that would cause thermal damage. You might notice a delay in the responsiveness of your applications and then again you might not even know it is occurring.
I really think the throttling issue is way overblown on the M2 MBA. Of course if you run multiple pro level applications at the same time for an extended period of time or heavy gaming and multiple heavy applications then you are going to have the device throttle. It is not designed for that level of work. However a lot of YouTube reviewers have done just that and I think the most it will throttle after like an hour was 17-30%. You can as others have suggested get a laptop cooler and some people have reusable ice bricks with a towel and that will stop or reduce throttling.
If you don't want a 14" or 16" MBP then the 13" MBP with M2 is better slightly because it has a fan. You can check activity monitor and watch your cpu frequency. If after you are working a bit you notice said drop in frequency for a while then it could be throttling. I believe the temp is around 100 degrees Celsius or around that mark that throttling will occur.
With mine the only time it gets warm is when charging with the fast charger or when running a stress test or benchmark otherwise it is cool or at least not even warm.
Also in my experience for an m series processor having had the M1 13" pro and M1 Pro 14", M1 Pro 16" and M1 Max 16" the air feels just as fast and in some cases like web browsing faster.