Okay. I never said I was. But I also give up. You just want to argue and have no interest in anyone who does not share your irrational outrage. Waste of time.
That’s weird because I have recently changed career focus from an epidemiologist to war logistics expert to electronic engineering design with a focus in thermal systems.
This makes you my new God and I wish to build a statue for you in honor.
Sigh. You're STILL making the mistake that there's power use and 'light productivity'. The world is more complex than that and it's disheartening to see this simplistic view so entrenched.
Which is its design goal. Again, we've gone from being amazed that an Air can outmuscle the last generation Intel MBPs by a lot, to consigning them to only being good for light browsing. Come. On.
this is my favorite part of this whole discussion — when the M1 air came out, people were BLOWN AWAY and talking about how its a "full on pro level machine" that can literally take on anything you throw at it, unless u are like running your own Hollywood movie studio or something
It is a bit silly.
Yes!!!! It’s driving me crazy! The M1 is crazy good, but the M2 is somehow worse? I don’t buy it.
Cannot believe so many people are so stupid as to assume Apple did not have this area of thermal control properly covered. It turns out iFixit and the other youtube grifters were all wrong. And people like you are victims of the grift.
But a clickbait title with THERMAL THROTTLING in caps and a thumbnail of me doing a surprised soyface does numbers!Cannot believe so many people are so stupid as to assume Apple did not have this area of thermal control properly covered. It turns out iFixit and the other youtube grifters were all wrong. And people like you are victims of the grift.
The MacBook Air M2 actually uses an advanced graphite-based heat spreader, using technology made by Panasonic, a pyrolytic graphite sheet with nearly the thermal conductance of diamond, 5 times that of copper, and far more advanced than what is in the M1 based MacBook Air.
Thermal protection sheet (Graphite Sheet (PGS)/PGS applied products/NASBIS) - Panasonic
Product information and news of Thermal protection sheet (Graphite Sheet (PGS)/PGS applied products/NASBIS), Panasonic.industrial.panasonic.com
Yes, the material dismissed by the idiots at iFixit as “black tape” turns out to be one of the most advanced passive heat management systems in any laptop, and you bought their story hook, line, and sinker.
Apple has truly cast pearls before swine here.
Fact check? The Max chip will obviously be more thermally constrained in the 14" than in the 16", but the 14" has widely been lauded as having excellent thermal management. The Pro chip is mostly dead silent.
Yeah but "disappointing" in this context just means something pretty nuanced and outside the likely use cases for these devices.
If it gets as hot while in a Facetime, Teams or Zoom call like with my Mac mini (2018, Intel), I'll send it back. Video conferencing is more than an average use case for a MBA.
No one has shown the M1 MBA getting warm in those use cases. It is only when you do sustained tasks like 8K Renders with filters that use all CPU cores and all GPU cores that it bumps up against its heat dissipation limits and slows down by 10-20% to cool off. Other times it runs cool just like the M1 Air does.
Yep. I have the SOC die average temp (plus cpu & gpu load and mem pressure) for my M1 Air showing at all times on my menu bar. Video conferencing is a trivial workload for this computer.
If you are thinking of adding pads like MaxTech did, that will void your warranty.
Watch the first MaxTech M2 MacBook Air video. There are some clips along with the screws. They demonstrate unclipping them. Just opening your MBA won’t void the warranty unless you damage it.
