Hello friends, these past few days I was testing a 15" M2 Macbook Air to see how it would perform for my music production and coding tasks (if you want, you can read about my experience on the Gearspace forum here and here), but I encountered a rather serious problem that led me to return the device:
When creating test projects for audio, whenever resource usage exceeded 75% (in Studio One, in Logic it was much higher due to the poor resource management of this program), and the temperature reached around 85-90 degrees Celsius (which I consider acceptable), after playing for a few minutes, the clock speed started progressively decreasing until the temperature stabilized at around 70-75 degrees Celsius. This resulted in a loss of performance, and the project started glitching, requiring a few seconds to stop before being able to play normally again.
I don't know if there is any sensor that the TG Pro program doesn't display, indicating that it might be overheating, or if Apple has configured this device to be above 80 degrees Celsius for only a few minutes. I hope to understand that a device with the M2 chip and adequate cooling system will not have this problem (for example, the Mac Mini M2).
Can any user of a Mac Mini M2 (regular version, not Pro) confirm if this throttling also occurs on the Mac Mini when it exceeds around 3-4 minutes of usage above 80 degrees Celsius? What I also see is that most people use the device as it comes out of the box and don't use applications like "TG Pro" or "Mac Fans Control" to adjust the cooling curve and prevent the device from reaching a certain temperature. It seems very strange to me that people prefer extreme silence even if it means the device reaches high temperatures, rather than keeping it well-cooled with some fan noise.
Thank you in advance.
When creating test projects for audio, whenever resource usage exceeded 75% (in Studio One, in Logic it was much higher due to the poor resource management of this program), and the temperature reached around 85-90 degrees Celsius (which I consider acceptable), after playing for a few minutes, the clock speed started progressively decreasing until the temperature stabilized at around 70-75 degrees Celsius. This resulted in a loss of performance, and the project started glitching, requiring a few seconds to stop before being able to play normally again.
I don't know if there is any sensor that the TG Pro program doesn't display, indicating that it might be overheating, or if Apple has configured this device to be above 80 degrees Celsius for only a few minutes. I hope to understand that a device with the M2 chip and adequate cooling system will not have this problem (for example, the Mac Mini M2).
Can any user of a Mac Mini M2 (regular version, not Pro) confirm if this throttling also occurs on the Mac Mini when it exceeds around 3-4 minutes of usage above 80 degrees Celsius? What I also see is that most people use the device as it comes out of the box and don't use applications like "TG Pro" or "Mac Fans Control" to adjust the cooling curve and prevent the device from reaching a certain temperature. It seems very strange to me that people prefer extreme silence even if it means the device reaches high temperatures, rather than keeping it well-cooled with some fan noise.
Thank you in advance.
