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Do the Intel MBPs actually thermal throttle any faster than similar Windows laptops? As I recall the thermal performance on something like the XPS 13 isn’t much better.

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The XPS throttles. Which is pretty amazing considering it is targeted at getting work done. My 9th Feb i7 no-brand clevo manages to not throttle unless I max out both CPU and GPU. Of course, I have set the fan to ramp up to max instead of throttling, but neither the XPS nor mbp has that option.

Which is atrocious. I'd rather sacrifice battery for better cooling if it means I can actually use whatever fancy processor I have purchased.

> Of course, I have set the fan to ramp up to max instead of throttling, but neither the XPS nor mbp has that option.

There are various tools for doing this on MacOS. iStat Menu definitely does it, but I believe there are some free ones, too.

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