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It is the chip causing the runaway thermals. Yes Apple could have gone crazy with fans or water cooling, but just like the PowerPC to Intel Core transition, the execution performance per watt is what this is about.

You can tell even more so on the massive battery life increase. That electricity being burned so quickly on the Intel chip is translated into increased thermal output as well. TANSTAAFL

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The last gen MacBook air disagrees. There is no reason that thing should throttle. My unbranded clevo 9th gen i7 does not throttle and that has a lot higher tdp than the 9w of the base MB air.

Sure, my laptop sounds like a spaceship when I'm compiling, but at least I am getting the advertised core clocks.

Edit: which is why I'm looking twice at the new MBP :) if only it would run Linux.

As well as the macbook using the entire case as an aluminium heatsink

The newer ones might, but the older ones seem to have the worst thermal solution of just about any modern laptop if that Linus Tech Tips video is to be believed.

If I opened my computer that was thermal throttling and found that I would demand a refund. An undersized heatsink that wasn't making proper contact to the die. With a fan that 1. Isn't sucking air in from anywhere. And 2. Isn't blowing anything over the heat sink.

"Think different" as in "be dumb". Or smart; Because that makes their new computers that are properly amazing look even better in comparison.

Edit: paste mistake. the video link is here. Can't edit the original commet. https://youtu.be/MlOPPuNv4Ec

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