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Comment by foldr

It generally makes sense for a laptop to allow the CPU to do more work than can be sustainably cooled, since short duration high CPU workloads are common. You could view such a laptop as ‘thermally constrained’, or you could view it as maximizing the performance potential of the chasis by allowing a temporary boost. (Really, the performance of any practical laptop is heavily constrained by considerations of cooling and battery life.)

I think these complaints would make more sense if you specified some specific performance figures that you’d like your laptop to be able to sustain indefinitely. Otherwise you could ‘fix’ the issue just by downclocking the CPU.

parent foldr 4 years ago

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