Here’s an interesting update. The computer is still listed as being in Narita Japan, but ups is saying that I’ll get it by 9 pm tomorrow! I’m curious to see whether they’ll say that delivery has been rescheduled, or whether I’ll actually get it sometime tomorrow.
Maybe the OS will get more efficient overtime as well.
Totally not impressed with what was done. As I mentioned there, the warrantee was broken, which is something Apple can tell. Is that worth it? Not really. From the temp measurements he made the unit ran quite a bit hotter. why? Possibly heat was removed from the chip and moved to the case. Maybe not. But other components can now be hotter, if heat was moved that way, and their lifetimes shortened.
if someone needs the slightly higher performance this mod offers, dangerously, then spending the extra $300 for the Macbook Pro is a much better, and safer option.
Maybe the OS will get more efficient overtime as well.
Totally not impressed with what was done. As I mentioned there, the warrantee was broken, which is something Apple can tell. Is that worth it? Not really. From the temp measurements he made the unit ran quite a bit hotter. why? Possibly heat was removed from the chip and moved to the case. Maybe not. But other components can now be hotter, if heat was moved that way, and their lifetimes shortened.
if someone needs the slightly higher performance this mod offers, dangerously, then spending the extra $300 for the Macbook Pro is a much better, and safer option.
The goal it's to see whether the M1 could maintain its CPU frequency under a passive solution, doesn't mean I'm doing it right away. I'll wait to see whether the software is matured.
That 15% could be more advantageous to many Ryzen laptops.
Maybe the OS will get more efficient overtime as well.
Totally not impressed with what was done. As I mentioned there, the warrantee was broken, which is something Apple can tell. Is that worth it? Not really. From the temp measurements he made the unit ran quite a bit hotter. why? Possibly heat was removed from the chip and moved to the case. Maybe not. But other components can now be hotter, if heat was moved that way, and their lifetimes shortened.
if someone needs the slightly higher performance this mod offers, dangerously, then spending the extra $300 for the Macbook Pro is a much better, and safer option.
The goal it's to see whether the M1 could maintain its CPU frequency under a passive solution, doesn't mean I'm doing it right away. I'll wait to see whether the software is matured.
That 15% could be more advantageous to many Ryzen laptops.
Unless you’re doing really long form video rendering, the 15% drop in performance seen after a few minutes isn’t that much. A ten minute render will see almost no performance increase. A 20 minute render might see a two minute improvement. The first 10 minutes might see 30 seconds. It’s not worth tinkering around with a new machine.
Maybe the OS will get more efficient overtime as well.
Totally not impressed with what was done. As I mentioned there, the warrantee was broken, which is something Apple can tell. Is that worth it? Not really. From the temp measurements he made the unit ran quite a bit hotter. why? Possibly heat was removed from the chip and moved to the case. Maybe not. But other components can now be hotter, if heat was moved that way, and their lifetimes shortened.
if someone needs the slightly higher performance this mod offers, dangerously, then spending the extra $300 for the Macbook Pro is a much better, and safer option.
The goal it's to see whether the M1 could maintain its CPU frequency under a passive solution, doesn't mean I'm doing it right away. I'll wait to see whether the software is matured.
That 15% could be more advantageous to many Ryzen laptops.
Unless you’re doing really long form video rendering, the 15% drop in performance seen after a few minutes isn’t that much. A ten minute render will see almost no performance increase. A 20 minute render might see a two minute improvement. The first 10 minutes might see 30 seconds. It’s not worth tinkering around with a new machine.
I can live with slightly throttling for being fanless, meanwhile 11.1 update could be better optimized. I'll give it a try once I got mine (which is still "Processed").
Not like I'd want to trade external temps with performance.
Does anyone have experience with expercom? Do they really take at least 3 weeks to get it processed?
I’ve never seen anything like this before. I’ve bought a lot of computers from Apple from their site, and from their app. It’s never been more than three days for processing. This time, I ordered on November 17th, and it’s just today, this morning, that I got a message that my Macbook Pro was shipped, and that I’d get it by the 17th, rather than the 10th as originally stated.
at least it’s in the way and I can start tracking its worldwide travels.
It seems the average of our posters are 22-24 days, no longer than 4 weeks (28 days).
My spec is 8/7/16GiB/1TB, it should be delivered faster than the top spec. I’m uncertain whether I’ll see it this year.
Given how fast the tech is advancing, the least I want to see it’s arriving too late.
I ordered the base Air on Nov. 12 (via Adorama) and not a peep from Apple yet on shipping. Hope it gets here by Christmas since it's a gift!
Wow. I took advantage of a Cyber Monday promotion at Adorama for the configuration I wanted (16GB/7Core GPU/512GB). Hopefully I get mine before January 8 (by when I need to return the model I've been using). Did they submit the drop-ship order to Apple November 12?
I just got notice that it shipped today!
I ordered my 16GB Ram 256GB HD Mini on Dec 31st from Adorama, it's good to see they notify you when Apple ships it. They said the 3rd week of January so hopefully it will ship this week.
I hope this doesn't also delay the release of the 16 inch MBP. My wife's current MBP has a speaker issue so would love to replace it with a new 16 inch unit.
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M1 Air with Thermal Pad Mod
Maybe the OS will get more efficient overtime as well.if someone needs the slightly higher performance this mod offers, dangerously, then spending the extra $300 for the Macbook Pro is a much better, and safer option.
That 15% could be more advantageous to many Ryzen laptops.
Not like I'd want to trade external temps with performance.
My spec is 8/7/16GiB/1TB, it should be delivered faster than the top spec. I’m uncertain whether I’ll see it this year.
Given how fast the tech is advancing, the least I want to see it’s arriving too late.
I ordered my 16GB Ram 256GB HD Mini on Dec 31st from Adorama, it's good to see they notify you when Apple ships it. They said the 3rd week of January so hopefully it will ship this week.