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tht said:

lam92103 said:

Apple doesn't give a shit about thermals. According to them the plebs that cannot purchase a MacBook Pro deserve something that is horribly handicapped. No wonder people are still holding onto their Intel Macs

I think you really have the wrong take here. Apple cares most about thermals out of any OEM out there. It's not even close with perhaps the small shops specializing in silent PCs. And dollars to donuts, the thermal design of Apple's laptops is better than any other OEMs.

The goal of the MBA is to create a thin, long lasting, noise-less laptop. The lack of a fan is a feature, and doesn't demonstrate that they don't care about thermals. Being fanless is the number goal for the MBA. The M2 is about as performant as a 30 to 45 W TDP x86 processor, is housed in a 11 mm thick laptop, doesn't make any fan noise, and lasts longer than competitors. It's the best laptop for basically 90% of the market. It's not even close.

Lots of sturm and drang with the release of the M2, and it's always best to ignore it. Like Maxtech's thermal pad mod. They did it with the M1 MBA too, which kept the temperatures of their M1 and M2 MBA lower for a little longer. Just your usual higher thermal capacitance soaking up a little more heat for a little longer - the pad was in contact with the bottom aluminum panel - before the system got into equilibrium and the chip reached its maximum allowed temperatures. Maxtech seemed proud of this but it's a shit take. They said it themselves: it came at the cost of bottom panel being hotter, and probably too hot to touch. They felt it was ok because they were using the MBA on a desk.

Guess who would not be ok with that? People using it as laptop, on their laps, holding it with their hands. Basically the purpose of a laptop. No OEM would do that. Even gaming laptop OEMs won't do that. This is not Apple not caring about thermals. It's Apple prioritizing thermals for how the product will be used, and they designed it as such.

Random Internet takes are not worth 2¢. They are negative information, a negative 2¢ as it were, and 99.9% of the time is not correct.

StrangeDays said:

rob53 said:

spheric said:

blastdoor said:

I wonder if Lockdown mode is an example of how apple will respond. That is — use enhanced security/privacy modes to allow users to turn all that EU spyware off

What EU spyware? 

Which article have you been reading? Because it certainly hasn't been this one.

Edit: or are you talking about the photo analysis to catch child porn? Apple built that to comply with a UNITED STATES law. 

Don't be naive. What every country wants is the ability to infect every single computing device with nation-owned software to monitor everything a person does. The people who understand this rightfully call it spyware. Nations saying they're trying to reign in tech companies is what they're trying to make people believe while forcing these tech companies to open up their systems to anyone's software is their trojan horse. Read some history to understand what my comment means. As for Apple's lockdown, I'm not sure it will really help stop countries from invading our devices but it is a good attempt. The problem is, Lockdown really locks an iPhone down to the point where it's almost not usable. What this is demonstrating is how far Apple has to locks things down to make them anywhere near secure from state-owned hacking activities. 

Every country wants to install spyware on every device, huh? Sweet completely made up conspiracy lacking in any sustaining evidence, bro. Other than China and Russia, the claim that this is the end goal of all states is simply false.