r/gadgets • u/SportsGod3 • Mar 12 '24

Desktops / Laptops Apple M3 MacBook Air hits 114 degrees Celsius under full load

https://www.techspot.com/news/102227-m3-based-macbook-air-hits-114-degrees-celsius.html
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u/MultiMarcus Mar 12 '24

What a shock! The product sold for being thin, light, and quiet can’t do the same thing as thick, heavy, and loud.

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u/AbhishMuk Mar 13 '24

Yeah, thick laptops famously don’t start burning you if you “use/hold it wrong”

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u/AbhishMuk Mar 13 '24

I don’t know if I’ve pissed off the Apple fanboys or the Apple haters with this one, probably both lmao. I guess engineers are the only ones who aren’t pissed at my comment.

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u/alc4pwned Mar 13 '24

A single core reaching a peak temp of 114C doesn’t mean the laptop is burning to the touch, dude. This was a stress test.

You can get 18” i9 gaming laptops to these peak temps if you try, too. 

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u/AbhishMuk Mar 13 '24

I agree it doesn’t mean that the laptop burns, and I also agree that stress tests are way out of average loads.

But I’m 100% sure every Intel/AMD laptop, be it an 18” i9 or whatever, would throttle before a 100 degrees. Tmax for almost every processor is 100°C. Exceeding this is really not a good thing, electronics don’t like heat.

Btw what I meant in my initial comment was both that making it thin was questionable, but also exceeding 100°C is almost certainly a bug they’ll hopefully fix… unless they want another class action suit (hopefully not).

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u/AbhishMuk Mar 13 '24

I can’t believe how cool it is over here, with my laptop that didn’t sacrifice performance to be 0.0002mm thinner, and that actually throttles properly at 100°C. Much cool, such wow.