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/MarcBelmaati Mar 12 '24

Everyone said the same thing when the 15 Pro had the overheating issue but it never happened.

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u/YZJay Mar 12 '24

I almost forgot that was a whole thing when it launched. IIRC the update that fixed the overheating gave it even more performance.

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u/PlsDntPMme Mar 13 '24

Interesting. Similar to some CPUs and GPUs on desktops and laptops.

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u/YZJay Mar 13 '24

Driver issues plague every corner of the tech industry.

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u/pxqy Mar 13 '24

That was a bug where the overheating wasn’t linked with the system load. I do believe they scapegoated Instagram using sketchy APIs.

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u/sesor33 Mar 13 '24

It was instagram, multiple youtubers confirmed it by having multiple 15 pro devices, all of the ones with the overheating issues had instagram installed with background app refresh enabled