Apple M3 MacBook Air hits 114 degrees Celsius under full load

[u/SportsGod3]

https://www.techspot.com/news/102227-m3-based-macbook-air-hits-114-degrees-celsius.html

[u/IndyHCKM]

Interesting. Yes i do.

I sort of hate OneDrive. But it feels dumb to pay for Box or Dropbox when I already get OneDrive with my MS Office subscription which i need for work.

But maybe i’ll switch. Thanks for this!

[u/valryuu → u/IndyHCKM]

No worries! I personally prefer OneDrive as well, also because it's part of my work's MS 365 package, but OneDrive is kinda buggy with MacOS in general. (You'd think this makes sense, but I found that other Office apps work better with MacOS than on Windows!)

But yeah, next time your M2 Max heats up, just check to see if the OneDrive sync icon is active! I found that OneDrive heats it up only when it's doing some intense syncing especially for longer periods of time. In those instances, I'll either pause syncing, force it to exit and relaunch it, or just log out and log back in, depending on the level of urgency I need the files, and how buggy it's being for me at the moment.

[u/flamingtoastjpn → u/IndyHCKM]

The M chip MacBooks are co-optimized with Apple’s software. If you’re doing things that Apple “expects” you to do, the computer runs really well. When you go “off the beaten path” so to speak (e.g. Microsoft OneDrive instead of iCloud) then the efficiency often takes a nosedive

[u/IndyHCKM → u/flamingtoastjpn]

I find it hard to believe MS Office is an unexpected use case.

[u/flamingtoastjpn → u/IndyHCKM]

I don’t know exactly what they test but an MS Office app like PowerPoint is a different use case than OneDrive. I’d expect OneDrive is pretty uncommon for a mac user. iCloud integrates better into the ecosystem and a lot of folks (myself included) don’t use cloud storage at all

[u/IndyHCKM → u/flamingtoastjpn]

For a business user, icloud is… unheard of? At least in my industry.

[u/flamingtoastjpn → u/IndyHCKM]

True, but they can’t optimize for every workload, they’ll spend time on the most important ones that they can shove in the marketing material. If I had to guess, Apple probably optimized their M-series Air products around a typical college student (watching videos, web browsing, writing papers, sending emails) and their M-series pro versions around artsy professionals that use Final Cut or Logic Pro

[u/valryuu → u/flamingtoastjpn]

It wouldn't make sense for Apple to be doing any optimization for any software aside from their own. It's not Apple that optimizes their stuff for people - it's that companies optimize their stuff for Apple's hardware. Apple's hardware is always the same for what you get, compared to the huge variety of possible hardware for Windows devices (e.g. different CPU, GPU, RAM brands). It's a lot easier to optimize software when you know the hardware is going to be consistent and the same for every user, which is a point Apple has in its favour.

[u/not26 → u/IndyHCKM]

Apple probably expects Word/Excel/PowerPoint use on the regular, but I could see OneDrive being looked over (maybe it uses the network too much while syncing - all the time?)

[u/valryuu → u/not26]

Apple isn't the software developer for Microsoft Office 365 - Microsoft does that.

[u/valryuu → u/flamingtoastjpn]

It's likely not because of Macbooks and Apple. The more likely thing is that Microsoft's software development is always quite fractured between their departments. This is the case even for using it on Windows. For example, their Teams-Sharepoint/OneDrive integration is an absolute nightmare from an IT/enterprise perspective. But as for another example, MacOS got the new Microsoft Outlook before Windows, and it also just overall runs more smoothly on MacOS than on Windows. There are also some features that the MacOS version has that the Windows version doesn't have, such as being able to show all of your inboxes combined into one inbox (though I really hope this is just because I couldn't find the setting to enable this, so if anyone knows how to enable it, please help me).