Warm up your MacBook (2019)(z3ugma.github.io)

36 pointsby kristianp3 hours ago15 comments

dnnddidiej42 minutes ago
For those without spacebar heating?

Multithreaded:

  seq 1 20 | xargs -Iqq -n1 -P0 yes >/dev/null

HDBaseTan hour ago
For years at work I've been just using Cinebench as a hand warmer on various Macbooks.
amomchilov3 hours ago
How big is the risk of condensation when you bring a cold laptop inside?
All their spec sheets say they support up to x% _non-condensing_ humidity, which I’m guessing is about the dew point?
kristianp17 minutes ago
Or you could get a laptop that doesn't have an metal shell, like a thinkpad.
- Cassella minute ago
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jvuygbbkuurx3 hours ago
I just need to build our monorepo
- Onavo2 hours ago
  I think any next.js project will do the trick
reboot812 hours ago
Looking forward to the follow up: How to Quickly Cool Down Your MacBook
- sunrunner2 hours ago
  Just do the trick in reverse, surely?
  yes no > /dev/null
  - why_atan hour ago
    No you have to get the yesses back out
    cat /dev/null | yes
- ge962 hours ago
  Strap a thermopile and a peltier on that bad boy

daneel_w37 minutes ago

  while true; do openssl speed ecdsap384 -multi 2; done

kingjimmyan hour ago
"This will start 6 threads that each peg your CPU... "
they're doing what to my CPU????
- crest30 minutes ago
  Bend over for big tech!
Scubabear682 hours ago
Needs 2019 in title, this is Intel MacBooks not Apple Silicon.
- dunhaman hour ago
  I've found that Baldur's Gate 3 will warm up my apple silicon (everyday tasks do not).
  - Analemma_19 minutes ago
    Is that running on Rosetta 2? Rosetta 2 does (or did, maybe it's removed now) a fine job running x86 code on Apple Silicon, but boy was it cycle-hungry to do it.
    dangus7 minutes ago
    Apple Silicon is not really the simultaneously silent and quiet and cool system it was in the M1 days.
    If you get a MacBook Air it will get quite toasty at throttling limits. After all, it has no fan.
    MacBook Pro models and Apple computers in general tend to favor quiet operation over keeping the laptop surface cool.
    Many PC gaming laptops go out of their way to keep warm air off the keyboard deck with a high willingness to use fan noise to accomplish that since the assumption is that you’re resting your hands on the computer for an extended period and you have headphones on for your game anyway.
- ciupicrian hour ago
  From what I've seen in a couple of videos the newest Neo crap can get to 100 degrees Celsius.
  - rogerrogerran hour ago
    The target market of the "Neo crap" doesn't care and/or isn't pushing workloads that come anywhere near saturating it. It's a laptop that doesn't bend, has a decent screen, has a decent battery, and isn't full of adware.
    ciupicri19 minutes ago
    The article was about warming up a laptop. Neo can do it too.
    rogerrogerr9 minutes ago
    And your comment was calling it crap for some reason. We wouldn’t be having this conversation if you’d left that apparently superfluous word out of your comment.
mark242an hour ago
npm install
1e1a3 hours ago
Another (more useful) option is to render an animation in Blender, or run a local LLM.
moralestapia3 hours ago
Won't work on M processors, (un)fortunately.
- dajonker2 hours ago
  I recently installed an app to manually activate the fans on my MacBook Pro M1 Pro as I've never been able to trigger them over the past 4+ years. Just to check whether the fans even work (they do).
  - woozlewuzzle13 minutes ago
    You could also build Chromium from source. It makes my M1 Max's fans sing.
  - amlutoan hour ago
    You must be using only lame languages like C or Go or Python that aren’t optimized for laptop warming during compilation. Try using a Real Language with a Real Compiler, like C++ or Rust or Swift, and build decent-sized projects using all cores.
    (All joking aside, this is why I have a MacBook Pro. Compilation easily hits the Air’s thermal limits and the performance boost on the Pro with its fan is impressive.)
- mjmas3 hours ago
  https://xkcd.com/1172/
  - nullbyte3 hours ago
    sanest emacs user
  - RAZKOM2 hours ago
    There really is an xkcd for everything
- therein3 hours ago
  Honestly m1 was very cool no matter what workload you threw at it but at this point m4 max does get pretty hot even with just web browsing.
  - gpm3 hours ago
    I've definitely had my m1 air get uncomfortably hot to touch - particularly right above the keyboard. (While doing developery things)
ale3 hours ago
Honestly i prefer my macbook frosty
tithos39 minutes ago
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