MacBook Air 2019

[Bruno_A]

Hi all,

 

I have recently purchased a MacBook Air 2019 with an 8th-gen dual-core Core i5, which is a 7W chip. Despite being a 7W chip, it still produces lots of heat, which I noticed from the beggining, and actually found it to be weird. Despite being a great laptop that I have been quite happily using, I have to admit that the cooling system is utter crap, and if you see one of Louis Rossman's video, you'll understand. The CPU is passively cooled by a small heatsink, which, for such a low-power CPU, it would probably fine, however being in such a small and thin laptop, with no air intake on the bottom, makes for a hot CPU. I have to say, however, I haven't noticed any slowdowns. Anyway, sorry for the pointless "ranting". I'm new to the MacBook scene, and was wondering if there is a way of undervolting the new 8th-gen CPUs, so that they run cooler and the battery lasts longer. I did a quick google research, and there seems to be a popular piece of software called "Volta", which does this, however, it does not work on newer CPUs.

 

Many thanks,

Bruno.

[doomsriker]

5 minutes ago, bruny06 said:

Hi all,

 

I have recently purchased a MacBook Air 2019 with an 8th-gen dual-core Core i5, which is a 7W chip. Despite being a 7W chip, it still produces lots of heat, which I noticed from the beggining, and actually found it to be weird. Despite being a great laptop that I have been quite happily using, I have to admit that the cooling system is utter crap, and if you see one of Louis Rossman's video, you'll understand. The CPU is passively cooled by a small heatsink, which, for such a low-power CPU, it would probably fine, however being in such a small and thin laptop, with no air intake on the bottom, makes for a hot CPU. I have to say, however, I haven't noticed any slowdowns. Anyway, sorry for the pointless "ranting". I'm new to the MacBook scene, and was wondering if there is a way of undervolting the new 8th-gen CPUs, so that they run cooler and the battery lasts longer. I did a quick google research, and there seems to be a popular piece of software called "Volta", which does this, however, it does not work on newer CPUs.

 

Many thanks,

Bruno.

standard apple fair,  beauty than performance

 

  

 

[kelvinhall05]

Next time, get a Thinkpad.

[doomsriker]

2 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Next time, get a Thinkpad.

x390 anybody?

 

 

[kelvinhall05]

Just now, doomsriker said:

x390 anybody?

 

 

Alex is the wrong person to review a Thinkpad. He uses a Surface laptop...clearly he doesn't care about I/O, durability, upgradability/repairability, longevity, etc...

 

OP, look at an X1E2.

[Bruno_A]

13 minutes ago, kelvinhall05 said:

Next time, get a Thinkpad.

Not the answer I was looking for, but thanks. I also own a Huawei Matebook 13 with a quad-core Core i5 8265U, 8 GB of RAM, and a replaceable M.2 NVMe SSD, which is great. It truly is a great machine, and I would pick it over any ThinkPad, any day. I also got it for a good price, obviously a better deal than the MacBook, however, the MacBook has great features, such as the keyboard, which despite there being reports of keyboards failing, not only it doesn't mean mine will, and if it does, Apple does offer a keyboard replacement for the first 4 years. Before then, I will definitely have upgraded.

[Bruno_A]

20 minutes ago, doomsriker said:

standard apple fair,  beauty than performance

 

  

 

I have to agree with you on that. I am not a fanboy, by any means, but I do recognise the great things on my MacBook, as well as the bad things. In my opinion, the OS is great, in things such as the gestures, which I use a lot. I can't say the same, when I was using a Windows 10 Matebook 13; the keyboard is really nice. It doesn't have a lot of travel, which some people hate, but it's very clicky, which I like better, and, the trackpad is amazing. The bad things are the price, obviously, the upgradeability, or lack thereof, and the screen bezels. Being such an expensive machine, and especially because of the fact that Apple likes beauty, it should have smaller bezels. Comparing to the matebook 13, the bezels on the MacBook Air seem bigger than necessary. Ohh, and the cooling is bad.