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Apple’s devices generally have no or very underpowered thermal solutions; but it also partly regulates battery life.

(Seriously, they rely on air cooling for Neo and MBA — these chips hit 105deg easily and throttle, intentionally)

Adding a thermal pad to a Neo or MacBook Air gives significant boosts peak and sustained performance; whether in benchmarks or real world video renders; but it also reduces your battery life by a little, as there’s less thermal throttling forcing wattage down.

And no, the battery is not connected to the chassis (heatsink), it doesn’t have increased temps.



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