Warm up your MacBook (2019)

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31 points | by kristianp 2 hours ago

14 comments

  • dnnddidiej 19 minutes ago
    For those without spacebar heating?
  • HDBaseT 1 hour ago
    For years at work I've been just using Cinebench as a hand warmer on various Macbooks.
  • waterhouse 49 minutes ago
    Multithreaded:

      seq 1 20 | xargs -Iqq -n1 -P0 yes >/dev/null
  • amomchilov 2 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?

  • daneel_w 13 minutes ago

      while true; do openssl speed ecdsap384 -multi 2; done
  • reboot81 2 hours ago
    Looking forward to the follow up: How to Quickly Cool Down Your MacBook
    • sunrunner 1 hour ago
      Just do the trick in reverse, surely?

        yes no > /dev/null
      • why_at 44 minutes ago
        No you have to get the yesses back out

          cat /dev/null | yes
    • ge96 2 hours ago
      Strap a thermopile and a peltier on that bad boy
  • jvuygbbkuurx 2 hours ago
    I just need to build our monorepo
    • Onavo 2 hours ago
      I think any next.js project will do the trick
  • kingjimmy 33 minutes ago
    "This will start 6 threads that each peg your CPU... "

    they're doing what to my CPU????

    • crest 6 minutes ago
      Bend over for big tech!
  • Scubabear68 2 hours ago
    Needs 2019 in title, this is Intel MacBooks not Apple Silicon.
    • dunham 26 minutes ago
      I've found that Baldur's Gate 3 will warm up my apple silicon (everyday tasks do not).
    • ciupicri 40 minutes ago
      From what I've seen in a couple of videos the newest Neo crap can get to 100 degrees Celsius.
      • rogerrogerr 30 minutes 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.
  • mark242 51 minutes ago
    npm install
  • 1e1a 2 hours ago
    Another (more useful) option is to render an animation in Blender, or run a local LLM.
  • moralestapia 2 hours ago
    Won't work on M processors, (un)fortunately.
    • dajonker 1 hour 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).
      • amluto 52 minutes 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.)

    • mjmas 2 hours ago
      • nullbyte 2 hours ago
        sanest emacs user
      • RAZKOM 2 hours ago
        There really is an xkcd for everything
    • therein 2 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.
      • gpm 2 hours ago
        I've definitely had my m1 air get uncomfortably hot to touch - particularly right above the keyboard. (While doing developery things)
  • ale 2 hours ago
    Honestly i prefer my macbook frosty
  • tithos 15 minutes ago
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