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zepolen on Nov 23, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ditching the MacBook Pro for a MacBook Air

MBP heating issues are from the fact that the dedicated GPU doesn't get enough cooling, the frame is too small.

Add https://github.com/0xbb/gpu-switch - run the integrated gpu only - and you will never listen to a fan again, and prolong the life of your MPB.

j45 on Nov 23, 2018 | [–]

It's discouraging to hear the 15" MBP GPU's still have heating/failure issues, I toasted a few 15" MBP GPU's in 2006-2009. Not sure what the point is to have a GPU in a laptop I don't use.

sooheon on Nov 23, 2018 | [–]

The project readme warns it's broken on recent macos versions.

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