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I see. I personally am a PC user and I have a habit of controlling the throttle manually (it's not necessary but easy and handy). I have been doing this for almost 20 years, using handy 3-rd party panel applets and system's (both Linux and Windows) built-in tools. So I'm surprised to learn MacBooks still don't allow manual throttle control. I usually prefer to keep my thermal regime below of what the vendors pre-define.


All intel MacBooks I’ve used allowed controlling the fans manually, at least.

It’s not relevant for the M1 Air since it has no fans, of course.


I don't mean controlling the fans. I mean voluntarily throttling down the frequency of the CPU (and telling it it should not up-throttle even when the load goes high) so the computer actually stays cold even without the fans.


Sure, you could do that too at least on Intel ones. Generally it makes sense to do it indirectly with the fans.

It’s really not needed on the M1. The only time my Air got warm was in a game.




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