Zimeng Xiong's Weblog2 posts tagged "Hardware"
2025
Unifying my computing
Every day I shuffle between a 15" MacBook Air for school, a Linux workstation at my desk, and a 5080 server for anything that might make my laptop break a sweat.
[... 660 words]The Macbook Air throttles a lot
Without a fan and with summer slowly ramping up, I often find my M2 MacBook Air 15" heating up and becoming hot to the touch while building Xcode projects or running CAD software. I wanted to measure its actual performance impact and see how effective a simple solution would be.