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> As long as temperature is kept in check, the silicon will not throttle or not limit itself in terms of power draw.

Apple laptops has, for as long as I know, had issues with just thermals. Sometimes they get so hot you can't even have them in your lap, so they are just "tops" at that point.

Has this issue been solved with these new models?

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This wasn't really a _huge_ problem if you didn't need fast graphics until the 2016 15"es. With the switch to Ice Lake, they had to add a discrete GPU even to the base model of the 15" (due to lack of appropriate GPUs in Intel's bigger mobile chips in that generation), and things got very bad.

I've got a personal 13" 2016 MBP, and a work 15" one. The 13" is _fine_; it doesn't show significant thermal throttling in normal use. The 15"... not so much.

I had every model of the MBP that was released between 2012-2016 and they consistently got too warm to have in my lap, every single one of them. Some of them even when just browsing the web. Fresh install every time I got a new model. After that I simply got tired of not being able to use my laptop as a laptop and jumped ship.

(Er, Skylake, not Ice Lake)

Since M1 is designed to low power (but still impressive performance), it's unsure that M1 Max machine getting very hotter like Intel era or not. It uses 145W AC adapter so I suspect they getting very hotter if it utilized extremely.

It was solved with M1 last year

The m1 macs do not have this problem, they draw a fraction of the power of the old laptops even when boosting.

Yes

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