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I’ve used some of the new ones. The Dell 14S is leaps above the company’s previous budget laptops, even if Wildcat Lake isn’t a major performance upgrade. The catch, of course, is that the Neo still does some things better and is the reason the...

The MacBook Neo's CPU has a max sustained power draw of 5W... You aren't heating up much on a 5W draw. The iPhone can pull nearly 10w sustained, and that has substantially less surface area to work with Active cooling isn't required at those...

If memory serves the A18 Pro has an additional impediment to cooling from the RAM effectively being stacked atop the CPU because of how it’s packaged. The throttling is probably managed pretty well given those constraints - it just isn’t meant to...

I'd watched it well before you shared it (I'm subscribed to the channel). The video playback issues during editing would happen even if the Neo was ice-cold; Core Series 3 (Wildcat Lake) has the same issue. A fan or heatsink won't suddenly turn...

Use a CPU Cooler for the GPU, tighten with zip ties, put in a cable organizer box with a 120mm fan for airflow in, and another 120mm fan for airflow out, and a PCIe riser cable. If it's short enough, and you have enough PSU cables, you can use...

Diclaimer: happy owner of an M2 MacBook Air who's never wanted it to be more than it is. And the Neo will attempt to do those things with two big cores and four little ones anyway. The math is pretty similar to what the Apple Silicon Airs do...

What? You have to type harder, I can barely hear you Seriously, shipping the 5800 Ultra like that said more about Nvidia’s stark terror than anything else could have.

A vintage Radeon 5450 would do the trick, or something like the Radeon 8570s you can find on eBay for literally $10 a pop. That's even GCN-level, though in real world performance terms it'll be like low-end integrated video on an FM2+ CPU.