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MacBook Neo

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Someone in China successfully modded the Neo with 1TB of storage. No firmware update required so I guess it's a similar brand of NAND chip.

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Finally got to watch a few reviews and what I got from them was...

-Easy to cap out memory and start memory swapping
-thermal throttles almost instantly. 20-30 seconds into benchmarks thermal throttling already kicking in. No thermal pads even connecting it to the body or active heatsink

I'd be tempted to take the board out of one and just slap a heatsink on it as a little home lab experiment but nothing I saw convinced me it is worth grabbing.
 
Izerous said:
Finally got to watch a few reviews and what I got from them was...

-Easy to cap out memory and start memory swapping
-thermal throttles almost instantly. 20-30 seconds into benchmarks thermal throttling already kicking in. No thermal pads even connecting it to the body or active heatsink

I'd be tempted to take the board out of one and just slap a heatsink on it as a little home lab experiment but nothing I saw convinced me it is worth grabbing.
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The question is , is that testing well above normal use case scenarios?
 
crazyea said:
The question is , is that testing well above normal use case scenarios?
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Well below what I'd ever ask from it. I'm impressed by how little power it used but just like the last macbook pro I had the performance isn't helpful if it is constantly thermal throttled. That MacBook Pro was often throttled by 50-75%
 
Marzipan said:
was it an Intel or ARM based MBP?
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Intel i7 (don't recall exact sku/generation) the i9 was way worse the keyboard area would get hit enough to burn you and still throttle just as bad.

Neo during take apart looked to have NO active cooling.
 
In talking with with a friend that did actually pick up a couple for his office. So far he is actually quite happy with them but he has different requirements than I do. The thermals and memory limits are not a problem for his needs like they are for me. It actually hit the needs of some of his staff almost perfectly, I just don't fall in the target market at all.

Also being A series not M series probably can't just hijack these and install linux yet
 
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Izerous said:
In talking with with a friend that did actually pick up a couple for his office. So far he is actually quite happy with them but he has different requirements than I do. The thermals and memory limits are not a problem for his needs like they are for me. It actually hit the needs of some of his staff almost perfectly, I just don't fall in the target market at all.

Also being A series not M series probably can't just hijack these and install linux yet
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has anyone applied thermal paste to see how much of a difference that makes for temperatures?
 
Marzipan said:
has anyone applied thermal paste to see how much of a difference that makes for temperatures?
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At the end of the day it's an iPhone 16 shoved into a laptop body so it really wouldn't take much but I didn't find anyone that attempted to modify them when I looked. Like a raspberry pi sized heatsink and a tiny fan would probably be far more than enough.
 
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