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spupe | 3 years ago

Looks bad, but I wonder whether he got a faulty unit or if it is a widespread problem. It would be odd that Apple and review sites wouldn't pick up on it if it decreases performance to such an extent.

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kasabali|3 years ago

"Review" sites nowadays heavily rely on joke of a benchmark suite called "Geekbench" which only measure burst performance only lasting seconds.

More serious sites like Anandtech only focus on performance of the chip itself (not the product it's in) , so they apply extra cooling measures to eliminate that variable from the equation.

So no, you can't actually rely on mainstream reviews and benchmarks to decide on a specific laptop.