3 posts tagged ‘MacBook Air’

• Mac Liquid Detection

  mjtsai, Jan 9, 2024

  Filipe Espósito (via Hacker News): macOS Sonoma 14.1 includes a new system daemon named “liquiddetectiond,” which, as the name suggests, can identify when the computer has been exposed to liquids. More specifically, this daemon runs in the background to collect liquid detection analysis from each USB-C port on the Mac.[…]While Apple may eventually implement an […]

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• The MacBook Air Gap

  mjtsai, Dec 7, 2023

  Joe Rosensteel: Why do I care about the “Pro” chip so much? Despite the name the Pro is really the middle chip, but there’s no middle laptop for it. The base M2 and M3 can be configured with more RAM (to a point) but they can’t be configured with extra ports, or even drive more […]

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• AirJet

  mjtsai, Nov 29, 2023

  Roman Loyola (via Hacker News): Since the MacBook Air doesn’t have a fan for the SoC, its performance will throttle down during processor-intensive work to maintain a proper operating temperature. The M2 13-inch MacBook Pro, on the other hand, has a fan that expels excessive heat so the chip can keep chugging along. The AirJet […]

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