I am really chuffed with my 16. I got it all set up and prepped for use last night when it arrived, but nothing beyond getting an OS on it (went with bazzite to experiment with an immutable distro) and doing some initial system prep and setup (getting a few things installed via brew, which I had to enable in order to use) and trying to figure out why I didn’t have any sound (the sound profile was wrong and didn’t show any speakers until I stumbled upon a profile that worked)
This morning though, I got Steam logged in and couldn’t think of how to get a good idea of the gaming potential available, so I fired up Cyberpunk 2077 to run its benchmark.
When I launched the game the fans started spinning and I thought “oh, that’s what people meant when it’s loud, that is a little crazy!” Then the speed ramped up and the fans got louder and I was thinking “oh my! I’m suddenly feeling like I’m sitting inside an aircraft spinning up it’s engines for takeoff!” And then, the fans ramped up to max speed and I woke up the sleeping baby beside me. I just had to laugh, started the benchmark running and got on with dad duties.
Yes, the fans are loud and I could definitely feel the heat coming out of the sides of the vents. I’ve taken a mental note, don’t take it to the library and start playing demanding games!
Later in the afternoon I ran some more benchmarks and I’m quite happy with the ~45-50 FPS on a slightly tweaked medium/high setting without Ray tracing.
Next task is to run some proper and more scientific benchmarking between the laptop and my main gaming desktop, but that will happen on Thursday when I next expect to have some downtime.
Was anyone else caught out by the volume of the fans when they spin up to full speed?