Request: Fanless Option

[Ferit_Tuncer]

@Animesh_Sahu

That’s what I’m talking about when you disable turbo & go in powersave governor (as you can see in above screenshot with btop monitoring linux kernel compilation: 1.6GHz upper limit), I’ve seen absolute no lag in day-to-day tasks, most of bottleneck is not CPU or GPU these days, but rather network & SSD or Cache performance.

I’m still able to play 2k video without any issue, do multiple task at once… The only thing that may be affected is probably that the compilation time of the software will go high, so if you’re on Gentoo or source-only distro / doing ML on native hardware then only it’ll majorly affect you. Application opening time or bootup time is majorly affected by random reads from secondary disk, its the bottleneck, you can use ZFS or bcachefs as your rootfs to make it faster by a large extent, they use ARC (adaptive replacement cache) to keep things in RAM when possible.

Actually, I believe it’s quite the opposite, in the past memory and storage were very slow so the CPU had to wait for them a lot. Now, thanks to improvements in memories and especially in storage, the CPU does not wait for them for long, and nowadays it’s the single-core performance that matters. Meanwhile, CPU tech did not improve so fast due to hitting the ceiling on single-core. In the past, manufacturers were just keep increasing the processor frequencies. At some point (around 5GHz) they realized they couldn’t keep increasing it, so processor gains diminished and focused on multi-core optimizations.

I have a laptop that scores 1700 on single-thread performance, with 20GB RAM and SSD, and it’s not pleasant for me to work on it.

Regardless of whether it is fast enough or not, it can’t compete with Macbook Air with this performance, not even at half the price.