Warm up your MacBook (2019)

I think my last Macbook was Wisconsin-locale instead of California. Closing the lid and putting it to sleep actually caused it to heat up (until the battery died).

For those without spacebar heating?

"This will start 6 threads that each peg your CPU... "

they're doing what to my CPU????

Alternatively, you could try compiling an Xcode project. That should do the trick as well.

For years at work I've been just using Cinebench as a hand warmer on various Macbooks.

Multithreaded:

  seq 1 20 | xargs -Iqq -n1 -P0 yes >/dev/null

How big is the risk of condensation when you bring a cold laptop inside?

All their spec sheets say they support up to x% _non-condensing_ humidity, which I’m guessing is about the dew point?

I'm from California... What is this "cold" you speak of?

I just need to build our monorepo

Looking forward to the follow up: How to Quickly Cool Down Your MacBook

Or you could get a laptop that doesn't have an metal shell, like a thinkpad.

  while true; do openssl speed ecdsap384 -multi 2; done

npm install

Needs 2019 in title, this is Intel MacBooks not Apple Silicon.

Won't work on M processors, (un)fortunately.

Another (more useful) option is to render an animation in Blender, or run a local LLM.

Honestly i prefer my macbook frosty

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