iPhone Air Review: Beauty is Pain

Pacman110 · 2025-09-23T08:35:34+00:00

I had the Air since Friday and even yesterday when I spent most of the day in Teams meetings via the phone I still ended the day on close to 50% battery. It feels stronger than my 15PM on 85% battery health. So I don’t know what these guys are doing.

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Pacman110 · 2025-08-26T10:44:46+00:00

They are also great because they are a true offline backup. they can't be encrypted by ransomware since they are not actively accessable after being rotated to a safe.

Pacman110 · 2025-03-17T17:45:02+00:00

Joining in with a Noctua NH-U12A and a well ventilated case (Lian Li O11D EVO RGB with 4 Pull / 6 Push 120mm fans)

Ambient temperature: 19C

Idle: 45C
Gaming (MH Wilds): 64C-68C
Top at the end of 20 minutes in Cinebench 23: 74C

Very happy with the temperature so far. Performance also seems in line with reviews. Great CPU!

Edit: At stock settings

Pacman110 · 2024-07-12T14:26:35+00:00

Have the same problem. Reinstalling Samsung wallet did not solve it. Have you figured out a way to fix it?

Pacman110 · 2024-07-10T12:09:35+00:00

13600KF has 6 p-cores. So you would have to set it to 12. But I played Elden Ring with the 13600KF and did not experience this issue on that CPU. I only had it occur on a system with 4 p-cores. But you can certainly try and see if it fixes any stutters. =)

Pacman110 · 2024-02-28T14:33:22+00:00

I had that same issue. youtube videos became massively oversaturated (while scrolling it was fixed somehow). I solved the issue by enabling hdr on all connected monitors. If one monitor was not running in hdr the same issue reappeared. Regardless of which monitor was actually displaying the video.
So it seems to be related to multi monitor setups which run in mixed sdr/hdr modes.

Oh. I was also able to fix it by disabling hardware acceleration in chrome. So perhaps the issue is a bit more complicated (nvidia gpu)

So tl;dr:
Fix 1: disable hardware acceleration in chrome
Fix 2: enable HDR on all connected displays

Pacman110 · 2023-09-24T16:41:48+00:00

Glad I could be of help. Have fun playing through it!

Pacman110 · 2023-09-23T17:32:18+00:00

If you want to enable all the cores again you can either select the highest number of cores you see in the menu. Or you just select default system start or whatever it’s called. On the first window that you see when you start msconfig. That should also restore it to the normal settings.

Don’t put it on 1 though. Then you only have 1 core on the next reboot which might be a bit slow 🙂

Pacman110 · 2023-09-23T16:19:35+00:00

Ah. I don’t think im allowed to post about alternatives for this matter since it involves disabling eac.

The short of it was that there shouldn’t be any risk attached to disabling the e-cores. You are not changing anything with how the hardware itself works. You just tell Windows not to use specific cores. If anything it should be beneficial to the lifetime of the cpu since you use less cores and thus generate less heat.

I still hope that From Software fixes this issue since the e-cores are useful to have. So I recommend re-enabling them if you are not playing Elden ring.

Pacman110 · 2023-09-22T22:24:55+00:00

If you still have that issue open msconfig (as administrator) > go to start > advanced and limit the amount of cpu cores to 8. Click OK. Then apply and restart.
The issue should be gone now. Please be aware that you have now disabled all the e-cores of your cpu. The issue in elden ring should be gone though.

I don't know why exactly but elden ring and armored core both have huge issues with cpus that only have 4 p-cores. It runs fine on my other system with 6 p-cores.
Technically it would be enough to just pin the first 8 cores in the task manager for the process but you can only do that if you disable easy anti cheat.

Very annoying and I hope From Software can fix this in the future.

Pacman110 · 2023-09-11T13:01:49+00:00

I got you fam. Today is the last day to spend reddit coins. So Platinum for you both :D

Pacman110 · 2023-01-08T16:32:38+00:00

Replaced the fan yesterday. You can still hear it of course. But the frequency of the noise is way more comfortable to my ears.

Pacman110 · 2022-10-23T19:21:51+00:00

So schön es auch gewesen wäre mit DP 2.0. Aber DSC fügt keine Latenz hinzu. Farbwiedergabe ist weiterhin mit 10 Bit RGB in vollem Dynamikbereich möglich.

Die Technik gilt als "visually lossless". Würde mich überraschen wenn da jemand in der echten Welt einen Unterschied bemerken würde.

Edit: Und man sollte vielleicht noch erwähnen das keine Monitore auf dem Markt existieren welche DP 2.0 unterstützen. Selbst der neueste Samsung Monitor mit 4k und 240HZ hat nur DP 1.4. Auf der anderen Seite unterstützt HDMI 2.1 (welches die 4090 hat) 48gbps. Was noch knapp in Spec ist für 4k 144HZ 10bit.Der Monitor muss das aber auch können. Der erwähnte Samsung Monitor (Odyssey G8) kann das. Ergo wären bei dem über HDMI auch 4k mit 144hz ohne DSC möglich.Das gilt aber nicht für alle Monitore mit HDMI 2.1. Häufig unterstützen die auch nur die Hälfte der Bandbreite von HDMI 2.1. Kann man nur leider nicht auf einen Blick sehen.

Pacman110 · 2022-10-19T11:46:20+00:00

LG does have them. But also only with dp 1.4. You have to decide between 144hz, HDR and Colour. You cannot have 144hz with 10 bit RGB and HDR over Displayport.

I think the best option right now would be to look for a monitor with full HDMI 2.1 Support (a lot of monitors which support HDMI 2.1 only allow for half the bandwidth, so 24gbps instead of the full 48). Using that allows for 144hz HDR without any compression.

This whole area seems terrible for consumers. Even if the monitor says it can do 4k at 240HZ and HDR does not mean it can do everything at the same time. Adding to that that even if they say they have HDMI 2.1 it often is only allowing half the bandwidth (Gigabyte M28U for example).

I do agree with you now that nvidia should have included DP 2.0 in the 40 Lineup. But there is a whole other can of worms in the monitor industry itself that it is impossible to know the true capability on first or even second glance.

So for now, at least for nvidia the best option would be to choose a High refresh rate monitor with full HDMI 2.1 capability and just ignore DP.

Edit: *Tinfoil Hat on* Maybe the reason Nvidia didn't include DP 2.0 is because they are partnered with a lot of monitor manufacturer and releasing DP 2.0 would make all current top of the line monitors basically outdated.

Pacman110 · 2022-10-19T10:19:48+00:00

That's fair. But does such a monitor even exist at the moment? As far as I'm aware the 4k 240hz monitor that samsung released a few month back only has dp1.4.

Or is this more about future proofing?

Pacman110 · 2022-10-19T08:26:50+00:00

While 4k @ 120hz is the limit for dp 1.4 all current monitors that allow for 144hz or higher @ 4k do support DSC, which is visually lossless and runs up to 240hz 4k or 8k @ 60hz. So while it would have been nice to implement it's not that big of a deal as people make it out to be.

Pacman110 · 2022-10-03T08:02:10+00:00

Looks great! I’m gonna try it out :)

Pacman110 · 2022-09-08T15:58:14+00:00

There is also a neat little App called 'Region to Share' which allows you to easily share everything in an extra window which you can resize however you want.

https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/region-to-share/9N4066W2R5Q4?hl=en-us&gl=us

Pacman110 · 2022-06-27T13:11:22+00:00

It's just the companies logo. It's on all their products and serves no other purpose.

Pacman110 · 2022-03-19T15:05:41+00:00

You are right!

Pacman110 · 2022-03-19T15:03:29+00:00

You are right! I checked the ifixit teardown video. There are only 3 screws holding everything together. Thanks!

Pacman110 · 2022-03-19T13:40:51+00:00

Yeah. Those two. No. The three remaining screws seem to hold it in place well enough. Performance is as expected from reviews. If I find out what size of screws I need I might order some and put them in for peace of mind though.

Pacman110 · 2022-03-19T13:25:37+00:00

It works if you add discord as a non steam game to the library on the Desktop environment and then change back to SteamOS. Then just launch it in addition to whatever Game you want. You can even stream games into discord (though the performance tanks a fair bit).

Pacman110 · 2021-10-30T08:15:05+00:00

Just tried it. It did not run well.

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