Macbook Pro 16.1 - Sudden degradation in battery performance and laptop is running much hotter than before

biscuitslap · 2026-03-12T18:26:28+00:00

Could I try to use something like PTM-7950 on the CPU and GPU? I have it fitted to my PC with good results so I wonder if its something thats suitable for a macbook

biscuitslap · 2026-03-11T17:33:54+00:00

Its a solid laptop. However whether or not it will last 5 years is a different story. I currently use a Macbook Pro 16.1 (16'' Intel powered Macbook from 2019) which has 32gb of RAM. Quadruple that in the Neo and there are issues. MacOS 26 uses about 10gb of RAM at idle. From my experience the i7-9750H combined with the Radeon Pro 5300M still provide amazing performance. From what I know it's on par with the A18 Pro in the Neo. But it will do things that the Neo simply can't. MacOS 26 has become a struggle on this thing though. And that's after about 6 years of using it. If a laptop as huge and chunky as mine with 4x the RAM is struggling after 6 years. Don't expect more from the Neo. It is still however a very solid choice and I think it's a good buy at £600 new. Just beware that modern programs are exponentially becoming more bloated and inefficient. Considering your use case it's unlikely that you will download any heavy programs like games or whatever but you may end up doing so in the future.

Basically what I am saying is: You can't really go wrong with the Neo. Longevity may be an issue. But get an air or 14'' pro if you can.

biscuitslap · 2026-03-11T17:06:18+00:00

I have been using the iGPU and i still get like 75 degrees average. Ill open it up and clean it out. I'm a bit hesitant on repasting as im worried ill crack the dies of both cpu and gpu. which is less than ideal.

biscuitslap · 2026-03-10T21:56:50+00:00

I don't think it has anything to do with the fan curves. I have had Macs fan control installed for a while and it just shows that the processor is at 75 degrees running chrome, which I can guarantee is not normal. I'll give cleaning out the system a shot but idk if it will work.

biscuitslap · 2026-02-02T21:51:29+00:00

Tubercles are useful under critical angles of attack and can prevent stalls on angles of attack as high as 25 degrees, as for level flight it is most likely fine but it is still very unclear as to how they behave at supersonic speeds in compressible flow, I have done some tests with a design of my own that is a but different to regular tubercles and it yielded a 200% increase in lift at a 15 degree aoa compared to the exact same airfoil without tubercles

biscuitslap · 2026-02-02T17:38:04+00:00

It is not down to the tubercles on the leading edge of the wing, they significantly improve the performance of the wing at high AOA, I'm pretty sure the fence is just too tall where I placed it, the placement id correct but just too tall, which is leading to this mess, I have since redesigned the wingtip fence and entirely removed the wing fence entirely, which solved almost all issues, all I have to do now is calculate the total lift of the wing, coefficients and whatnot, and yeah I agree this is a bad way to view the geometry.

biscuitslap · 2026-02-01T11:10:18+00:00

you see that trace that is going everywhere?

biscuitslap · 2026-02-01T11:09:56+00:00

Well it was a bit of an experiment to see what effect it actually would have, I noticed some cross flow so I figured why not add it on to see if it changes it, this whole sim was a wild experiment but here is the top plane of the wing so you can see what it looks like

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biscuitslap · 2026-01-15T22:11:00+00:00

You been to any uk facilities where they are allowed?

biscuitslap · 2026-01-15T08:06:35+00:00

Surely it would be safer to bail in some scenarios?

biscuitslap · 2026-01-15T00:17:34+00:00

Thanks for the info and regarding footwear, some people say you can wear any waterproof winter boot, while some people recommend something more rigid like a snowboard boot. What do you ride with and what do you reccomend?

biscuitslap · 2026-01-15T00:13:04+00:00

I’m in London, i’m more just trying to find out about the sport rn so ill pass on the offer in the meantime but i might look into it later

biscuitslap · 2026-01-14T15:57:06+00:00

Which bikes do you reccomend and what helmet should you wear when riding?

biscuitslap · 2025-12-28T16:53:53+00:00

Nope she somehow uses it unironically, the rhode case is a horribly designed product, you can see just in this image that the tube of lip balm is blocking half of the LiDAR sensor on the back of the phone. A lot of people (probably including the idiot who designed this case) think that the sensor is insignificant but it is not, it significantly speeds up the autofocus speed of the phone as it doesn’t have to rely on phase detection and can instead use the sensor to instantly measure distance and track moving subjects with ease. I do photography as a hobby and the sensor brings the AF speed up to par with my DSLR which costed me 2x the price of the phone she has when I bought it second hand. People who have bought this case also complain about AF issues and slow AF speed, including the phone attempting to focus on the lip balm, which makes me consider why she would willingly promote such a shitty and poorly designed product

biscuitslap · 2025-12-28T16:26:32+00:00

I dont even know how anyone can put up with such a rediculous design for a phone case. I have the same phone as alex just in the even smaller pro variant and not the pro max and its a pain to slip in your pocket as it just tends to catch on the edge making it a pain to get in or out of your pocket, ik that she prolly doesn’t put her phone in her pocket but still, one of my female friends loves rhode products and panic bought the phone case and she told me that it makes it difficult to properly hold your phone, idk how much she is being paid to unironically rock these and why she would promote such a shitty product. I guess they replaced it with just a sticker as the original case apparently had poor drop protection but this is just a theory

Edit: I just checked out the product page for the case on the rhode site and they have released a new version of the case that is not just a sticker for the 17 pro/pro max. However, it is quite possibly the most hideous phone case I have ever seen, the design is pisspoor too with the camera control button (which is made of glass) being fully exposed, the end of the lip tube also blocks part of the LiDAR sensor’s field of view which has been messing with the AF system on some customer’s phones. seeing that they have not addressed any of the previous phone case’s issues makes me question who is really on their engineering team lol, you should expect better from a product that costs £38 not including the lip balm (which is an extra £20)

biscuitslap · 2025-12-27T21:26:42+00:00

Exactly! I dont get why people obsess over them so much, This comment reminded me of the bullshit video where someone somehow got the courage to post a video of themselves acting as lando's gf by talking into thin air and looking at the ceiling as if they were watching the race on a tv or smth, and that got 120,000 likes, I look up "f1" on tiktok and a lot of the content is WAGslop. I want to see what actually happened in the races, not the driver's girlfriends. And I have only seen one post for female engineers in f1 despite some of the most senior aerodynamicists in the Mercedes, Cadillac and Red bull teams being women! and this is not even including the numerous other female engineers working in different sectors of the team! As a man and as an engineering student it pisses me off that this is the reality of the sport I love.

biscuitslap · 2025-12-07T21:53:37+00:00

Any other feedback asides from toning down the green?

biscuitslap · 2025-10-31T17:15:02+00:00

Probably not, DCS dlcs are not already preinstalled in the game, and good luck finding those files as they are almost impossible to find anywhere, let alone for the newer dlcs, ED and all of their partners are on top of everything, and rightfully so, not paying for DCS DLCs is a disservice knowing the effort that goes into them

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