Is that running on Rosetta 2? Rosetta 2 does (or did, maybe it's removed now) a fine job running x86 code on Apple Silicon, but boy was it cycle-hungry to do it.
Apple Silicon is not really the simultaneously silent and quiet and cool system it was in the M1 days.
If you get a MacBook Air it will get quite toasty at throttling limits. After all, it has no fan.
MacBook Pro models and Apple computers in general tend to favor quiet operation over keeping the laptop surface cool.
Many PC gaming laptops go out of their way to keep warm air off the keyboard deck with a high willingness to use fan noise to accomplish that since the assumption is that you’re resting your hands on the computer for an extended period and you have headphones on for your game anyway.
The target market of the "Neo crap" doesn't care and/or isn't pushing workloads that come anywhere near saturating it. It's a laptop that doesn't bend, has a decent screen, has a decent battery, and isn't full of adware.
And your comment was calling it crap for some reason. We wouldn’t be having this conversation if you’d left that apparently superfluous word out of your comment.
I recently installed an app to manually activate the fans on my MacBook Pro M1 Pro as I've never been able to trigger them over the past 4+ years. Just to check whether the fans even work (they do).
You must be using only lame languages like C or Go or Python that aren’t optimized for laptop warming during compilation. Try using a Real Language with a Real Compiler, like C++ or Rust or Swift, and build decent-sized projects using all cores.
(All joking aside, this is why I have a MacBook Pro. Compilation easily hits the Air’s thermal limits and the performance boost on the Pro with its fan is impressive.)
All their spec sheets say they support up to x% _non-condensing_ humidity, which I’m guessing is about the dew point?
they're doing what to my CPU????
If you get a MacBook Air it will get quite toasty at throttling limits. After all, it has no fan.
MacBook Pro models and Apple computers in general tend to favor quiet operation over keeping the laptop surface cool.
Many PC gaming laptops go out of their way to keep warm air off the keyboard deck with a high willingness to use fan noise to accomplish that since the assumption is that you’re resting your hands on the computer for an extended period and you have headphones on for your game anyway.
(All joking aside, this is why I have a MacBook Pro. Compilation easily hits the Air’s thermal limits and the performance boost on the Pro with its fan is impressive.)