Im not launching SPACE x rockets on my air, im playing clash of clans.
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iPhone 17 Pro Thermals Are Everything: iPhone 17 Pro vs iPhone Air
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Most iPhone Air users will never encounter thermal throttling, because they’re not using the device in “Pro-level” ways. Scrolling through social media, taking photos, doing light edits, or playing casual games like Candy Crush barely stress the CPU. Realistically, how many iPhone Air owners are pushing it with console-grade AAA games or heavy video editing?
I know how a vapor chamber works. It's not a heat sink but a heat pipe. The fact remains that in small vapor chambers like these with sustained heat input and more heat input than output, the vapor chamber can get to a phase where it more resembles a heat sink. Which is also shown in most testing data: sustained cpu activity => the heat sink first helps immensely, then suddenly stops and performance drops to similar rates as no vapor chamber.
The ideal situation where the liquid vaporizes on one side and condenses again on the other side only works as long as the other side is cool enough. Physics...
As an electronics technician with some experience with electronic engineering, I can confidently say that the electronic components in the Air won't degrade and "slow down" over any time period due to not having a vapor chamber to help reduce their heat. What might slow down over time, if the Air's internals stay significantly hotter than the Pros, is the battery's charging rate, since rechargeable batteries develop a higher internal resistance as they age, and greater exposure to heat can age them faster. But we don't know yet if the Airs will suffer from this, and we won't know for maybe half a year or longer.
So much that Apple should never have created it to begin with.
Seriously, Macrumors newbie, there are forum guidelines that you should read before making your first posts. And among these, avoid flamebaits like this.
Lol, OP created his account back in 2013. I doubt he did it specifically for the iPhone Air. Mind, the OG iPad Air was released in 2013.
we don't know. hopefully it can be optimized , but I imagine glassmorphism is taxing from the start. idk if they put some ray tracing in it.
the UI is now HDR which is definitely a culprit, as LPM lowers the power consumption by a lot (reduce transparency fails to) . I do not know whether specular highlights are in HDR as well or if it's only in case of interaction/dynamic UI.
As someone who is sceptical of the air's thermals amongst other things, this is not going to be an issue long term. Nice rage bait post though
I play a lot of fist person shooters, I would think that would push the processor but my air has never got hot at all.. idk what you are talking about.
More than that, most of these cases phone is not even overheating. People just feel it getting warm and start panicking. It's only overheating when you get the temperature notification. To be honest it seems that Apple more tackled that 'feeling of it getting warm' than anything else too, hence why vapour chamber is predominantly cooling the backside and the battery where you feel it the most. With more of an indirect cooling of the chip itself.