I do own a HI-end XPS 13 w/ i7. I have it for more than 3 years by now. It's a fucking beast! It's running cold, VERY snappy, does its job VERY well and VERY fast. I cannot imagine owning a faster machine...

Today I've noticed that all the 3 years I've been running in powersave mode (cpu capped at 1.7 GHz).

Jesus hugging Christ!

Dude what?
How many physical cores, logical cores and ram ?

@metamourge i7-6500U: 2 cores, (4 w/ HT), 16G RAM

I've got a very similar i5 (except it's not in powersave) and it's often sluggish and even limits my productivity. It all depends on what you are trying to run.

@electrineer IntelliJ w/ *teen gradle modules, *teen launched docker instances, chrome and postman

^^-- this is my daily workspace

@electrineer Wait, are you on Linux too? Or Windows?

@netikras windows on that machine but no consumer grade machine has had any trouble running any os in a decade so that's irrelevant.

@electrineer I thought so too :)

Im jellous. Especially you said you run U series processor which is like half of processor.

I run beefy i7 7820hk 32 gb of ram and 1 tb samsung 960 pro.

Sometimes still not nuff power....

that's like accidental preservation. like you literally increased the life span.
the mere thought of that feels good.

@Nanos maybe, idk. I'm running linux.

I had the same issue with my work lappy. A coleague solved it by undervolting CPUs by just a few hundred milivolts. Clock dropped to 70-80%, but at least it's stable now and does not dowthrottle every 5 seconds due to heat.
I couldn't undervolt it, so I've disabled intel's turbo boost via uefi. Now it's MUCH faster running on stable 2.4 ghz than it was before on 4.1 and overheating

@Nanos ummm.... That depends on your definition of "LITTLE extreme" 😁 I wonder what would you call 'extreme' and 'very extreme' 😁

SSD!

@jmprimezer0 970 evo ;)