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.

Btw, probably you already know, the latest intel U cpu are 4 core... And amd ryzen 3 U also looks super cool

@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 ;)