🔥 i9 MacBook vs Laptop Cooling Pads! Worth it? 

This metal is heating up....sorta like transfer of heat to a heatsink am I missing something Nice vlog, bad review

metal should help dissipate heat and justine says its worse because it heats up... it was an entertaining video, but not really a reliable test.

8:14 Wood dissipates heat better than metal!? Pls tell me that was a joke... How about using something that measures CPU temperate like iStats Menu or Intel Power gadget during the testing???.... 🙄 I understand this is not exactly a technical tech channel but come on....

it wont work on the macbook because there is no air in takes on the bottom its just all metal so really the only thing the cooling pads will do is cool of the metal on the bottom and i know they work because my cooling pad cools down my laptop by at least 15c

Thanks Justine, had a ton a fun filming this one!

To make an awful pun, *that thumbnail is FIRE* 🔥

Did u let it cool down to ambient in between tests?

Sorry but it is a hardware issue. All they did was turn down the voltages on the CPU so it can't reach it full potential. They (apple) is just covering up their mistakes and lying to their costumers. Not hard to dupe people into believing what they say. All they need to do was update the BIOS to run the CPU slower and then write a patch in the OS to fake the actual CPU frequency to make it look like it's running it's advertised speeds. There is no way software can replace a fan and heatsink unless you turn down the CPU or up the fan speed or use a bigger fin stack. Common sense and physics would tell you that.

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1) It looks to me like the bamboo one actually directs the air out the sides of under the laptop while all the others simply throw air straight at it. I think that is the difference. The metal isn't "killing your laptop". The fans aren't heating the metal mesh, the metal mesh draws heat from the bottom of the laptop, then quickly gets saturated and can no longer cool it off more. That's why the metal mesh is warm when you're done. The reason why none of the gamery style coolers did anything is because the Mac doesn't have big cooling vents on the bottom of the laptop. They are designed to throw air into those vents and cool off the internals of the laptop by exhausting wherever they can as fast as it can. (Seams around ports, cracks in the casing, speakers, the 2" hold you drilled next to touch pad to let more air through, etc. You know anywhere air can get out.) So the throwing air at the Mac does nothing because it's designed different. (I.e. prettier and hotter) I've seen other Mac cooling solutions that pull air from the vents at the back of the laptop under where the screen hinges. That's more along the lines of what this would need. Something designed for it. 2) There is No software upgrade that can produce better performance when there is such a terrible hardware issue as the MacBook with the i9. It is straight up an issue of needing more cooling. Period. You Cannot pump more performance out of that chip And keep it cooler with the Same hardware, just by fiddling with the software. (Unless it's Very poorly optimized, which I think we can agree is not the issue with Intel's $$$$ Core i9). Apple seriously flubbed that one. They Very obviously didn't test this device under load AT ALL. Hold Apple to their bullshit please. Sorry for the long rant. Here is Latvian dream. 🥔

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Just interesting question , how it will work on macbook if the bottom of the mackbook locked no wholes or space that allows the air to flow inside?

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it makes me laugh when she said that metal is cooking your laptop.

i've tried to get my macbook pro fixed several times bc it overheats in just the top band near the screen, like where the camera is showing, and I can't seem to get it fixed. if one of these works i'll be very happy. otherwise i'm just sticking to the app i got for it. Do all apples get hot right there near the screen or is it just mine?

I love this videos, thank you Justine! I’m so excited for my new MacBook Pro 15.

7:02 On 3, right? *Counts down from 3*

My old MacBook Air usually runs loud and hot. One day I remembered I had one of those cooling pads so I tried it and it works. While I don't notice a performance increase, the laptop fans don't kick on so loud and it doesn't get as warm.

Isn''t there a program to check the Temps on an apple? and how is the timing of rendering a video good testing? wouldn't getting temps, over time be a better test? cause it's a heating issue, not a rendering one. plus what is the CPU speed?

but how did u do this and as I knew there is now air holes from the bottom and this is opposite the other of laptops !!! and how these fans work: push the air or pull it?

This wasn't a great test since u didn't check to make sure the starting temps of the machine we're the same really should have let the machine idle for a good ten mins between test

Fairly sure the "patch" just made the CPU less powerful lol

Why go through the trouble of doing thermal tests, but not monitoring cpu temp/freq? Is it not possible in osx? I can't imagine there wouldn't be a resources monitor built in.

Hey were did you get that 15 inch MacBook case it’s been super hard finding nice ones

I actually had been pondering a purchase prior to watching this, but this video decides it. Far better to use a regular AC-powered 35cm (or wider) fan on fully blast aimed toward the MacBook Pro. Cools you too.

Pulling an Austin? I love it!

What app did you use to show the temperature I could do use that

I noticed on my 2017 macbook that if you leave breathing room for the air intake on the back and position a fan in the back of the macbook it decreased my temps by 20c

Awesome vid Justine

Hey Justine!! Great video, but just one little note...if the cooling pad is metal and gets warm, that's actually better than the plastic cooling pads and not worse. Not only is the cooling pad blowing air on the laptop, but it also acts as a heat sink drawing heat away from the frame. It would act just like the heat sink attached to the CPU, but instead cools down the entire computer.

The heating of the metal stands could be a good thing or a bad thing. Is the heat coming from powering the fans or is the heat being absorbed by the stand from the laptop acting like a heat sink?

Shouldnt the fan blow out...not in? To get rid of the heat....?

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This video has a lot of flaws. First of all, you should have let the laptop cool down to ambient temperature after each test, then verified it with the camera (you might have done it off camera, so not that big of a deal). Second, you should have ran a software similar to AIDA64 for Mac (not a mac guy, so idk what could be used) to check the clock speeds overtime and the amount of thermal throttle, or boosting. Last but not least, the metal that you said was "cooking your laptop" would in fact give it more thermal mass and make it take longer to heat up if it wasn't for the rubber feet on the bottom of the laptop preventing it from making contact... You really should have done more research and gone more in depth with your review, given the influence that you have. No offence, but someone might freak out that they're "cooking their laptop" and throw their cooling pad in the trash, when in reality it was doing no harm.

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That thumbnail tho!!! hahaha

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@ijustine I have the older macbook that you showed us in space gray if you wanted it?

Really a good comparison and clear idea. Thanks pal!

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Awesome vid

Thanks for running the those tests, really interesting

Why didn't you use an app to turn the fan speed up the whole way?

Covering the bottom of the computer in an insulating layer of 3M vinyl wrap, and then blowing air on the bottom of the computer to cool it is pretty funny.

0:22 No one that knows a little about tech believes that xD

wich case woud i by for my phone

7:09 *Armando:* "What is the most unique item from Apple that you own?" *Justine:* "It is a 1984 mac, I haven't opened it jet.." *Armando:* "I have a mousepad."

Blue LED: "Oh it's got RGB!" "It's like you're cooking your laptop" ... you're just transferring heat from one object to another, just like what heat sinks do. To "cook your laptop," the metal has to be hotter than the machine, but in this case, the metal isn't generating any heat, it's sucking it out from the laptop and dissipating it (like a heat sink), something that works a lot better than transferring heat onto wood. How much do these guys actually know about computers... or physics for that matter...? Why did they stop measuring the temperature after like the first three tries? Why are they measuring effectiveness of the cooling pads with render time? Do they even know what thermal throttling is?? Thermal throttling is when performance decreases due to overheating, meaning, unless it reaches a certain temperature (say, 97 C as an extreme) it's effects are miniature. Cooling pads will cool your laptop anywhere from around 2 C to 10 C, if rendering never even made the laptop go up to thermal throttling temperatures in the first place, then regardless of whether you cooled 2 C or 10 C wouldn't matter in terms of render time. The difference in render time shown can be better explained by differences in software differences and background tasks than the actual cooling ability of the pads. Instead of concluding whether cooling pads work or not, they should've just concluded whether it helps rendering on a Mac Book that doesn't even have ventilation to its internals on the bottom.

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Armando, why do you use premiere instead final cut?

Justine where did you get your macbook pro skin

And here we are adding some couple of bucks to make it 1-10 second faster while we can cut $2000+ for 2 time faster with gigabyte aero 15X

''You're cooking your laptop!'' Basic understanding of physics needed here. This is a bad test..

Great video! I've always wondered about these because the pad isn't cooling anything but the case, if that. Thanks for the video!

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Does anyone know if there is any caching going on? I'm suspicious about this experiment's design

software update didnt change that this macbook is equiped with poor cooling solution not adequate to the TDP

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Premiere Pro isnt optimtized for a PC either. :-D

How come Final cut took longer? Different project?

I just got a base model macbook pro 15 2018.. it heats up without even opening any apps..

i love justine but i REALLY feel like my IQ is dropping when watching anything apple related :P

I used to have a cooling pad a few years ago and I definitely hated it. They're so loud and cumbersome if you want to actually carry around your laptop, even inside your house. A stand might be a good idea but I'm not a fan of cooling pads at all. 😉

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I've got the tecknet one and it does make a noticeable difference cooling my laptop but the build quality is horrible. The mesh on top came ever so slightly dented really which stopped one fan turning. Surely these cooling stands only make much difference on laptops with vents on the bottom. which mine has.

@iJustine Where can I find that cool MacBook cover you show in the beginning? Thank you

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Hey I know that guy!!!!

well, the thing you have to figure out is how warm is the air and how warm is the room? I have a macbook air and I am able to run it better when I am in a cool room. So one thing you can do to increase proformance is to cool the room.

I think it would be interesting to try the comparisons with the MBP fully cooled (overnight) before each test run. I suspect the gizmos do not make much difference, but cold start versus heat soaked runs might.

cooling pads for a product worth 3000+USD??????? If it would be a made in China product I wouldnt say a bad word...... oh, wait! Its made in china :-D

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I have the MacBook 15 inch 2015, and I have a pad that is mostly holes (bassicalls just a stand), it makes a significant difference as it stops the laptop from throttling)

For the nobe bird you can see underneath it theres a storage part where the holder for the laptop is

This MacBook sucks. It over heat.

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ok what was that heat camera app that justine was using?

If you are just exporting from premier it will not always export but premier and media encoder is a great combo for exporting and uploading

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I love how before the video, there was a microsoft laptop ad 😂

The wood is not sucking in any heat 8:12 Wood is a very bad thermal conductor. Ever seen a wooden heatsink?

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what does Justine edit on ?? Final or Adobe??

Is it bad that I'm still using a late 2006 poly white MacBook?

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I simply got internal 80mm dual cooling fans on Amazon, and can place them wherever needed, with aded little "U-Shaped holders as feet" that I made from bending 2 sections of coat hanger. Total cost $13 and they cool my mac just fine. You could add a USB switch/hub for an addition ten bux if you desire.

so I use a metal base cooling pad on my alienware r4 and it has done an amazing job at keeping the laptop cooler than normal. I can say that the difference is the the bottom base of the alienware which has rubber supports that elevate the laptop when on a flat surface having no contact with the base.

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You know... you shouldn't measure Thermals in CPU performance. The only reason thermals would make a difference is that the macbook still thermal throttles a lot.