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Dylan16807 on Dec 23, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Newest MacBook Pro is the first MacBook not recomm...

If the ram's power use is the main problem, then that disproportionately affects low-power uses. There's no reason to think gaming would have a similarly crippled battery life.

Any idea how long the MBP lasts if you peg the GPU?

izacus on Dec 23, 2016 | [–]

In my experience, the new 2016 15" with Radeon 460 will die in about 2 and a half hours.

rbanffy on Dec 24, 2016 | [–]

I wonder if it would be possible for the OS to consolidate "hot" memory into as few modules as possible and power down the ones holding relatively cold data when memory pressure is low.

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