However, when was stuck in the midst of a 2020 lockdown with no parts available, he found a way to get his damaged MacBook up and running without a battery. In the end we each have to make our own choices for how we want to manage our hardware/devices and try to get the most out of them in what works for our specific use case.A long time ago, a laptop was a basic thing, and you could pretty much run one just by hooking up a power supply to the battery contacts. Just as the curpertino folks design the thermals to run at max speed and have the fans keep the temps safe, I would imagine they also test running constant tasks at the non-boosted speeds for long periods of time. I’m not sure how there is any risk to damaging the hardware with it disabled as it uses feature provided in the hardware to disable. When I’m exporting video I want all the power I can get and the i9 + boost is great, but when I’m on a video call and my fans are going crazy because of a crummy video client making my cpu crazy, disabling turbo boost is wonderful. But if you’re doing a CPU intensive task with it disabled it will take longer and still drain down the battery as you’re working slower for longer vs a boost and quick completion. If you have a MBP and are out and about and want to conserve battery life it can be great.

I think it all depends on what your objectives are. And of course that is when 10.16 comes out, which based on the catalina track record I will be weary of upgrading for a while (I’m one of the nuts that keeps everything up to date in an OCD like fashion, but catalina has been a bumpy road for me).ĮDIT: I’m also on a 2019 16' MBP with the i9 proc

So even though you will get a warning that it’s a legacy extension it seems like it should keep working except for maybe a brief period when the developer needs to change out the API calls to work the new way.

There is a small risk that eventually the app would not work with a future Mac OS version, but the developer confirmed with Apple that they would only be blocking kernel extensions using the old APIs when the new userspace APIs are available to do the same thing. I use it all the time and it’s great! The pro version is nice as I can be in better control of when I want to sacrifice some computer power for either lower thermal temps or better battery life, as well as setting specific rules for different applications to enable/disable turbo boost.

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