Macbook Pro Mode: Eight lines of code suggest more speed
The Macbook is set to become even faster. But not in the form of a new device, but with settings in the software. Tinkerers have discovered evidence of a Pro Mode that allows Macbooks to ignore their limits.
The new Macbook Pros are powerful. The 16-inch model is even very powerful. But eight lines of code, discovered by Mac magazine 9to5Mac employee Filipe Esposito, suggest that a "Pro Mode" is coming.
The message of the code is clear: you could soon be able to deliberately push your Macbook beyond its normal limits. A Pro Mode for your Macbook Pro or Macbook Air, so to speak. Haha, Macbook Pro Pro.
How does Pro Mode work?
In simple terms, Pro Mode works by allowing the Macbook to deliver more power. This is because performance generates heat in the device, which needs to be cooled. However, as Apple prides itself on the fact that its Macbooks always run quietly, the company has set the performance limits fairly conservatively. Ideally, your Macbook's fans won't run at all and the system will get by with passive cooling.
However, if more power is permitted, more heat is generated. This means that it has to be cooled by the fans, which have to run faster. This means more noise. However, Pro Mode is not intended to be a permanent setting, but rather a time-limited one.
With Pro Mode, the limits in the system are pushed upwards. The components are allowed to run hotter, the fans are allowed to roar. You end up with more performance. Video producers in particular, or anyone who works with a heavy graphics load, will enjoy Pro Mode.
Still in draft form, because of one character
Mac Pro Mode is not yet functional. A rollout of the feature is not known. However, Filipe assumes that Pro Mode will only be compatible with the latest generation of Macbook, as a new cooling design is installed from the 16-inch model upwards. The new cooling system has more space for the heat sinks, more airflow and can therefore dissipate 12 watts more heat. In typical Apple fashion, however, the "12 watts more" is an empty number, as it is not known how much this is in absolute terms. The 12 watts less of the previous models are not known, nor is the 12 watts more of the new Macbook Pro.
The code, however, is still at the design stage. This can be deduced from the fact that Apple is a company of perfectionists, but a typo has crept into the code. The string for the reset description on line 6 should be "until", not "untill". The version with two L's used to exist, but is considered obsolete and is now used as a common typo.
Journalist. Author. Hacker. A storyteller searching for boundaries, secrets and taboos – putting the world to paper. Not because I can but because I can’t not.