‘High Power Mode’ Comes to All M4 Pro Macs
The High Power Mode on Macs with Apple’s M4 Pro and M-series Max chips appears to start that cooling process proactively, which is why Cunningham observed more fan noise without any change in performance. If you want to get top performance out of a chip like the M4 Pro for as long as possible, it’s best to keep it cool from the very start.
Your new M4 Mac could offer even more power than before
We already know that the M4 Pro chip inside Apple ’s latest Macs is impressively powerful – it blows holes in the Mac Pro’s M2 Ultra, after all. But you can eke even more juice out of this little chip with a quick software tweak, and it’s now available in a larger range of Macs than ever before.
For comparison’s sake, I ran this same test on the previous-gen M3 Max MacBook Pro. There, the High Power mode is only 33% faster in multi-core performance than in Low Power. In fact, ...
What just happened? Apple has expanded the availability of its high power mode to include more MacBook Pro and Mac ...
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