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But you don't HAVE to run it full out as anandtech showed, you can drop it to a 30fps limit (still beating everyone else) and avoid the problems you're talking about with battery and power sucking. They also mentioned it isn't bad on heat.
If you cannot use the chip for more than 50% of what it is worth without murdering the battery, might as well make the chip 50% weaker in the first place and not have to bother with throttling to make battery life reasonable; it would still beat everything else currently on the market without having to bother with artificially capping its performance. The chip would be a buck or two cheaper to manufacture and yields would likely be better on top of that.
Why remove the OPTION to run full out if desired? That is ridiculous. I can plug in and use FULL power all day, which is how most would use it if hooked to a TV as noted in reviews (for gaming with a gamepad).
You're arguing to limit choice of something they are giving you for free...LOL. Ok. Whatever. Manufacturers can put the chip at whatever they want, as Acer did running it at 2.1ghz instead of 2.3ghz, thus giving it massive battery life for their chromebook. They can also govern the clocks of the gpu any way they want (sure I can override whatever they do in most cases, but they can set it at whatever for sale). Should AMD sell all their gpus with less power because they use more watts than NV cards? That's dumb and they wouldn't be competitive then.
The point of having the power in there is you can use it WHEN DESIRED (like next year or the year after when games using this kind of power actually land). Your way, would have you require a NEW device at that point because they chose to artificially limit the soc forcing a new purchase. Your argument is ridiculous and even at 750 you get better battery than 852mhz it's clocked at, no need to drop it to half.
The user has no idea anything is happening anyway. Bother? Bother who? Logic in the device does all this for you, just like a desktop drops speed when not used etc. No difference here. The ONLY correct move is giving me full power that won't damage the device (if you get to damage levels THEN and only THEN is it giving me too much). I'd rather have a super-powered device I could plug in and use for an extra year or two in really intense gaming, than be forced to buy a new product because they limited me for ABSOLUTELY no reason. I want the fastest clocks my gpu in my pc can run at, unless it damages the unit. ALWAYS. I'll gladly turn it down if I don't want as much heat in my room etc (or too noisy), rather than NOT have the ability to use the free power.
By your logic they should just start shipping all current laptops as half speeds (heck ship everything at half), for great battery...LOL. What? Whatever. I'll plugin when needed and run intense games IN the house where I have a power outlet.
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