
You should also use Macs Fan Control from if you want to be able to use your 2.4 kilobuck laptop on your lap without being extremely uncomfortable from the excessive heat. "Reduce Transparency"), "Differentiate without color".Īlso, go to System Settings, Dock, and select "Minimize windows using:" "Scale effect" (instead of "Genie effect"). You can repeat the last step and click on Enable Turbo Boost to restart the function again. Go to System Preferences, Accessibility, Display, and turn on all the options to "Reduce motion", "Increase contrast" (incl. That’s it Turbo Boost is now disabled on your MacBook.

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You can use Intel Power Gadget from Intel to monitor actual CPU frequency and verify that it doesn't go above the spec, e.g., on MacBook Pro 16" 2019 w/ a 6-core i7-9750H, doesn't go above the regular 2.6GHz up to 4.5GHz Turbo. Verifying that Turbo Boost got disabled.It would seem that the Turbo Boost Switcher from can be made to work on macOS Catalina 10.15 after some troubleshooting, but it's kind of buggy, and the free version keeps requiring you to enter a password each time upon a wakeup.

Turbo Boost is most definitely the most power-hungry and useless technology that cannot be easily disabled on a Mac. It appears possible to use Apple's cpuctl to take some of the CPUs offline it looks like an internal tool supplied by Apple there's no easy way to know which CPUs are hyperthreading ones (I think they're supposed to be the even ones), so, a safe bet may be to disable half of the upper even-numbered CPUs, to effectively disable 1/2 of Hyper-Threading, e.g., on a 6-core machine with 12 virtual CPUs, we can disable 3 of them rather safely: sudo cpuctl offline 7 9 11 sudo cpuctl listĬan also use the CPUSetter from which has a setting dedicated to specifically disabling Hyper Threading which results in all even-numbered CPUs being taken offline. Some of the useful tools / notes for reigning in macOS Catalina 10.15 running on MacBook Pro 16" 2019 monstrosity:
