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Microsoft denies Windows 11 CPU boost trick is a lazy fix, says Apple does this and you love it
(www.windowslatest.com)
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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Pinning the CPU clock uses more power, and generates more heat. If it were "sensible" to do so, then the CPUs for consumer devices wouldn't have variable clock speeds to begin with.
Since people do care about devices getting hot in their hands, and draining batteries, this is a stupid and lazy fix for a problem of their own making and they're expecting users to put up with the problems it causes in exchange for Microsoft being able to treat their operating system the same way social media companies treat their feeds
It's not permanently running at max frequency. It's raising it as needed, which is exactly the point of having variable frequency. Generally the user can provide guidelines for the cpu governor to control or guide its behavior according to power, performance, and thermal constraints. I think Windows has power plan modes for this.
Pinning the CPU clock can have certain uses.
There is always an xkcd.
As the article points out, both Linux and Mac OS do the exact same thing. And I don’t see people giving them shit for it. Is it stupid and lazy when they do it?