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Turbo Boost Switcher 3 6 1 For Mac: Tips and Tricks for Optimizing Your Mac



You should uninstall "Turbo Boost Switcher Pro". It seems to do some low level things like turning turbo boost on or off, that you should rather trust the OS to deal with. It may be causing serious trouble by conflicting with how the OS manages the processor.


And the numbers themselves represent increments of 100 MHz by which the power is boosted. Hence, in the above example of a Turbo Ratio of 6589, the clock speed can be increased by a maximum of up to 900 MHz. So If you have a Mac has a clock speed of 1.6 GHz, it may be boosted to a total of up to 1.6 GHz + 900 MHz = 2.5 GHz.




Turbo Boost Switcher 3 6 1 For Mac



After nearly 2 years of operation, the Macbook's heat output became worrying. The external display plays a role in my workspace, as well as turbo-boost triggered from apps. The problem is not new, many ideas and solutions are provided online. Read on to learn more.


The Macbook Pro 16 2019 is based on Intel x86 CPUs. When looking up the specs for the Core i7 version, it unveils 14nm for the chip. The planned 10nm had to be postponed, and is not available in the Macbook. The 2019 Macbook therefore got better fans to address heat concerns. Intel uses Turboboost to overclock the processor, 2.6GHz boosted to 4.5GHz. This drains more power and produces more heat, and it could negatively influence the behaviour of the external monitor temperature problem.


Thus far, I've only used the suggested Turboboost Switcher for monitoring the temperature and fan speed. I'm hesitant in changing OS settings on the kernel level which may break future upgrades. Let's see if there are alternatives.


Low power mode also disables Intel's Turboboost, avoiding higher frequencies and thus temperature and energy usage. The "Radeon High Side" power usage is reduced to 5W when an external display is connected too. Users on Reddit report it working; I've just tried it and will monitor its behaviour.


Continuous overheating is not an option, making hardware failure more possible in the future. My daily operations with Chrome, Slack, Zoom can easily trigger the CPU Turboboost with a browser tab consuming one CPU core, thus kernel_task coming to prevent overheating. Most of my resource intense workflows run somewhere in the cloud already. I'll continue to monitor the low energy mode to see if it helps, and update this blog post in case.


An unspoken feature request for macOS - allow to disable Intel's Turboboost, separated from limiting the AMD GPU power consumption. The latter probably is a software bug, hard to nail down. I'm guessing one more reason for Apple to invest into own hardware design with the M1 processor unifying CPU and GPU, and benefit from their own platform in the long term.


Following rumors of a performance-boosting "Pro Mode" coming in the next update to macOS Catalina, developer Marco Arment has argued that Apple should bring an iPhone-style Low Power Mode to MacBooks as well.


If you're using a 15-inch MacBook Pro, disabling turbo boost has a clear positive effect on the battery life. CPU intensive tasks take a hit. But for general usage, disabling Turbo Boost, even temporarily when you're in dire circumstances, can be a big help.


Max Turbo Frequency refers to the maximum single-core processor frequency that can be achieved with Intel Turbo Boost Technology. See www.intel.com/technology/turboboost/ for more information and applicability of this technology.


OpenCL lets you tap into the power of graphics cards (the GPU) to boost AfterShot Pro's processing speed. Depending on the graphics card and your computer system, the results can be dramatic. Give it try to see what OpenCL can do for you.


  • Done Wrote and checked in code to parameterize LDAP autocomplete searchfilter via hidden pref (bug 77386); also improves default searchfilter (bug 85315). Wrote code to speedup LDAP autocomplete by only asking for the specific attributes bwe need (bug 74098). Still testing and cleaning up. Various reviews.To do this week Finish my 0.9.2 bugs: 74098 - above mentioned speedup 81761 - override settings require restarting browser to take effect 82169 - Switching directory for autocomplete needs a restart Triage and dive into 0.9.3 bugs. Navigator+ June 18 Submitted by Viswanath Ramachandran Highlights Bill landed his fixes for a slew of turbo mode bugs and Alec fixedthe mail 3 pane turbo mode bug too.

  • Turbo mode work remaining = Multiple Profile Case (ccarlen) + Installer& Prefs work (syd) + Tray Icon (bill has first cut, need someone to close)+ Final decision on if it is default on (chofmann has some good reasonswhy it shd NOT be on by default)

  • Alec fixed the bug where items deleted from History did not disappear immediately (and made it look like delete did not work)\

  • Bill fixed the bug where hyperlinks in many windows applications when clicked loaded Mozilla 2 times.

  • Ben took over the Content Pack work and converted it to an extension, pending reviews to be checked in.

  • Steve fixed a serious regression in Session Cookies and made them work again

  • Steve added an enhancement to Password Manager API so that some issues with multiple mail account support could be resoved.

  • After many trials and tribulations getting to Mountain View, Blake Ross started working on campus as of 06/12/01. Go Blake! Gave him some timeto settle in, but I'm pretty sure we've got some 0.9.3 work we can throwhis way. ;-)

  • Matt made it so that Chrome items in the main toolbar and personaltoolbar, do _not_ disappear after you have viewed your preferences. Thisused to happen sometimes, which was nearly a beta stopper.

  • Matt fixed the bug where it reverted you to Netscape Search even whenyou selected another search engine.

  • Vishy and Jaime decided that for this release, the form manager panelL12Y work could be limited to making panels hideable.

  • Issues / Lowlights None ! :-) .

  • Project Management Bugzilla Untriaged nominations 19 mozilla0.9.2 scheduled 19 (12 fix in hand) mozilla0.9.3 scheduled 75 Checkins this week Mozilla Bonsai Query Thanks To Mark Hammon ( markh@activestate.com) for fixing two Win32 startup/integration bugs (65974 and 85860).

  • Anatoliy for fixing "When offline/tab not found, sidebar should indicate that in tab".

  • Plans/Priorities Alec Flett Have a fix for 73141, will post patch for review monday nightHave 90% of a fix for 62173, ETA 6/19 Ben Goodger Defer skin switch until after restart. (84344) Helper app Dialog bug (79938) m0.9.3 bug, if time permits: support drag filing of bookmarks into folders on toolbar, at least on Windows. Bill Law Sit in the shade somewhere in the French/Italian countryside, drinking wine. Blake Ross Waiting to go in: 80946 - Cannot dismiss Pref dialog by "OK" after visiting "Advanced -> System" category

  • 68846 - Keypress event bubbles up to alert and cancels them before user can read them

  • 83614 - nsIDOMXULElement needs command() method (also fixes 56137)

  • 85173 - Save As... zipfile download with very-long url geneates oversized save window

  • 78107 - Option+Reload should bypass cache

  • 76696 - Useless tooltip on ftp:// directories

  • 83763 - Search cleanup

  • 84602 - When a button has focus, enter key doesn't fire the button's oncommand handler

  • 70935 - Windows and Linux have space to right of security icon

  • 78949 - Big caret appears after Select All on list items

  • 45533 - Widgets visually respond/react to right click

  • 85058 - Addressing pref pane cleanup

  • 83869 - Profile Wizard rewrite (fixes 78272, 67425 , 82318, others)

  • Still waiting to go in: 73857 - History rewrite to use rdfliner (fixes 48864, 59814 , 69260, 71029, 71947 , partly 66907 , others)

  • Matt Fisher 0.9.2 bugs Paul Chen 0.9.2 bugs Samir Gehani Peer reviews.

  • Flesh out basic search mode feature issue: mozilla or ns-only.

  • mozilla0.9.2 bugs

  • Steve Morse 76485: support.microsoft.com doesn't load on WinME85299 et al. regionalize form manager dialog85300: form manager dialog busted since going into region pack Viswanath Ramachandran Find a new owner for the Profile Manager FE Bugzilla component (currentlyowned by Ben)

  • Help drive Nav+ Mozilla0.9.2 bugs to zero

  • Help triage down Mozilla0.9.3 list to around 40.

  • Find someone to close out the Turbo Mode Tray Icon work.

  • Build optimized experimental build with ccarlen's Multiple Profile casefix for turbo mode.

  • Focal training refresher course.

  • Start writing focals.

  • People Bill's on sabbatical now till August 13. Alec - on vacation Monday, June 11th at a wedding in Boston

  • Samir - Sabbatical planned for July 4, 2001 - August 20, 2001

  • Progress/Accomplishments Alec Flett 82277 - too many allocations near mIgnorePrefixes 83490 - autocomplete needs a non-allocating accessor 85364 - nsGlobalHistory::AutoCompleteEnumerator::IsResult should use nsAutoString 71903 - Search History returns all possible results, instead of just the result for the defined search parameter. 81258 - Deleting history items doesn't remove them from ui immediately 83366 - -turbo mode: alternative 3-pane mail view setting is ignoredBen Goodger got initial extension part of Content Pack UI (65251) checked in (not part of build), awaiting sr in bug for the rest of the patch which adds theUI and turns it all on. modified jbetak's second content pack patch to make it work as an extension, and addressed some other issues (replaced usages of javascript:alert with nsIPromptService::alert) Feedback from 6.1 is encouraging (both from news sites and from a friend of mine who's trying it). Bill Law Checked in fix for bugs 81712, et al (turbo mode bugs). Checked in fix for bug 82584 (don't use Win32 registry "(don't) always ask me" setting). Checked in fix for bug 58848 (Win32 desktop integration snafus). Checked in fix for bug 79862 (accelerator keys on helper app dialog). Coded up fix for bug 85984 (turbo mode system tray icon). Blake Ross Checked in: 72801 - Wrong URL dragged from browser window on second drag when links are close together

  • 44371 - Link titles (and more) lost when dragging URLs to composition window

  • 65540 - Textarea scrollbars have wrong cursor

  • Other: Responded to lots of users who submitted PR1 feedback, and received many kind/grateful responses. Having just one person responsiblefor doing this full time around release would really boost our PR and usersatisfaction. I'm compiling a list of top xpapps complaints that Ithink we should focus on for next release.

  • Went through performance bugs, added [nav+perf] to bugs that directly impact xpapps or need fixing on the xpapps side. Going to start digging into these next week.

  • Motivated by the great response to 6.1. cnet user feedback just keeps going up - 72% for windows, 80% for mac, 87% for linux.

  • Matt Fisher Checked in81093 Prefs now don't uncheck toolbar buttons 82041 Clicking on search button now keeps pref for search engine Bugs worked on24106 Have patch posted to make sure item does not move out of customize area 5188 have pach for pulling Altavista. Need to pull 2 other search engines Paul Chen 79837 Downloading dialog not correctly filled in sometimes [+ Set Default button broken]. Checked in 06/13. 52930 Sidebar panels localization not displayed. Got sr=alecf on Friday. Hopefully get a= onMonday so that I can check this in. 32801 Mac: can run 2 copies of Mozilla at the same time . Latest patch posted on 06/12. Still waitingfor r= and sr= Samir Gehani New basic search mode feature first cut completed.

  • Completed basic search mode with menu popup to select engine in ns-only first cut in sidebar.

  • Commenced work on new nav window popping up even when profile manager is up and mozilla is run for second time.

  • Completed a couple of peer reviews.

  • Assisted Ian in commercial build work for help system.

  • Steve Morse 83625: session cookies no longer work. serious regression which is present in beta release 81593: inefficient use of strlen. reviewed previously, fell into a crack 84224: continually trying to open cookperm.txt when it doesn't exist. regression occurred when cookie interface was overhauled 84834: put password in the password-manager API. change requested by mailnews team 83936: cookie test being built when they weren't supposed to be. reporter provided patch Viswanath Ramachandran Helped resolve the L12y of Form Manager. Final decision is that ability to hide some panels using prefs is sufficient for this release.

  • Started collecting supplemental focal feedback / peer reviews.

  • Attended Turbo Mode meeting on Friday.

  • Necko/Imagelib June 18 Submitted by Gagan Saksena SummarygaganLots of bugs getting fixed.Triaging continues.Laptop upgrades much needed...HighlightsdarinFixed bug 80419 "http should reclaim connections immediately"Fixed bug 73392 "ad blocking hosts file prevents page load"Checked in havill's patch for bug 80020 "Accept-Language, Accept-Charset format error"Fixed bug 75709 "expires header not honored"Fixed bug 35956 "file extension not changed but gzipped files expanded when saving"Fixed bug 84572 "networking deadlock while posing security UI and closing window"Fixed bug 83960 "HTTP/1.0 servers can legally send invalid Content-Length headers"Fixed bug 85822 "crash in nsHttpTransaction::Cancel"triaged bugsneetiInvestigated closed bugs 74647, 80601, 82948, 85083, 82948.Investigated reassigned bugs 84592, 85396, 85020, 86320, 86133.Working on bug 20838.Triaged bugs.gordonFixed bugs (57463, 57881, 82009, 85025, 84817, 85802)Submitted patches for bugs (64857)designed disk cache stream wrappers with Darin.dougtFixing the https/plugin problems.Fixed topcrashers related to threadpool assumptions about runnables.Large Standard URL Parser changes coming along. Seeking reviewers.pavlovfixed bug 38322 so that editor will be able to force the reload of an image from its source.close to being able to remove the old imagelib. (bug 78690)did lots of bug triaginggaganattended the promotion review meetinghelped triage bugs for the whole teamcompleted focal review (for self at least)Fixed bug 72805Lowlightsdarinvideo card died on my linux boxdougtRetooling api's. :-/gaganneed jrgm's page loader tests outside the firewallPlans for next weekdarinfix more bugs for 0.9.2triage bugsdougtland api changes.finish up with plugin hackin.fix my p1/p2 0.9.2 bugs.pavlovContinue working on 78690hit zero 0.9.2 bugsIssuesdougtHardware. My notebook sucks. Hard powers off at least once a day. I am worried about lossing data. Does anyone have a scsi pcmcia card? XML/DOM/Security June 19 Submitted by Nisheeth Ranjan SummaryThe XML/DOM team has 1 PDT+ bug assigned to Harish. We are givingit top priority.

  • AccomplishedheikkiChecked in fix for bug 83557 on the trunk, fix xmlextras for embedding.If there are going to be any embedding builds from 0.9.1 branch this needsto be taken into account.

  • Worked on 75700, we treat xmlns="" wrong, which affects CSS test resultsfor example, have fix.

  • Worked on 84136, made fix which removes strong ref to parser from XML document.This did not yet fix the leak, though. Analyzed and worked on this somemore with harishd.

  • Worked on 64945, default view for XML without style.

  • Code reviews for harishd.

  • harishdWas back from vacation on Wednesday.

  • Worked on bug 82971 ( have *a* fix in hand ).

  • Worked on bug 84136 ( MLK - no fix yet ).

  • Spent most of last week reviewing code for kmcclusk, and vidur.

  • jstSpent monday through wednesday at a DOM f2f meeting in Portland, OR.

  • Cought up on email after being away on vacation/DOM meeting for almosttwo weeks.

  • Worked on exposing DOM JS object constructors and prototypes in mozilla.

  • Superreviewed a bunch of random changes.

  • petervChecked in fix for bug 84564 (Content-Style-Type no longer working)

  • Checked in fix for bug 83612 (Correct/cleanup style loading code in content)

  • Worked on remaining 0.9.2 bugs. I started work on redesigning output generationin Transformiix to fix several bugs at once, but this means I'll probablyneed to postpone two of my 0.9.2 bugs

  • Did some reviews

  • jokiTriaged 0.9.2 bugs

  • Set up new machine and build environments on new machine

  • Continued investigation of crasher bugs

  • mstoltzFixed a regression caused by the CheckLoadURI policy

  • Tested signed scripts on all platforms - some issues remain

  • Working on a fix for a serious security bug discovered by Jesse (86019)

  • jesseFiled security bugs: 86019*, 86028, 86147*, and reopened 77485 (* = netscapeconfidential as of 6/15).

  • Filed other bugs: 85092 (invalid), 85828, 85831, 85832, 85833.

  • Fixed and awaiting review: menu/keyboard bug 79898.

  • guninskiTried XUL attacks.

  • Tried Buffer overflow attacks.

  • nisheethMet Mitch Stoltz and got a brain dump of security.

  • Attended the focal performance review meeting

  • Wrote peer reviews

  • Completed self assessment

  • UnplannedLowlightsEscalationsPlans for the next weekheikkiCheck in fixes in my tree.

  • Work on 64945.

  • Bug triage.

  • harishdWork on bug 84136, and 49539.

  • Peer reviews.

  • Triage my untargeted bugs.

  • Attend embedding staff meeting.

  • jstContinue working on my mozilla0.9.2 work (i.e. exposing DOM JS constructorsand prototypes in mozilla)...

  • petervWork on/check in fixes for my 0.9.2 bugs

  • Work on output generation redesign (and maybe finish it)

  • Help to try to get lexer/parser patch in for 0.9.2

  • jokiWork on fixing bugs in 0.9.2 buglist to bring down bugcount

  • Continue triage

  • mstoltzCheck in several security fixes

  • Begin pre-RTM security reviews

  • jesseWork with Mitch to find out why we're having so much trouble using signtoolto sign scripts.

  • Update configurable security policy docs (81467).

  • Continue trying to figure out what's happening in 59748, typing javascript:to access JS console doesn't work.

  • Editor June 19 Submitted by Beth Epperson Summary the team resolved 51 bugs for the time period 10 June 2001 - 16 June 2001

  • there are 14 moz0.9.2 open bugs at this time (8 are fixed and in thereview phase or waiting for the tree to open)

  • Akkana Akkana is on sabbatical and is scheduled to return on 25 June

  • Anthony checked in fixes for: 83363, 83743, 84417

  • fixed: 84417, 73605 ate dogfood

  • triaged bugs

  • have one 0.9.2 bug left (57913) but I cannot get middlemouse button paste to work on windows which has made this bug difficult for me to work on. I have ended up working on why middlemouse paste button DOESN'T work on windows

  • Beth vacation Wednesday through Monday

  • did triage the 9.2 bug list and unconfirmed bug list

  • gathered additional data for focals

  • Charley 0.9.2 bugs fixed and checked in: 78351 Make Image Properties dialog preview image work and get natural width and height information. This was a real bear! After lots of dependencies and new bugs found with image cache and network code, I finally got a solution that completely works. This bug is now only dependent on Pavlov checking inhis fix for 82431, and a null-pointer check problem (85981) I actually fixed the later, but DougT claims that pointer (nsIURI::mScheme) should never be null. He will follow up to make what they think is the "right fix." I suggestedat least putting in some assertion code.

  • 71743, 71973, 71027, 73167. All of the new Advanced Properties Editor code finished. Thanks to Kin and Kathy for their heroic efforts to test and review this work.

  • 85254, 77427. Minor UI fixes in Table dialogs.

  • Did lots of talking with other engineers while in M.V. on Wednesday to be sure issues in other groups received the proper attention. Primarily for bugs 82431, 82563, and 84879. These need to be monitored to be sure they are fixed in 0.9.2 timeframe.

  • Last minute work on focal reviews

  • Daniel on vacation

  • Joe Beth left a list of priority bugs. Also added to this list arebugs she left at 092 and didn't mention on her list. Here is theirstatus: 52675 - pushed off

  • 54539 - fix in hand; not yet checked in

  • 57477 - fixed; checked in

  • 54520 - fix in hand; not yet checked in

  • 57989 - fixed; checked in

  • 62577 - fixed; checked in

  • 66579 - fixed; checked in

  • 62347 - fix in hand; not yet checked in

  • 69320 - in progress

  • 74722 - in progress

  • 68038 - fixed; checked in

  • 60867 - fix in hand; not yet checked in

  • 83501 - in progress

  • 69760 - fixed; checked in

  • 61232 - fix in hand; not yet checked in

  • 82421 - in progress

  • 68038 - pushed off

  • Kathy lots of testing and code reviews for Charley

  • lots of testing and a code review for Joe

  • filed bugs

  • triage team bug list

  • discussed bug 68167 (escaping of certain characters in JS handlerattributes) with Beth and Kin and came up with a patch; e-mailed jst buthaven't heard from him yet. I think there is a bug in the parser (howit handles JS attributes with entities) but will clarify with Beth beforefiling a bug.

  • got a cable modem and firewall installed (hurray!!!!!)

  • got my SERA pin reset

  • Kin Lots of code reviews for people in and outside our group.

  • Helped cmanske test and review various revisions of his fixes for Advanced Edit.

  • Various discussions with several people on how to approach/fix problems they are working on.

  • Checked in fixes for 83946 and 62577 (fixes 3 separate list bugs).

  • Triaged and did some preliminary debugging for various editor bugs.

  • Traded some email with people that are using the TransactionManager for an external project.

  • Currently helping jfrancis out with some of his 0.9.2 bugs.

  • Mike no status report

  • Simon Fixed bug 85514 -- serious synchronization issue in Mac NSPR causeddownload stalls and other network badness.

  • Fixed bug 82474; fix debug builds so that the console doesn't getthe way of command dispatching.

  • Did team focal reviews.

  • Code reviews.

  • Project Issues no major complaints this week

  • Time-offThere is lots happening this summer, here is the current schedule for the editor team: Beth: 13 June - 18 June, and 25 June

  • Charley: 18 June - 2 July

  • Daniel: 4 June - 22 June

  • Joe: sabbatical 9 July - 17 August

  • Kathy: 2 July - 6 July

  • Kin: 28 June - 6 July

  • Mike: 4 & 5 June, 2 August - 10 August, sabbatical 20 August - 1 October

  • Simon: 16 July - 31 July

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