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Your new M4 Mac can pack even more power than before


  • Apple’s High Power Mode increases cooling to enable better performance
  • It’s now available on more Macs than before
  • Limited testing suggests its benefits may not be huge

We already know that the M4 Pro chip in Apple’s latest Macs is impressively powerful; after all, it’s blowing holes in the Mac Pro’s M2 Ultra. But you can get even more out of this little chip with a quick software tweak, and it’s now available on a wider range of Macs than ever before.

The setting in macOS Sequoia, called High Power Mode, increases your Mac’s fans, helping to cool the machine better. This allows it to maximize its performance, which is especially useful for long-term workloads such as video rendering and color correction, where improved cooling and performance can noticeably reduce operating times.

High Power mode is available on the MacBook Pro and Mac mini, provided they are equipped with the M4 Pro chip. This is an improvement over the previous situation, where only the MacBook Pro with M3 Max, M2 Max or M1 Max chips could use this setting. It means that not only has the barrier to entry been lowered in terms of which chip you need, but it’s now available for the first time in the Mac mini.

Mac Mini M4

(Image credit: Apple)

However, you may not notice that High Power mode offers a huge performance boost. Ars Technica tested the setting in the Mac mini, where reviewer Andrew Cunningham said the gain was “essentially negligible” but was still accompanied by “significantly more fan noise.”

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