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  "description": "I can run Performance profile all the time ",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-13T06:43:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Although I have plenty of monitors, keyboards, and mice for the purpose, until recently, I rarely got around to docking my laptop — even though I know having multiple monitors is one of the few things that measurably increases productivity.\n\nBefore, when I’ve docked my laptop via a USB-C hub, whether using my laptop’s trackpad and keyboard or an external mouse and keyboard, I’ve put my laptop on the same desk as the monitor, out-of-the-way, in clamshell mode.\n\nThis configuration has some benefits: big high-resolution screen, ergonomics, 104-key keyboard, and single-cable undocking for all peripherals (including Ethernet and USB-C charging).\n\nRecently, I tried **docking the same way, but storing my laptop on its side on the floor beside my desk, and discovered: this is way better!**\n\nNot because I have more desk space to cover with coffee cups and books, but because I can run my in Maximum Performance profile at all times **and I never hear the fans.**\n\nThe difference between different CPU profiles’ performance is substantial. Everything feels sluggish on Quiet, and snappy on Performance, and the timings on localhost show that Performance profile can give objectively faster load times (by ~3x).\n\nI bought a gaming laptop even though I’m not a gamer, because the price-to-performance blew the competition out of the water. The downside, aside from the B-grade aesthetics and build quality, is that even after customizing the fan curves as much as I dared, the fans are _loud._ As one forum user put it, it “sounds like a fighter jet taking off” compiling Rust or running a local LLM.\n\nNow, that doesn’t matter.\n\n****Note:**** this post is part of #100DaysToOffload, a challenge to publish 100 posts in 365 days. These posts are generally shorter and less polished than our normal posts; expect typos and unfiltered thoughts! View more posts in this series.\n\n\n",
  "title": "An unexpected benefit of docking my laptop beside my desk",
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