That second phrase did not feel too ChatGPT-like to me. The throttling behavior really does feel quite extreme and unprecedented as described, more typical of a mobile phone than a traditional PC. By analogy, even the crappiest and cheapest mobile PCs will not go as far as throttling the processor from a nominal 3.6 GHz to 480 MHz after five minutes of CPU-intensive load.
Yes. That was the clearest and most sensible part of the article. It literally falls off a (figurative) cliff and that's exactly what a writer would have pointed out 30 years ago.
