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Apple has been getting trashed lately by developers for how hot and loud their macbooks get. You can tell how much focus they put on cooling in this presentatio
by ibraheemdev 6y ago
Apple has been getting trashed lately by developers for how hot and loud their macbooks get. You can tell how much focus they put on cooling in this presentation. The macbook air literally doesn't even have a fan!
- Ayesh 6y agoIt's not clear if they use the exact same M1 chip in Airs, but I'm pretty sure they run under a very low TDP. iPad A14 runs on 6W TDP.
- nicoburns 6y agoIn the chip part of the presentation they mentioned the Air TDP as being 10W.
- dasKrokodil 6y agoWasn't the latest Intel-based MacBook Air fanless as well?
- waterhouse 6y agoNo; I have one. (Perhaps you're thinking of the 12-inch Macbook, which was fanless, and which they stopped manufacturing a year ago.) And I go to extremes to keep the fan from spinning up: using Turbo Boost Switcher, and/or running a program that repeatedly does the equivalent of "kill -STOP" and "kill -CONT" to a process, hundreds of times per second, to force it to use less CPU.
- dasKrokodil 6y agoAh OK, thanks for the clarification. Yes, the MacBook was the fanless one. I wonder why they stopped making it?
- waterhouse 6y agoPerhaps because they knew they were going to release a fanless 13-inch Macbook Air.