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It seems it would be really performance limiting to use the same board from the macbook air, even with a much better active heatsink/fan...
by walrus01 6y ago
It seems it would be really performance limiting to use the same board from the macbook air, even with a much better active heatsink/fan...
- cptskippy 6y agoWhat about the board itself would limit performance? They're all using the same chip.
- walrus01 6y agoIf it's exactly the same board and layout, an ultra slim laptop motherboard will be designed for different thermal limits than a desktop board. Also a laptop board will have its shape and orientation optimized for a very thin heatpipe + flat blower cooling system, something in a desktop might be different. Take for instance the same CPU used in a gaming laptop or in an Intel NUC/tiny box shaped PC, the heatsink/fan arrangement will be unique between the two. But then again this new imac is so thin it might as well be a laptop.
- cptskippy 6y agoBut we're talking about Mac's, these are all design to be svelte. The Air has passive cooling, the rest have minimal cooling.