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Exactly. The M1 is awesome not because of raw horsepower, but because of efficiency.

Aperocky 5y ago
I love my fanless M1 Air primarily because it's fanless. The 14" pro looks great, but can anyone using it tell me whether the fan ever turns on?
- thebean11 5y ago
  I have the 16" which has slightly better thermals. When it's in clamshell mode and I'm doing heavy stuff (maybe a zoom call + big compilation + running a few local services) I can feel a tiny bit of warm air coming out. Can't hear anything though.
  - dghlsakjg 5y ago
    Great to hear! I have an i7 16" intel and maxing out a single core will spin up the fans in short order. Maxing out multiple cores is kind of absurd how much noise and throttling happens
- Gigachad 5y ago
  I have the 2020 pro and I have only heard the fan once and that was when a compile bugged out and got stuck. Otherwise I don’t even hear the fan while gaming.
- avidphantasm 5y ago
  I have had the 14” since October and I have never heard the fan. For example, I have two 4K external displays at home and the fan on my i9 MBP was almost always on when the displays were connected (especially when using video conferencing). Not so with the 14”. Love this machine, better in every way.
- mdasen 5y ago
  I thought that my fan never turned on. I was curious so I installed a fan meter (https://github.com/exelban/stats https://github.com/exelban/stats). If I'm playing a game and running a windows VM, it does sometimes turn on around 2,000 RPMs. I can't hear it even if I put my ear up to the vents. So, it doesn't seem to turn on almost ever for me. I've had it for over a month and I've never heard it turn on. I've seen it turn on (via the menu-bar monitor) and tried to listen for the fan and just can't hear anything. I'll be using it with the vents covered by a blanket and it doesn't seem to notice. It's one of the reasons that I love this machine. My 2020 Intel MacBook Pro would run those fans all the time making lots of noise. A web page would randomly start using a lot of CPU and my battery would drain, things would slow down, and the fans would sing their song. The magic of my new M1 Pro machine is that nothing seems to phase it. It's not like I had a crappy old laptop for comparison. I had a 2.4GHz Intel MacBook Pro that was over $2,000. I was wondering if the fan would go on and it might go on more if you're doing a lot of high-end rendering, but it doesn't for my usage. IntelliJ, Windows VMs, whatever, it mostly stays off and sometimes turns on, but low enough that I can't hear it even with my ear to the vents. It feels magical.
- ostenning 5y ago
  Only time it turns on is when ive been playing Baldurs Gate 3 on extreme settings on my duvet for multiple hours.
- fold3 5y ago
  I have the 14 pro and it is spookily quiet. Even when being at full load. Though perhaps after many years of dust accumulation this may change over the air. However I watched some tests of the M1 max on YouTube and it does seems like this one can get noisy

I love my fanless M1 Air primarily because it's fanless. The 14" pro looks great, but can anyone using it tell me whether the fan ever turns on?

thebean11 5y ago
I have the 16" which has slightly better thermals. When it's in clamshell mode and I'm doing heavy stuff (maybe a zoom call + big compilation + running a few local services) I can feel a tiny bit of warm air coming out. Can't hear anything though.
- dghlsakjg 5y ago
  Great to hear! I have an i7 16" intel and maxing out a single core will spin up the fans in short order. Maxing out multiple cores is kind of absurd how much noise and throttling happens
Gigachad 5y ago
I have the 2020 pro and I have only heard the fan once and that was when a compile bugged out and got stuck. Otherwise I don’t even hear the fan while gaming.
avidphantasm 5y ago
I have had the 14” since October and I have never heard the fan. For example, I have two 4K external displays at home and the fan on my i9 MBP was almost always on when the displays were connected (especially when using video conferencing). Not so with the 14”. Love this machine, better in every way.
mdasen 5y ago
I thought that my fan never turned on. I was curious so I installed a fan meter (https://github.com/exelban/stats https://github.com/exelban/stats). If I'm playing a game and running a windows VM, it does sometimes turn on around 2,000 RPMs. I can't hear it even if I put my ear up to the vents. So, it doesn't seem to turn on almost ever for me. I've had it for over a month and I've never heard it turn on. I've seen it turn on (via the menu-bar monitor) and tried to listen for the fan and just can't hear anything. I'll be using it with the vents covered by a blanket and it doesn't seem to notice. It's one of the reasons that I love this machine. My 2020 Intel MacBook Pro would run those fans all the time making lots of noise. A web page would randomly start using a lot of CPU and my battery would drain, things would slow down, and the fans would sing their song. The magic of my new M1 Pro machine is that nothing seems to phase it. It's not like I had a crappy old laptop for comparison. I had a 2.4GHz Intel MacBook Pro that was over $2,000. I was wondering if the fan would go on and it might go on more if you're doing a lot of high-end rendering, but it doesn't for my usage. IntelliJ, Windows VMs, whatever, it mostly stays off and sometimes turns on, but low enough that I can't hear it even with my ear to the vents. It feels magical.
ostenning 5y ago
Only time it turns on is when ive been playing Baldurs Gate 3 on extreme settings on my duvet for multiple hours.
fold3 5y ago
I have the 14 pro and it is spookily quiet. Even when being at full load. Though perhaps after many years of dust accumulation this may change over the air. However I watched some tests of the M1 max on YouTube and it does seems like this one can get noisy