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I’m sure most people are willing to pay M2-level premium for a fanless, cool, performant laptop with very long battery life.
by sedatk 4y ago
I’m sure most people are willing to pay M2-level premium for a fanless, cool, performant laptop with very long battery life.
- capableweb 4y agoAs I said elsewhere (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854112 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35854112), if I could chose between a fanless M2 laptop that might throttle, and a M2 laptop with fans that would never throttle, I know for sure what I and many other developers would go for.
- api 4y agoThat’s the MacBook Pro. It pretty much never throttles. You have to really push it to get the fans to do much though.
- tomduncalf 4y agoThe only time I’ve heard the fans on my M1 Max is running ML stuff (Demucs) across every core for several minutes, so the CPU was completely maxed out. Even then it was quiet. Day to day for me it hardly ever gets warm and I never hear the fans.
- midoridensha 4y ago>I’m sure most people are willing to pay M2-level premium for a fanless, cool, performant laptop with very long battery life. But with almost all non-Apple laptops running spyware-laden Windows 11, just how possible is this? Of course, running Linux should show very different performance.