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It’s the reason I love my M1 air so much. No fan and barely any heat. My company issued HP zbook for Software Engineers is very loud and pushes lots of heat ou

by wil421 3y ago

It’s the reason I love my M1 air so much. No fan and barely any heat. My company issued HP zbook for Software Engineers is very loud and pushes lots of heat out. I would love a quieter alternative for large Windows laptops.

CharlesW 3y ago
FWIW, Windows on Parallels is great on my M1 Air.
rimunroe 3y ago
I'm looking forward to using one of those. My mom's old Dell laptop died and she finally made the switch to the new MacBook Air. It seems fantastic. I had the 2015 MacBook. It was an oddball model which afaik never got a refresh: it didn't have any active cooling, had a 12" screen, a single USB-C port and a headphone jack, and was the and the first version of the terrible butterfly keyboard (which had to get replaced three times over its life!). I got it through my company for half price after an executive had gotten it for travel but couldn't get adapters to reliably work for presentations. The main things I remember about it (other than the terrible keyboard) were that it was delightfully portable and quiet, and that I had to consider the weather when I was deciding what to do. I haven't lived in a place with air conditioning in years, and in the summers I'd sometimes have to stop my chronic multitasking and decide if I wanted to browse/run other programs, or stream videos. On the rare occasions I'd do some programming and needed to compile something, I'd open the laptop halfway and put it on its side with a fan pointed at the back. I also put it on an ice pack on more than one occasion. I've always been surprised that condensation didn't kill it. The new Airs seems like they solidly solve all of my complaints with the 2015 MacBook, which means I might finally have found a computer which can make me as happy as my Fujitsu LifeBook P1510D did. My only quibble might be that it's still a smidge larger than what I'd like, but it's a minor quibble.
kitsunesoba 3y ago
Yeah, reducing heat output and fan noise should be more of a goal for mainstream PC vendors. My ThinkPad X1 Nano is a lovely machine… super lightweight, tiny, solidly built, decent keyboard and screen, but it starts getting hot and spins up its fan with the slightest hint of work. I have to keep its CPU throttled by putting it in power saver mode to keep its fan off (most of the time), which brings major performance tradeoffs.

by wil421 3y ago

CharlesW 3y ago

FWIW, Windows on Parallels is great on my M1 Air.

rimunroe 3y ago

I'm looking forward to using one of those. My mom's old Dell laptop died and she finally made the switch to the new MacBook Air. It seems fantastic. I had the 2015 MacBook. It was an oddball model which afaik never got a refresh: it didn't have any active cooling, had a 12" screen, a single USB-C port and a headphone jack, and was the and the first version of the terrible butterfly keyboard (which had to get replaced three times over its life!). I got it through my company for half price after an executive had gotten it for travel but couldn't get adapters to reliably work for presentations. The main things I remember about it (other than the terrible keyboard) were that it was delightfully portable and quiet, and that I had to consider the weather when I was deciding what to do. I haven't lived in a place with air conditioning in years, and in the summers I'd sometimes have to stop my chronic multitasking and decide if I wanted to browse/run other programs, or stream videos. On the rare occasions I'd do some programming and needed to compile something, I'd open the laptop halfway and put it on its side with a fan pointed at the back. I also put it on an ice pack on more than one occasion. I've always been surprised that condensation didn't kill it. The new Airs seems like they solidly solve all of my complaints with the 2015 MacBook, which means I might finally have found a computer which can make me as happy as my Fujitsu LifeBook P1510D did. My only quibble might be that it's still a smidge larger than what I'd like, but it's a minor quibble.

kitsunesoba 3y ago

Yeah, reducing heat output and fan noise should be more of a goal for mainstream PC vendors. My ThinkPad X1 Nano is a lovely machine… super lightweight, tiny, solidly built, decent keyboard and screen, but it starts getting hot and spins up its fan with the slightest hint of work. I have to keep its CPU throttled by putting it in power saver mode to keep its fan off (most of the time), which brings major performance tradeoffs.