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"The cost/benefit ratio of adding a fan is extremely attractive." Depends on your metric. A fan makes noise, attracts dirt that needs cleaning, needs more spac
by lukan 1y ago
"The cost/benefit ratio of adding a fan is extremely attractive."
Depends on your metric. A fan makes noise, attracts dirt that needs cleaning, needs more space ...
I really love my fanless devices, even though they never will reach the speed of activly cooled ones.
- AnthonyMouse 1y agoSure, and you can still find fanless devices, but then they'll typically be the ones not focused on multi-thread performance. And if you don't care about that, e.g. because you're offloading heavy workloads to a server or you just don't do anything compute heavy, then you can find a lot of fanless offerings with low core counts that are actually quite inexpensive. You can get some fanless Chromebooks for under $200.
- scheme271 1y agoIt's a bit old at this point but the pixel slate chromebooks can be spec'ed with an i7 and 16GB of ram. I think they go for under 200 on ebay and are decent if you don't need compute heavy apps.