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And you forgot the best part: it is completely silent.
by wiseowise 5mo ago
And you forgot the best part: it is completely silent.
- epistasis 5mo agoI did forget, because a silent laptop is now table stakes for me. I can't imagine buying anything with an audible fan again. I'd rather stay on the hardware I have.
- bee_rider 5mo agoI wouldn’t want a fan on a Windows laptop, for sure. On Linux they are fine as long as the lowest speed is “off,” since they’ll only kick on if you explicitly ask the computer to do something crunchy.
- teaearlgraycold 5mo agoI appreciate a light whoosh from a laptop.
- HerbManic 5mo agoI have no problem if it is the occasional spin up, but it is rare to have system that can do just that. My Thinkpads seem to only use the fan occasionally but then my work load is very light.
- overfeed 5mo agoNo fan = leaving performance on the table due to lacking thermal headroom.
- wiseowise 5mo agoIf I wanted maximum performance I would use a desktop.
- __patchbit__ 5mo agoWhen the M5 Mac Mini Pro 64GB RAM and more release, I'd like to seamlessly mesh the Neo to the Mini the way Plan 9 imagined. And, a payment would be all that you need to expand on the cloud. Happy to see Gerbil Scheme occupies 4GB RAM use on the Neo while building.
- kergonath 5mo agoSo what? The right amount of performance is what allows you to do what you have to do quickly enough. Anything beyond that is useless. It’s not like you have to use 100% of the theoretical performance of a computer all the time.
- refactor_master 5mo agoStill baffles the mind that Apple solved this issue some 20+ years ago, and others _still_ haven't. I remember being basically surrounded by jet engines running Word in school. A few years ago in an old job I got a monster-specced Dell laptop, and it would still roar if I opened anything. I had to pull all the nerf tricks through the BIOS to at least keep it somewhat tolerable in low-load scenarios (i.e. most of the workday).
- wqaatwt 5mo ago> Apple solved this issue some 20+ years ago All the i7/i9 Macbook pros that I used back in the day were obnoxiously load. Even when not under particularly heavy load.
- prawn 5mo agoEven a 2015 MacBook for me ran the fan hard almost constantly. First Apple silicon MacBook was silent. Now using an M1 Max MBP from 2021 and external hard drives are the thing making noise on my desk.
- heelix 5mo agoAgree. The i9 went full fans as soon as I fired up docker. The arm based macs are an entirely different beast.
- AnthonyMouse 5mo agoA fanless CPU needs more, lower-clocked cores to have the same multi-thread performance as an actively cooled CPU with fewer cores, and higher core count CPUs cost more. So you only get a fanless CPU if you either a) get a low multi-thread performance CPU or b) pay for a high-performance CPU and then get only medium performance out of it by running it fanless. Notice that even Apple's highest performance laptops have fans; fanless there isn't a thing. But Apple's fanless machines do b) and then they just charge you the premium. There are a few fanless PC laptops that do the same thing, but most people don't want that, because they'd rather save a significant amount of money by getting the same performance out of a less expensive CPU with a fan.
- tcoff91 5mo agoThe quiet isn’t even the best part of passive cooling. It’s that the cooling will never stop working due to dust clogging fans.