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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by gambiting on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:31PM (#20397382)
The current Air might as well be fanless. The fan is nowhere near the heatsink on the CPU, once it finally kicks in it only pushes the air through the case, its impact on the CPU temperatures is minimal.
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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by saurik on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:47PM (#20397512)
"It has a fan, but the fan is useless" is worse than merely having a useful fan :/.
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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by Marsymars on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:56PM (#20397586)
Also worse than no fan, since you could fill that space with battery if there wasn't a fan there.
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Re:Apple Updates Air, Pro Laptops, Kills Off the MacBook by gambiting on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @04:07AM (#20400069)
Yep. The only saving grace is that it takes a loong time for the fan to finally kick in, it's pretty much impossible to make it run with anything less than 100% CPU load, and even then it takes a few minutes to kick in.
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